AAP General News (Australia)
04-18-2010
Fed: Curtin Air Base reopened to hold asylum seekers=3
Meanwhile, more asylum seekers would be moved off Christmas Island to other detention
centres on the mainland to ease overcrowding at the northwest facility.
"We will be moving some single males on a positive pathway to the immigration centre
in Darwin," Senator Evans said.
"We're also moving off the island a group of unaccompanied minors - they'll be going
to the immigration facility at Port Augusta (South Australia)."
Senator Evans said "a couple of hundred or so" people would be moved off Christmas
Island "in the next week or two".
Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers moved to Curtin would remain there until the current
suspension of their claims was reviewed, according to Senator Evans, who did not rule
out them being granted refugee status later.
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