2007: The costs of the Pacific Solution emerge
A report, A Price Too High: Australia's Approach to Asylum Seekers, found that:
• The Pacific Solution cost the Australian taxpayer in excess of $1 billion over five years.
• It cost more than $500,000 per person to process them on Manus Island, Christmas Island or Nauru.
• It costs seven times more to process asylum seekers on Pacific islands than if it was done on the Australian mainland.
• The Pacific Solution failed to reduce the number of people arriving.
That was money well spent...... $1 billion dollars..... $500,000 per person...