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Shame architecture: building our own private Guantanamo
Shame Architecture... The article includes detail plans of the new construction
Christmas Island -- building our own private Guantanamo
Date: Wednesday, 28 March 2007
Sophie Black writes:
Source: Crikey
Christmas Island -- building our own private Guantanamo
Date: Wednesday, 28 March 2007
Sophie Black writes:
Could it be that the 82 Sri Lankans sent recently to Nauru, will be the last asylum seekers sent into custody under the federal government's ''Pacific solution''?
Construction of an 800-bed, $360 million Christmas Island detention facility continues apace, seven days a week, in an attempt to complete the massive complex by mid-year.
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Below are some of the details of the security and operational layout:800 beds (includes a children's compound). Currently costed at $360 million. Proposed opening: mid 2007. Includes a compound with an eight cot nursery, childcare centre, play area and classrooms. The island has two boat landing places -- one at Settlement and one highly inaccessible elsewhere, and one airport. The area surrounding the centre has high cliffs.....
Source: Crikey
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