SYDNEY–Australia will spend up to A$250 million ($195 million) housing nearly 800 asylum-seekers in Papua New Guinea for the next 12 months after its controversial processing center closes this month.
But hundreds of detainees are refusing the leave the Australian-run and funded Manus Island processing center, which will close on Oct. 31, fearing for their safety in the general community on Manus Island off Papua New Guinea’s north coast.
