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Then why didn't they show pictures of the children in detention."
The media makes it sound as though the asylum seekers on Nauru are held behind barbed wire fences.
The Nauru Processing Centre was a detention centre from September 2012 until October 2015, when it became an ‘open centre’, giving people greater freedom of movement. Only one asylum seeker has been transferred to a Processing Centre since October 2014. 63 asylum seekers returned to their home countries in 2015 (a reduction from 303 in 2014) and the majority are returning to countries in the Middle East such as Iran, Iraq and Lebanon. Four refugees agreed to depart Nauru in June 2015 to be settled in Cambodia. It is my understanding that these people have been assessed as not being genuine refugees.
