Inside Christmas Island: the Australian detention centre with four asylum seekers and a $26m price tag

The sole occupants of a million-dollar facility off the country’s coast are two adults and two small children, who are paying the price for its war on refugees

It should be one of Australia’s premier tourist destinations – a remote Indian ocean island with beautiful palm-fringed beaches, coral reefs, turquoise waters and fascinating wildlife.

Instead, Christmas Island has made its name as a notorious prison, home to a sprawling detention centre, purpose-built and razor-wired – and which holds just four occupants, two of them small children.

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