Asylum-seeker activists target Australian parliament
It came a day after some 30 people disrupted parliamentary Question Time, chanting "close the camps" and "where is your moral compass?" with several supergluing their hands to the public viewing gallery railings.
Canberra sends asylum-seekers trying to reach Australia by sea to isolated Pacific outposts on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, with the camps' conditions widely criticised by refugee advocates and medical professionals.
UN special rapporteur Francois Crepeau this month said Australia's "punitive approach" to boatpeople had tarnished its human rights record following an 18-day mission that took him across the country and to Nauru.
The government has defended its position as necessary to stem waves of migration by people from war-torn Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and the Middle East, with many dying at sea during the treacherous journey.