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Refugee activists say that 26 men held for more than a year in Melbourne hotels were told earlier today they had been granted bridging visas, and will be released.
A statement for the activists said the men were being held in Carlton’s Park Hotel, after being moved recently from the Mantra hotel in Preston. They had been held for as long as seven years on Manus Island before coming to Australia.
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Earlier, the Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk confirmed her government is looking at “a number of options” for quarantine in the regions instead of hotel quarantine in Brisbane.
Asked if that would include a mining camp outside Rockhampton, she said:
Not at the moment, because we’re working through it, and I will respect the confidences of our national cabinet again. We’ll put forward some proposals there and working over those issues in the next few days.
Anna[stacia Palaszczuk] hasn’t – I haven’t got a proposal yet, I’m catching up with her in Brisbane on Friday … In regional communities there will be understandable anxiety about what this will mean and how is that going to work, ‘why does it have to be here’ – those issues have to be worked through, we had to do that in Howard Springs but that worked. We’ll take it step by step but always happy to hear good ideas.
