Offshore detention costs taxpayers up to $573,000 each person a year, report finds

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At What Cost report shows offshore processing will cost $1.2bn over three years as Jacqui Lambie tosses up whether to support medevac repeal

Offshore detention costs Australian taxpayers as much as $573,000 a person each year, according to a report from advocacy groups released as the independent senator Jacqui Lambie weighed up whether to support the repeal of medevac laws.

 

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Just wondering what the actual costs are. Here's a suggestion. Buy a glamorous hotel with plenty of staff and top rate food. Don't let the regugees out and save billions of dollars.

Tell them they can stay if they can swim to the mainland, problem solved 👍

What? Seems like that would buy a lot of national health insurance.

Holy... shhhiii

Cheaper to ‘lock them up’ in a QLD resort.

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