Economic "Management"

May 2007

Take a look at how "good economic managers" spend our money persecuting refugees and asylum seekers. Of course this is only the financial cost; the human cost is not measurable. Imagine how much was squandered when the detention centres were bursting!

2006-07 costs per detention centre:

• Maribyrnong
  Fixed Annual Cost: $5.3 million
  Cost per detainee per day: $104

• Perth
  Fixed Annual Cost: $4.6 million
  Cost per detainee per day: $189

• Northern (Darwin)
  Fixed Annual Cost: $3.9 million
  Cost per detainee per day: $122

• Port Augusta
  Fixed Annual Cost: $2.2 million
  Cost per detainee per day: $122

• Port Hedland (EMPTY)
  Fixed Annual Cost: $0.72 million
  Cost per detainee per day: mothballed

• Nauru
  Fixed Annual Cost: $28 million
  Cost per detainee per day: -

• Manus Island (empty)
  Fixed Annual Cost: $2 million
  Cost per detainee per day: mothballed

• Baxter
  Fixed Annual Cost: $23.3 million
  Cost per detainee per day: $115

• Villawood
  Fixed Annual Cost: 16.9 million
  Cost per detainee per day: $154

• Christmas Island (current)
  Fixed Annual Cost: $6.8 million
  Cost per detainee per day: -

• TOTAL $93.72 million

Pamela Curr
Campaigns
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre