New Directions in Detention - Restoring Integrity to Australia’s Immigration System
Source: Australia. Minister for Immigration and Citizenship.
Senator Chris Evans delivered this speech to Australia's Immigration System about detention policy and processing arrangements for offshore entry people on 29 July 2008. policy. The current policy is being progressively updated.
"The treatment of asylum seekers has been controversial in Australian political debate for many years. The length and conditions of their detention has been a particular focus of criticism. The Rudd Labor Government was elected on a platform that included a commitment to reform and a more humane treatment of those seeking our protection. We quickly ended the Pacific Solution – closing the offshore processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island. We abolished temporary protection visas – the symbol of the former government’s continued punishment of those found to be owed our protection."