Christmas Island mayor calls for detention centre to be closed

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While the ‘Pacific Solution’ will disappear with the new Labor Government the policy of mandatory detention and offshore processing will remain, with asylum seekers to be kept in a new 400 million dollar detention facility being built on Christmas Island. But some people there are urging the Labor Party to drop mandatory detention altogether and the convert the detention centre to use for education and research. Christmas Island Shire President Gordon Thompson outlines his perspective.

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