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Hotels are no 'luxury' place to detain people seeking asylum in Australia

  • Written by Andrew Burridge, Lecturer in Human Geography, Macquarie University

In Australia, much of the discussion about detaining asylum seekers has focused on offshore sites on Manus, Nauru and Christmas Island.

But, as the recent ABC drama series Stateless reminds us, detention of asylum seekers within Australia has a longer history and continues today.

The Department of Home Affairs recorded 1,436 people in detention on...

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