Cost of Australia holding each refugee on Nauru balloons to $4.3m a year

Exclusive: Taxpayer cost of offshore processing regime revealed as government remains silent on where $400m went The cost to Australian taxpayers to hold a single refugee on Nauru has escalated tenfold to more than $350,000 every month – or $4.3m a year – as the government refuses to reveal where nearly $400m spent on offshore processing on the island has gone. Australia currently pays about $40m a month to run its offshore processing regime on Nauru, an amount almost identical to 2016 when there were nearly 10 times as many people held on the island. Continue reading...
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