Australia’s offshore processing policy has made the world less safe, not more

Desperate and vulnerable people are forced to seek ever more dangerous routes to safety

• Budget blowouts: offshore processing costs $1.2bn for fewer than 300 people
• Interactive timeline: what happened to every person caught up in Australia's offshore processing regime

The so-called Pacific solution was never a solution. Offshore processing is no process at all.

Australia's vaunted - indeed advertised - policy of physically and forcibly preventing asylum seekers from setting foot in Australia to claim asylum has made the world less safe, not more.