Offshore detention to cost taxpayers $1.2b over three years, says new report

A new report says continuing Australia's offshore immigration detention policy will cost taxpayers a further $1.2 billion over the next three years.

PNG Offshore Detention Centre Source: AAP

The report by Save the Children, GetUp! and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre breaks down the cost of keeping someone in offshore detention to just over $570,000 per person, per year.

Manus Island and Nauru have been described as "medical black holes" before the medevac laws, by advocates. Source: Getty Images