Asylum seeker costs reach beyond the sky | thetelegraph.com.au
More examples of how Labor’s failed border protection policies are costing taxpayers:
THE cost of charter flights sending asylum seekers and supplies to and from detention centres around the country has hit $5.2 million for just six months. Millions of dollars are also being spent in project management costs to upgrade overcrowded centres and re-open mothballed sites as the number of asylum seekers in detention explodes. The most expensive charter flights were from the Christmas Island centre, with $380,000 spent on April 20 and 21 to fly asylum seekers to Adelaide and Melbourne.
Charter flights from Christmas Island to Darwin and Leonora in Western Australia in May cost $450,986.
A service from Sydney to Melbourne on May 11 – about the same time alleged rioters from Villawood were moved to Victoria – cost $102,850.
The federal government has even splashed out $275,000 to upgrade the airfield at Curtin, near Derby in WA, after it was reopened as a detention centre last year.
Read the rest here: Asylum seeker costs reach beyond the sky | thetelegraph.com.au.
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