Nauru Detention Centre

The Nauru detention centre is an asylum seeker detention and processing centre on the tiny island nation of Nauru. It is fully funded by the Australian government, and has housed people detained under the Pacific Solution since the Tampa affair in 2001. The detention centre on Nauru was based on a Statement of Principles, signed on 10 September 2001 by the President of Nauru, René Harris, and the Minister for Defence of Australia, at the time Peter Reith. The statement opened the way to establish a detention centre for up to 800 people and was accompanied by a pledge of $20 million in development activities.