To Australia’s shame, a five man bench of the Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court has ruled Australia's detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal. The court found the Australian detention centre on the island breached PNG’s constitution which guarantees a person’s human rights. 850 men are being forcibly detained, half of which have already been found to be refugees.

The court has ordered that;

"Both the Australian and Papua New Guinea governments shall forthwith take all steps necessary to cease and prevent the continued unconstitutional and illegal detention of the asylum seekers or transferees at the relocation centre on Manus Island and the continued breach of the asylum seekers or transferees constitutional and human rights," the judges ordered.

In a provocative move Australia’s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said no detainees would be resettled in Australia... Greens immigration spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young has called for all remaining detainees to be brought to Australia. Senator Hanson-Young told the ABC "the game was up" and Mr. Turnbull has to listen to legal and humanitarian experts.
Australia must … promptly shut the centre down and transport all of the detainees to Australia for processing of their claims for asylum.
"Really the Government now has no other option but to bring the people left there to Australia and allow them to apply for an Australian visa," she said.
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has backed Sarah Hanson-Young calls, describing offshore processing as "a gaping hole in Australia's soul".
"Australia must immediately respect the court ruling, promptly shut the centre down and transport all of the detainees to Australia for processing of their claims for asylum," Mr. Wilkie said.

It would be interesting to look at the Greens financial expenditures.

We all know that PNG has the best legal system money can buy!

Glory be to God!

Had I been one of those incarcerated victims of the bloody Australian government, I would not have wanted to ever set foot in the country which did this to me any to my family.

Don't bother bringing anyone to Australia for further detention - just unlock all the doors and leave the place immediately in shame: take the first flight back - or better still, travel back on a boat like the ones you captured!

Those opportunist economic migrants are being helped by political interests to challenge forever.

Just to show how false the SPBs are, one who said he was happy to go to PNG now says he wants to go back to Manus where he was 'happier'. Of course the real story would be that he has his finger on the pulse and he still hopes to win that lottery of lotteries, a lifetime on Centrelink, free housing and medical and no worries for life (certainly NO work) through getting a foot in Oz.

There is nothing "provocative" about Dutton repeating what has been known for some time: no illegals will be settled in Australia. If PNG has decided that their government has acted unconstitutionally, they can release the detainees into the PNG population or send them back to their own countries. As Dutton said, there are not coming here to bludge off us, and that is that. Dutton and the government should learn from PNG's tom foolery, and allow no illegal boats in our waters, turning back any attempts to come here. Where the the boats go after that should be of no concern to us. Let the country they first impose themselves on deal with them, according to international law. There is no freedom to country-shop.

Papua New Guinea was stupid to have agreed to take asylum seekers from Australia in the first place and should have said so at the time.

These asylum seekers were Australia's problem, and they are now our problem still.
This Government needs to grow a pair and take responsibility for these people. They have already wasted millions of dollars on offshore 'processing' already.

If any of these people have been found to be refugees, then settle them here and be done with it. I am sick of the whole mess and the embarrassment this Government has caused for us.