{"id":13254,"date":"2020-01-26T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/jan\/26\/inside-christmas-island-the-australian-detention-centre-with-four-asylum-seekers-and-a-26m-price-tag"},"modified":"2020-01-26T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T19:00:03","slug":"inside-christmas-island-the-australian-detention-centre-with-four-asylum-seekers-and-a-26m-price-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13254","title":{"rendered":"Inside Christmas Island: the Australian detention centre with four asylum seekers and a $26m price tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sole occupants of a million-dollar facility off the country\u2019s coast are two adults and two small children, who are paying the price for its war on refugees<\/p>\n<p> It should be one of Australia\u2019s premier tourist destinations \u2013 a remote Indian ocean island with beautiful palm-fringed beaches, coral reefs, turquoise waters and fascinating wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Christmas Island has made its name as a notorious prison, home to a sprawling detention centre, purpose-built and razor-wired \u2013 and which holds just four occupants, two of them small children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/jan\/26\/inside-christmas-island-the-australian-detention-centre-with-four-asylum-seekers-and-a-26m-price-tag\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sole occupants of a million-dollar facility off the country\u2019s coast are two adults and two small children, who are paying the price for its war on refugees It should be one of Australia\u2019s premier tourist destinations \u2013 a remote Indian ocean island &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,388,324,1073,491,386,61,674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-australian-politics","category-christmas-island","category-migration","category-scott-morrison","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13255,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13254\/revisions\/13255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}