The last of hundreds of asylum seekers sent to Nauru under the controversial Pacific Solution leave the island today as Australia's new Labor Government fulfils its commitment to close the camp.
The regional representative of the UN High Commission for Refugees, Richard Towle, says the move goes a long way to show Australia as a humane society and one that is meeting its international obligations.
And a long time campaigner for the closure of the camps, Australian Susan Metcalfe, says she is enormously relieved.
She says finally Australia may have sensible policies for dealing with people asking it for assistance.
"We have stuck people in another country indefinitely, and they have lived in great uncertainty. And there has been a lot of damage to those people. And many of the past people who were there for four or five years are in Australia and they are still picking up the pieces of their lives."
