Australia is offering asylum-seekers in its Pacific immigration camps up to $10,000 (US$9,400) if they voluntarily return to their home country, a report said Saturday, prompting outrage from refugee campaigners. Fairfax Media reported that those returning to Leba**n from detention centres on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and the tiny Pacific state of Nauru were offered the highest amount of $10,000. Iranians and Sudanese were given $7,000 if they dropped bids for refugee status, Afghans $4,000 and those from Pakistan, Nepal and Myanmar $3,300, the report in The Sydney Morning Herald said. The Herald said under the previous Labor administration -- in ****** until last September -- the payments were much lower, ranging from $1,500 to $2,000.
06-23-2014, 12:24 AM
Australia offers asylum-seekers $10k to return home
Australia is offering asylum-seekers in its Pacific immigration camps up to $10,000 (US$9,400) if they voluntarily return to their home country, a report said Saturday, prompting outrage from refugee campaigners. Fairfax Media reported that those returning to Leba**n from detention centres on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and the tiny Pacific state of Nauru were offered the highest amount of $10,000. Iranians and Sudanese were given $7,000 if they dropped bids for refugee status, Afghans $4,000 and those from Pakistan, Nepal and Myanmar $3,300, the report in The Sydney Morning Herald said. The Herald said under the previous Labor administration -- in ****** until last September -- the payments were much lower, ranging from $1,500 to $2,000.
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