Desperate and vulnerable people are forced to seek ever more dangerous routes to safety
- ‘What about my child?’: children born to refugee parents caught up in harsh offshore policy
- Budget blowouts: offshore processing costs $1.2bn for fewer than 300 people
- Interactive timeline: what happened to every person caught up in Australia’s offshore processing regime
The Pacific Solution was never a solution. Offshore processing is no process at all.
Australia’s vaunted – indeed advertised – policy of physically and forcibly preventing asylum seekers from setting foot in Australia to claim asylum has made the world less safe, not more.
