With numbers building to over 5,000 people across Australia in remote detention camps, a detention facility was rapidly built on the outskirts of the space and nuclear town of Woomera - a blistering hot desert town that now plays host to an important US communcation facility.

In Australia people arriving illegally by boat on the far north west coast or running aground on various offshore atolls are being detained under increasingly tight refugee laws enacted by the Howard Government.

The new laws allow Australia to detain refugees under security regulations that strictly control their movements, and allowing them to be detained in remote refugee camps far from the eyes of the Australian people.

Once detained and processed through the excellent medical services - the Australian government knows it has no choice but to provide - the refugees are told they have no right to claim refugee status for three years, and should asylum be finally granted they will have to forgo any family reunion rights in the future, unless they go back through the system via another nation's refugee center.

The crisis has been building since last year. Since that time the Australian government has ignore any international treaty obligations it has signed under the various UN charters that provide protection to refugees and their human rights.

Part of this policy has been to make life miserable by dumping people who have escaped the horrors of Iraq and Afganistan in remote locations where conditions don't come any worse. Although the Federal immigration minister Philip Ruddock had hoped this would make the refugees - which includes women and young girls who have escaped the Tablian terror engulfing Afghanistan - decide to leave immediately for their last port of call or right back to Kabual if it was possible.

The Australian government has made access to the camps highly restricted with NGO organizations only having limited access if any at all to assess the situation.

Not surprisingly, the refugees have had enough and launched major protests across two facilities whereby they broke out of the facility and went into the local town to gain access to the media, which have been kept well away from the facilities by an increasingly heartless government with little knowledge of international affairs.

Furthermore, while no official policy has been announced on the use of Australian troops for domestic refugee operations, Australian soldiers were involved in the construction of the refugee camp at Woomera.

Recent efforts by Australia to stem the flow of refugees among the many countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia that are being used as staging points have been met with wry amusement by these nations, as the Howard Government gets a taste of the 21st century and the millions of refugees that will come to this empty land of some 20 million people of which 99% are immigrates or descended from immigration waves in the past 200 years.

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