Offshore detention cost taxpayers $5bn in four years – and asylum seekers remain in limbo

Vigils to mark anniversary of Kevin Rudd’s banning of asylum seekers who arrive by boat from ever settling in Australia

Four years since the then prime minister, Kevin Rudd, announced that “any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia”, offshore detention has cost Australian taxpayers almost $5bn and the future of those held on Nauru and Manus Island remains critically uncertain.

On 19 July 2013, Rudd announced all boat-borne asylum seekers would be subject to indefinite detention offshore and would never be eligible to settle in Australia.

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