Australia spends $9m per asylum seeker on Nauru — yet many can't afford food
Australia spent the equivalent of more than $9m per person last financial year to maintain its offshore detention system on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru, housing over 100 asylum seekers. Despite this enormous per-capita cost, a survey by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) found that most detainees cannot afford enough food or clean drinking water. Many are skipping meals to make ends meet while awaiting indefinite processing of their asylum claims.
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