Detention costs soar by $600m

The Federal Opposition has seized on new documents showing the cost of running Australia's detention network has increased by more than $600 million in the past two years.

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Published 17 August 2011 8:45pm

Updated 26 August 2013 9:20am

By Kathy Novak

Source: SBS

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The Federal Opposition has seized on new documents showing the cost of running Australia's detention network has increased by more than $600 million in the past two years.

More asylum seekers are also being hospitalised and attempting self- harm.

But Tony Abbott's attack on the government at a morning news conference didn't go as smoothly as he'd hoped.

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