Criticism from residents and former detainees as PM visits Christmas Island

A guard at the North West Point Detention Centre on Christmas Island

A guard at the North West Point Detention Centre on Christmas Island Source: AAP

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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.

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