A report by UNICEF and Save the Children found operating the detention system on Nauru and Manus Island had cost $3.6 billion since the reintroduction of offshore processing in 2012.
The report said shutting offshore detention facilities would save $2 billion over four years.
Turnbacks are estimated to have cost nearly $300 million since Operation Sovereign Borders began.
The US Declaration of Independence declares: 鈥淲hen a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government鈥.
Err, like now, when we have just seen the racist, misogynist, billionaire bully Donald Trump 鈥渆lected鈥 US president by only 25% of the eligible vote and with 700,000 fewer votes that his opponent Hilary Clinton?
When the majority of US residents did not vote for either of these two candidates of the richest 1%?
The Bureau of Meteorology says wind gusts up to 260km/h from a 鈥渟upercell鈥 thunderstorm and multiple tornadoes were recorded on September 28, destroying transmission towers and causing the state-wide blackout in South Australia.
The report from the BoM 鈥 which mapped the passage of storms and seven tornadoes over critical network infrastructure 鈥 makes it clear that a freak weather event was responsible for the grid blackout.
The 71-year-old Canadian rock legend Neil Young鈥檚 latest song, 鈥淚ndian Givers鈥, seeks to raise awareness about the Native American water protectors in North Dakota protesting the destructive four-state Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
Black Lives Matter Global Network released the following to on November 15.
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Our mandate has not changed: organise and end all state-sanctioned violence until all Black Lives Matter.
The Mexican and US national teams defied protocol on November 11 in their World Cup qualifier as they posed together for a team photograph. The move was a display of unity as US president-elect Donald Trump threatens to tear the two nations apart.
Mexico won the game, hosted in Ohio, with a 2-1 final score.
Normally, football teams pose separately before the game, but this time the players decided to pose together to strike back at Trump鈥檚 proposal to make Mexico pay for a wall between the two countries to keep immigrants out.
The has warned that 2016 was set to be the hottest year on record by a significant margin livescience.com said.
WMO scientists told diplomats gathered in Marrakech, Morocco, for the November 7鈥18 United Nations COP22 climate talks that temperatures are 1.2藲C above pre-industrial times.
The offshore detention hellholes of Nauru and Manus Island are becoming increasingly unviable as more damning reports are published, court cases in Papua New Guinea continue, private service providers under the pressure of boycott campaigns decline to reapply for contracts and protests grow in Australia.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull鈥檚 latest plan 鈥 third country resettlement in the United States 鈥 is a reaction to this pressure, while also maintaining the policy of boat turnbacks, border security rhetoric and denying asylum seekers the right to be resettled in Australia.
