Where is detention centre christmas island

They were transferred to community detention in Perth in June after the youngest child became severely ill and needed to be medevaced to a hospital in Perth. In August , the Australian Government announced that it would re-open the North West Point Immigration Detention Centre in Christmas Island to manage the surge in population of people in detention.

The first group of people were transferred two weeks after the announcement. By 31 August , people were in that Immigration Detention Centre. According to the Department, APODs can be hospitals, hotel accommodation, aged-care facilities, or mental health in-patient facilities. In December , people detained in Mantra hotel were moved to Park hotel. In January around 68 people were released from detention facilities in Melbourne Park hotel and Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation. Contact Information.

Facility type. Category Filter Administrative Type Immigration detention centre. Operating Period. Year of Entry Year of Entry Year Ceased Center Status.

Status In use. Name Adult women. Name Adult men. Christmas Island is like a prototype of a model of extreme surveillance and oppression.

Placement on Christmas Island seems arbitrary and may be indeed being used as a tactic to instil fear and therefore control in onshore centres. Fear of being taken out in the night and sent to Christmas Island is spreading through the onshore camps. Most of all there is no monitoring or independent scrutiny of this isolated camp. Since we left more information has come to light that creates even greater concern for the physical and mental survival of the men sent there.

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Christmas Island Detention Centre. Introduction On Christmas Island, Pamela Curr and Sr Brigid Arthur found an environment of fear and physical violence where men seeking asylum face ongoing mental trauma and isolation, all while under the direct care of the Australian Government. Process- Getting in We had pre-arranged booked visits to 14 men, some known to us and some who requested a visit when they heard from friends that we were coming. Security Entrance to every area required an officer to press buttons to alert the unseen central controllers to open the heavy metal doors.

Two officers on central watch control cameras, check and unlock over doors. The stories of the various ways the men came to be on Christmas Island are illuminating: One man arrived in Australia by air 18 days before being sent to NWPIDC and before being able to see a lawyer and file an application.

DIBP were unable to get permission from his country to send him back around ten months back. He had no criminal record and it was unclear on what grounds he continued to be detained. Another man had been flown back to his country but they refused an entry visa to the Serco Guards accompanying him and returned them all to Australia. A few men were stateless and had no country to return to. Another man had arrived as an unaccompanied child and was redetained when he turned 18 years.

A number of men had been released from detention on Bridging visas with no work rights or access to income. Two men have been detained on CI since they arrived, one left for ten days only to go to hospital. After he was hospitalised he was transferred to the mainland and then released.

Another young man was clearly intellectually disabled. He could not maintain a coherent thought pattern. He said that he had been punished in White 1 thirteen times. He clearly had no insight or ability to be compliant in order to avoid White 1. Another man thought that he was taken by mistake as a man of the same first name had been threatened with CI but not taken. Some men had left behind wives, girlfriends and children and other family members in the cities in which they were detained.

White 1 is the isolation area. One man told how they took his clothes away and turned up the air-conditioning to very cold. Comments from men are documented below One man said that he had seen no visitor for two years.

The men were courteous and distressingly grateful. Some men were shaking and clearly unwell. Others were cowed and scared, speaking in a low voice so as not to be heard by Serco staff. Men asked why am I here with criminals. Asked what impact this has had on her relationship with Nades, Priya says she would like to answer the question. Here there is no one. The two young girls have experienced several birthdays in detention, and separation from their only friend — a young Vietnamese toddler, Isabella, who was born in the Melbourne detention centre where the family has spent the last couple of years.

On Christmas Island her daughters play with leftover broken toys from when children were last detained there. They socialise a little with local children, but their time is restricted, and during school holidays they are not free to leave the centre. Priya says she has been told that is for insurance reasons. It is now home to four refugees and staff. As a refugee detained indefinitely by Australia, I wish you a happy new year.