The new centre near Northam WA, is near full less than six weeks after commissioning. At a cost of $125m. Designed to hold 600 (young and virile) males. NIMBY thank you. Would you want to go to work each day and leave your wife and daughters at home alone in a small rural community with 600 young males with nothing to lose, right there?
The spokeswoman said the facility was designed to be flexible in terms of overflow capacity, but there were other mainland detention options around Australia, including moving asylum seekers into the community.
That's a great message to send to the people smugglers.
