Australian asylum camp reopens in Papua New Guinea

21 November 2012 Last updated at 19:59 ET Help

Australia has transferred the first group of asylum seekers to a processing centre in Papua New Guinea, immigration officials say.

A flight carrying 19 asylum seekers from Sri Lanka and Iran arrived in PNG early on Wednesday. They will be the first detainees at the newly-reopened camp on Manus Island.

Australia has also recently reopened an offshore processing centre on Nauru, as it puts back in place a controversial policy it ended four years ago.

Duncan Kennedy reports.

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