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‘People are crying and begging’: the human cost of forced relocations in immigration detention
Publisher
Asylum seekers
Government accountability
Government expenditure
Immigration detention
Ministerial conduct
Refugees
Australia
Description
Between July 2018 and August 2019, the Home Affairs Department spent $6.1m flying refugees, asylum seekers and other immigration detainees around Australia.
This figure includes $5.7 million for charter flights and $400,000 for commercial flights with airlines like Qantas. It does not include the cost of keeping planes on standby and transporting staff who accompany detainees. Neither does it include the cost of transporting detainees by road.
Details of these and other expenses have led Labor to ask why minister Peter Dutton’s departmental costs continue to rise. Given revelations the government spent $26.8 million reopening Christmas Island detention centre to hold a single family last year, this is a pressing question.
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The Conversation Media Group 2020
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
7 Mar 2020
