Offshore detention eight years on: 230 people remain trapped on PNG and Nauru and 133 are locked up in prison hotels across Australia

The announcement by the then Rudd Government that those arriving by boat after 19 July 2013 would never be settled in Australia was never backed up with a clear plan as to what would happen to the more than 3,000 asylum seekers sent to Papua New Guinea and Nauru for processing.  Eight years later 230 …