Curtin Immigration Reception and Processing Centre

{{Short description|Immigration detention facility in Western Australia}}

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Curtin Immigration Detention Centre is an Australian immigration detention facility at the RAAF Base Curtin in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Curtin was described by former immigration minister Philip Ruddock as the country's "most primitive" processing centre. It was shut down by the Howard government following a riot in 2002 but was re-opened in 2010 by its successor – the Rudd–Gillard government. The controversial move has been seen by commentators as a reversal by the Australian Labor Party of its policy towards detention.{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/detention-centre-a-living-hell-hole-20100418-sm8q.html |title= Detention centre a 'living hell hole' |publisher=The Age |access-date=2010-05-08 |date=April 18, 2010}}{{cite news |url=http://www.rac-vic.org/html/02curtin-detention.htm |title=Curtin Detention Centre |publisher=Refugee Action Collective (Victoria) |access-date=2010-05-08 |date=April 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100422233041/http://www.rac-vic.org/html/02curtin-detention.htm |archive-date=2010-04-22 }}

It is run by Serco Asia Pacific, who also run Villawood and other detention centres in Australia.{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2876919.htm |title=Mixed reaction to reopening of Curtin detention centre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629110427/http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2876919.htm|archive-date=2022-06-29|publisher=ABC |access-date=2025-01-07 |date=April 19, 2010}}