CANBERRA: Australian politicians and refugee advocates appealed for calm yesterday after violence and arson attacks swept through detention centres holding asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.
An Immigration Department official said all seven centres on the mainland and a camp on Australia's remote Christmas Island were quiet again by yesterday afternoon after riots and a spate of fires.
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