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Report 3 - Facilities, services and transparency

On Tuesday 18th August 2009, the Joint Standing Committee on Migration tabled its report entitled Immigration detention in Australia: Facilities, services and transparency. This is the third and final report of the series against the inquiry's terms of reference.

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This report is comprised of preliminary pages, 4 chapters, 2 dissent, 1 minority reports and 4 appendices.

Immigration detention in Australia: Facilities, services and transparency

Preliminary pages (PDF 133KB)
Contents, Foreword, Committee Membership, Terms of Reference, List of Abbreviations and List of Recommendations

Chapter 1 (PDF 152KB)
Introduction - Background to this report

Chapter 2 (PDF 430KB)
Immigration detention infrastructure

Chapter 3 (PDF 358KB)
Provision of services in detention facilities

Chapter 4 (PDF 180KB)
Transparency and visibility - immigration detention facilities

Dissenting report (PDF 94KB)
Mr Petro Georgiou MP

Dissenting report (PDF 129KB)
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young

Minority Report (PDF 34KB)
Hon. Dr Sharman Stone

Appendix A (PDF 100KB)

Appendix B (PDF 77KB)

Appendix C (PDF 89KB)

Appendix D (PDF 58KB)

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