Australia's offshore detention foundering, says NGO

An Australian NGO says the offshore detention regime has been left foundering after Wilson Security said it will not renew its contract to provide security at detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.

Wilson Security's decision follows the announcement by the service provider, Broadspectrum, earlier this year that it, too, would abandon the asylum seeker processing centres.

Matthew Phillips is the human rights campaign director at GetUp, an NGO which, for the past year, has been trying to rally communities to not do business with companies involved in offshore detention.

He told Jamie Tahana Wilson Security's announcement makes it clear that businesses no longer want to be associated with the detention centres.