What is the current policy?
The
government has made it clear that indefinite offshore detention will continue,
and that the approximately 800 men and women detainees will remain on Nauru and
Manus island. None of them will ever be resettled in Australia. The New Zealand
government’s offer to take 150 refugees a year from Manus and Nauru has been
rejected. The agreement to resettle refugees in the US is moving at a glacial
pace, and the Trump administration is reluctant to accept refugees from a
number of countries, including Iranians, Somalis, Syrians and Iraqis.
