The government has flown several more asylum-seeker families from Nauru to Adelaide for medical treatment in recent weeks, with around 40 or 50 children left on the island.
The Morrison government plans to get every asylum-seeker child off Nauru by the end of the year, according to Australia’s High Commissioner to the UK George Brandis.
At least four families have been transferred to Adelaide in recent weeks, with the children now receiving care in an Adelaide hospital.
Earlier in the week, prime minister Scott Morrison confirmed his government was “quietly” working to get children off the Pacific island – one of Australia’s two main offshore centres for processing asylum seekers.
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