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"Sahar Okhovat, from the Refugee Council of Australia, says the reported
spending on offshore is less than the true cost because it doesn’t
include additional foreign aid as part of resettlement deals, the cost
of medical care and detention for people evacuated to Australia, and the
significant legal costs and settlements paid to detainees for their
ill-treatment.
“It’s an extraordinarily expensive policy,” Okhovat says. “It’s hard to
grasp when you put it against the scale of displacement globally. It’s
been costing over a billion per year to systemically torture a very
small group of people for a very long time.
“There is no breakdown, no way to see where the money is spent.”
This year the average cost of holding just one person offshore is
significantly more than it would cost to allow everyone remaining in PNG
and Nauru to live in the community in Australia."
Via Muse.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
