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List of Australian immigration detention facilities
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This is a list of current and former Australian immigration detention
facilities. Immigration detention facilities are used to house people in
immigration detention, and people detained under the Pacific Solution,
and Operation Sovereign Borders.
Most facilities were operated by Australasian Correctional Management
under contract from the Department of Immigration until 2003, when
ACM exited the market. Between 2003 and 2009, G4S was appointed
as the contractor to manage a large number of facilities. Its contract was
not renewed and in 2009 Serco Australia was awarded a five-year
contract. The offshore processing centres on Nauru and Manus are
operated by Transfield Services, with security sub-contracted to Wilson
Security.

A sign at the entrance of the former
Baxter Detention Centre, taken in 2006.

Asylum seekers protesting against
detention at Villawood Immigration
Detention Centre on 22 April 2011.

The entrance of the Woomera
Immigration Reception and Processing
Centre, taken in April 2003, following
closure of the Centre.

Australian governmentimmigration detention centres in Australia and offshore
Facility

Status

Classification

Managed

Opened

Closed

Capacity
nominal;

Location

[surge]

Baxter
Immigration
Reception and
Processing
Centre

Closed

Maximum

Australasian
Correctional
Management

September
2002

Christmas Island
Immigration
Reception and
Processing
Centre

Operational

Maximum

Serco Australia
Pty Limited

2001-2008
(temporary),
2008-

September
2001

August
2007

660;
[220]

800 [688]

Port Augusta,
South Australia

Christmas
Island

West Island,
Cocos
(Keeling)
Islands

Cocos Island
Contingency
Reception Centre

Closed

Maximum

Australasian
Correctional
Management

Curtin
Immigration
Reception and
Processing
Centre

Operational

Maximum

Serco Australia
Pty Limited

Darwin
Alternative Place
of Detention

Closed[1]

Medium

Department of
Immigration and
Border
Protection

Inverbrackie
Alternative Place
of Detention

Operational

Medium

Serco Australia
Pty Limited

18
December
2010

Leonora
Alternative Place
of Detention[2]

Closed

Medium

Serco Australia
Pty Limited

2010

2001–2004,
2012–

1100[4]

Los Negros
Island, Manus
Province, Papua
New Guinea

75; [5]

Maribyrnong,
Victoria

March
2002

April 2010

1,500

(reopened)

2014

RAAF Curtin,
Western
Australia

585

Darwin Airport,
Northern
Territory

400

Woodside,
South Australia

210

Leonora,
Western
Australia

Manus Regional
Processing
Centre[3]

Operational

Maximum

Transfield
Services

Maribyrnong
Immigration
Detention Centre

Operational

Maximum

Global
Solutions
Limited

1983

Nauru Regional
Processing
Centre

Operational

Maximum

Transfield
Services

2001–2008,
2012–[5]

1,200

Nauru

Maximum

Department of
Immigration and
Border
Protection

August
2001

382;
[164]

Coonawarra,
Northern
Territory

Operational

Maximum

Department of
Immigration and
Border
Protection

1981

55; [9]

Perth Airport,
Western
Australia

Closed

Medium

Serco Australia
Pty Limited

August
2011

Northern
Immigration
Detention Centre
Perth
Immigration
Detention Centre
Pontville
Immigration
Detention
Centre[2]

Operational

September
2013

400

Brighton Army
Camp,
Pontville,
Tasmania

Port Augusta
Immigration
Residential
Housing[2]

Closed

Medium

Serco Australia
Pty Limited

2010

2014

Port Hedland
Immigration
Reception and
Processing
Centre

Closed

Maximum

Australasian
Correctional
Management

1991

April 2003

600

Port Hedland,
Western
Australia

Scherger
Immigration
Detention
Centre[2]

Closed

Maximum

Serco Australia
Pty Limited

2010

2014

596

RAAF
Scherger,
Queensland

Sydney
Immigration
Residential
Housing

Operational

Medium

Serco Australia
Pty Limited

2006

48

Villawood,
New South
Wales

Maximum

Department of
Immigration and
Border
Protection

1981

510;
[190]

Villawood,
New South
Wales

8
December
2011

1,000

Wickham Point,
Northern
Territory

1,500

Woomera,
South Australia

Villawood
Immigration
Detention Centre

Operational

Wickham Point
Immigration
Detention Centre

Operational

Maximum

Department of
Immigration and
Border
Protection

Woomera
Immigration
Reception and
Processing
Centre

Closed

Maximum

Australasian
Correctional
Management

November
1999

Yongah Hill
Immigration
Detention Centre

Operational

Maximum

Serco Australia
Pty Limited

27 June
2012

Total capacity

April 2003

64

Port Augusta,
South Australia

600

Northam,
Western
Australia

6,518;
[1,271]

(current)

References
1. "Darwin immigration detention centre closes due to 'success in stopping boats' " (http://www.abc.net.au/n
ews/2015-02-21/blaydin-point-immigration-centre-closes/6174730). ABC News. Australian Broadcasting
Corporation. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
2. Ireland, Judith (14 January 2014). "Scott Morrison announces closure of four immigration detention
centres" (http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/scott-morrison-announces-closure-of-fo
ur-immigration-detention-centres-20140114-30rys.html). Sydney Morning Herald. AAP. Retrieved
30 July 2015.
3. "Manus Regional Processing Centre" (http://www.border.gov.au/about/reports-publications/reviews-inqui
ries/offshore-regional-processing/manus-centre). Australian Border Force. Department of Immigration
and Border Protection. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
4. "The truth about Manus Island" (http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/33587/). "Amnesty
International". Retrieved 2014-01-05.
5. Nauru Regional Processing Centre

External links

Department of Immigration and Border Protection: About immigration detention
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