{"id":338297,"date":"2021-10-06T00:33:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T00:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/oct\/06\/australia-to-end-offshore-processing-in-papua-new-guinea"},"modified":"2021-10-06T00:33:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T00:33:33","slug":"australia-to-end-offshore-processing-in-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/06\/australia-to-end-offshore-processing-in-papua-new-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia to end offshore processing in Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refugees and asylum seekers offered path to permanent migration in PNG \u2013 or transfer to Nauru<\/p><p>Australia will end offshore processing on Papua New Guinea by the end of the year, leaving Nauru as its sole regional processing centre.<\/p><p>PNG has been seeking to end its involvement in offshore processing for years. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2016\/apr\/26\/papua-new-guinea-court-rules-detention-asylum-seekers-manus-unconstitutional#:~:text=The%20detention%20of%20asylum%20seekers,breach%20of%20the%20country's%20constitution.&amp;text=Those%20found%20not%20to%20be,country%20of%20origin%2C%20he%20said.\">Australian-run detention centre on PNG\u2019s Manus Island<\/a> was found to be illegal and ordered shut by the PNG supreme court in 2016 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2017\/jun\/14\/government-to-pay-damages-to-manus-island-detainees-in-class-action\">Australia forced to pay $70m in compensation<\/a> to those unlawfully detained.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/oct\/06\/australia-to-end-offshore-processing-in-papua-new-guinea\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/oct\/06\/australia-to-end-offshore-processing-in-papua-new-guinea\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refugees and asylum seekers offered path to permanent migration in PNG \u2013 or transfer to NauruAustralia will end offshore processing on Papua New Guinea by the end of the year, leaving Nauru as its sole regional processing centre.PNG has been seeking to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,1340,1729,1730,2883,6,2843,242,524,1337,366,238],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338298,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338297\/revisions\/338298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}