The Australian government on Wednesday agreed to pay detainees on Manus Island more than 70 million Australian dollars ($53 million) in the "largest settlement in a human rights class-action" in the country's history.
Over 1,900 asylum seekers who were held, or are currently being held, at the government's offshore detention centre on the island filed a class action suit claiming that the government did not deliver on its duty of care by housing them in. The detainees claimed they were exposed to conditions which were not up to Australian standards.