Lugares de interés (POIs) del Mapa
0: Perth Immigration Residential Housing
Perth Immigration Residential Housing in Redcliffe, Western Australia holds people who come to Perth for medical attention from other detention facilities. As at 31 January 2012 4 men were held here.
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1: Leonora Detention Centre
Leonora Detention Centre in Western Australia was opened in 2010 to house mainly asylum seeker families. Leonora was a mining camp once but is now a patch of red dirt 830 kilometres from Perth. Various reports from January 2012 stated that 160 unaccompanied minors were held here and were not attending school outside the detention facility. Reports also stated that children had minimal excursions outside.
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2: Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre
Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) is located at North West Point, about 17 kilometres from the main settlement on Christmas Island. This is where 440 men are held (as at 31 January 2012). Phosphate Hill is also a facility for men.
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3: Christmas Island
Christmas Island "Alternative Place of Detention" and Construction Camp is where families and children are held. As at 31 January 2012 133 children were held here.
The Construction Camp is a densely packed collection of demountables known as dongas. These were intended for single occupation but
families of four have been accommodated in them. Children are also accommodated at Compound Charlie.
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4: Villawood & Sydney Immigration Residential Housing
This detention facility holds families and single men. It held 311 men and 64 women as at 31 January 2012.
Sydney Immigration Residential Housing (IRH) is adjacent to the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre. As at 31 January 2012 6 children were detained there.
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5: Darwin
Though we do not have an official figure we're told close to 200 children are detained in Darwin (as at December 2011).
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6: Port Augusta Housing Project
Port Augusta Housing Project. This is a group of demountable buildings surrounded by two fences between which is an electric sensor mat with an alarm system. As at 31 January 2012 14 children were detained here.
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8: Scherger RAAF Base, Weipa
Scherger RAAF Base has received an influx of asylum seekers from Christmas Island (March 2011). Total population as at 31 January 2012 was 283 men.
The facility is designed for 300 single adult males.
Más sobre Scherger RAAF Base, Weipa10: Tanjung Pinang, Indonesia
Most people do not know that Australia funds detention centres in Indonesia. Many people whose boats were sent back from Australia end up in these detention centres. Most people would not want to know. Conditions in such centres are horrendous.
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To read an article about detention in Indonesia see
Crikey.
11: Northern Immigration Detention Centre
Northern Immigration Detention Centre is located at Coonawarra, an outer Darwin suburb and has an operating capacity of 554 people.
As at 31 January 2012 it held 203 men.
Más sobre Northern Immigration Detention Centre12: Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre
Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre originally opened in 1966. The centre can hold up to 100 people.
It holds, as at 31 January 2012, 66 men and 12 women.
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13: Curtin Detention Centre
In January 2012 Curtin was home to 856 men. It has been described as a 'hellhole'. It is terribly isolated: 28 hours by road from Perth and six hours from Port Hedland. Currently no children are imprisoned in Curtin, but those turning 18 may be held there.
Más sobre Curtin Detention Centre14: Inverbrackie
When Inverbrackie was first opened as an immigration detention facility we were informed that it was to meet the needs of families and children. The Children's Commissioners and Guardians Group have stated that little attention had been paid to the health care needs of children within the centre and that the environment is dark and not stimulating. Dr Jon Jureidini, head of child psychiatry at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide has said the children he's treating were the 'saddest kids I've seen'. Dr Jureidini is also treating a suicidal teenager from the centre. At least five children have been born at the centre with the mothers and newborn babies being taken straight back to detention after any essential medical treatment. 373 children are held in mainland Alternative Places of Detention (APODs) like Inverbrackie.
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ChilOut.
Here's a great
article about Inverbrackie.
17: Perth Immigration Detention Centre
Perth Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) was opened in 1981 and is located within the Perth Domestic Airport precinct. As at 31 January 2012 it held 34 men.
Más sobre Perth Immigration Detention Centre18: Mataram Lombok
Mataram Lombok
Jessie Taylor describes this place: "In places like Mataram, Lombok, there are rats running around, very young babies and children in putrid houses."
To read about this place and others in Indonesia go to
Crikey.
19: Wickham Point Immigration Detention Centre
In December 2011 the first group of asylum seekers were taken to the new Wickham Point detention facility, about 35 km from Darwin. When completed, the centre will be the biggest of its kind in Australia, with room to accommodate 1500 people. As at 31 January 2012 it held 450 men.
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