Meanwhile, human rights group Amnesty International has compiled a damning report to show a deliberate regime of neglect and cruelty on the island nation paid-off by Australia to warehouse unwanted asylum seekers.
The conditions on Nauru that emerge from testimony and records in the Amnesty report, Island of Despair, are deeply disturbing.
Amnesty stripped bare the obfuscation of Australia's policy, that would refer to asylum seekers in dehumanising language as "transferees" or their treatment as "deterrence", and in explicit terms captured the sinister consequences of what has actually been achieved.
Offshore processing has been "explicitly designed to inflict incalculable damage on hundreds of women, men and children", Amnesty said, by isolating people "on a remote place from which they cannot leave, with the specific intention that these people should suffer harm".
After years in incarceration, if Australia cannot find another country to give them a future, it is time to bring them here.
