Australia's Border Force is yet to comment on why 10 refugees from Nauru, needing medical treatment, have now been placed on the 71st floor of a Brisbane hotel.
Photo: homeaffairs.gov.au
Refugee advocate, Ian Rintoul, said there are guards on the door with the refugees not able to leave their rooms.
They were transferred suddenly from Darwin at the weekend, after being moved from Nauru in September so they could access medical care.
But Rintoul said that care had not been provided.
"They have been denied transfer under the Medevac Legislation, [passed and then repealed by the Australian government last year], they have waited until September to transport them, they transported them in September to Australia and it's now 18 November," he said.
"They have still not got that medical treatment."
Rintoul said the hotels being used to house the refugees were factories of mental illness, just like the camps.
He said the Border Force was spending "tens of millions of dollars subsidising multi-millionaire hotel owners at the expense of refugee lives."
The Border Force has not responded to RNZ Pacific's requests for comment.