Budget immigration costs: Australia will spend almost $3.4m for each person in offshore detention - News Triggers

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Budget immigration costs: Australia will spend almost $3.4m for each person in offshore detention

Daily cost to taxpayers is $9,305 for each of the 239 people now held on Nauru or in Papua New Guinea

Australia will spend nearly $812m on its offshore immigration processing system next year – just under $3.4m for each of the 239 people now held on Nauru or in Papua New Guinea.

On the figures presented in Tuesday’s budget, it costs Australian taxpayers $9,305 every day for each person held offshore.

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3vZKI1H

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