Australia: Offshore Detention Cruel, Costly

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image © 2021 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch (Sydney) – Australia’s government should invest in community-based alternatives to immigration detention rather than spending millions of dollars per person each year on its abusive offshore regime, Human Rights Watch said in a recent submission to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee of the Australian Senate. Human Rights Watch Submission to the Inquiry into Offshore Processing and Resettlement Arrangements Since November 2025, the committee has been holding an inquiry into Australia’s offshore…

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