More than 100 former and current staff of Australia's offshore immigration detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island are urging the federal government to close the facilities.
In a joint statement, they have called for asylum seekers and refugees held there to be brought to Australia.
The move follows new allegations of abuse of detainees on Nauru and renewed claims of mistreatment by Australian guards on Manus Island.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O'Neill have met hours later in Port Moresby in talks to close the Manus Island centre.
In a statement of their own, they say the two countries' governments are in agreement that the centre will be closed but a number of options are being considered.
... has more about the details of the claims from the former and current staff at the centres.
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