Legal challenge for offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru

By Chris Vedelago
Updated March 1 2015 - 1:08am, first published 12:15am

The Abbott government's offshore refugee policy is facing a new legal challenge that seeks to hold the Commonwealth legally responsible for conditions in its overseas detention camps because the decisions to open and operate them were made in Australia.

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