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Criticism from residents and former detainees as PM visits

Scott Morrison tours the North West Point Detention Center on Christmas Island

Scott Morrison tours the North West Point Detention Center on Christmas Island. Source: AAP

There’s been an unhappy response to Scott Morrison’s visit to the Christmas Island Detention Centre, the first sitting Australian Prime Minister to do so. He was inspecting the immigration detention facility after the government’s announcement it would send sick asylum seekers from Nauru or Manus Island there for medical treatment, rather than mainland Australia.


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There’s been an unhappy response to Scott Morrison’s visit to the Christmas Island Detention Centre, the first sitting Australian Prime Minister to do so. He was inspecting the immigration detention facility after the government’s announcement it would send sick asylum seekers from Nauru or Manus Island there for medical treatment, rather than mainland Australia.



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