As of today, asylum seekers who come here by boat without a visa will never be settled in Australia.
If that were true, then why is Rudd building new detention centres in Australia?
The Federal Government has set aside tens of millions of dollars for a new immigration detention centre in the Hunter region of New South Wales.
The Government used yesterday’s budget update to allocate $43 million for a new detention centre at Singleton. It says the plan is to potentially house more than 1,000 asylum seekers at the Defence Force base there.
It has also allocated almost $90 million to eventually accommodate up to 1,000 people at Blaydin Point near Darwin.
