Christmas Island immigration centre: all children removed and transferred to Darwin

By Sarah Whyte
Updated December 22 2014 - 7:08am, first published December 21 2014 - 12:39pm
Promise to crossbenchers: Scott Morrison. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Promise to crossbenchers: Scott Morrison. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
A child held in detention on Christmas Island. Photo: Wolter Peeters
A child held in detention on Christmas Island. Photo: Wolter Peeters

Every asylum seeker child on Christmas Island has been transferred to a Darwin detention centre, as promised by Immigration Minister Scott Morrison in his negotiations with the Senate crossbenchers.