Budget immigration costs: Australia will spend almost $3.4m for each person in offshore detention

Daily cost to taxpayers is $9,305 for each of the 239 people now held on Nauru or in Papua New Guinea

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Australia will spend nearly $812m on its offshore immigration processing system next year - just under $3.4m for each of the 239 people now held on Nauru or in Papua New Guinea.

On the figures presented in Tuesday's budget, it costs Australian taxpayers $9,305 every day for each person held offshore.