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Protesters against the detention of refugee children, Villawood Immigration Detention Centre January 2002

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John Immig
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Immig, John

National Library of Australia

Villawood detention centre

Built on a munitions factory site, the Villawood detention centre started out as a migrant hostel, welcoming postwar immigrants to Sydney.

Children

Demonstrations and protests

Refugees

Villawood

Western industrial and residential suburb, site of the post-war migrant hostel which became an immigration detention centre. Its name is a 1922 inversion of Woodville Road, as there was already a Woodville in Newcastle.

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Villawood detention centre

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Secure facility used to house asylum seekers and people awaiting deportation.