But with the Malaysian plan's demise, offshore processing is dead, at least for the time being.
Ms Gillard has said she hopes that the offshore processing centres could be re-opened within a month.
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The government says offshore processing is aimed at deterring people from making the dangerous journey across the sea to Australia.
Earlier this month, lawmakers approved the re-opening of offshore processing camps for asylum seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie condemned the offshore processing legislation, labelling it a return to the unscrupulous policies of the past.
Australia will send the first group of asylum seekers to an offshore processing centre in Nauru this week, Immigration Minister Chris Bowen says.
Over the weekend, Prime Minister Julia Gillard also sealed a deal with Papua New Guinea's government to conduct offshore processing on Manus Island.
Australia has also recently reopened an offshore processing centre on Nauru, as it puts back in place a controversial policy it ended four years ago.
Reports in Australian media said about 2, 000 asylum seekers had reached Australia since the country approved plans to re-open offshore processing centres in Nauru and PNG.
Lawmakers approved offshore processing camps for asylum seekers last month.
Last year, the government re-established offshore processing camps for asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea and Nauru in a bid to deter people from making the dangerous journey across the sea to Australia.
Despite Ms Gillard's claim that it would deter asylum-seekers from making dangerous sea journeys, the plan was more about shifting all asylum processing offshore: anywhere but Australia.
When he started raising the nets from those offshore waters, and saw the processing mill getting clogged with minnows, not Whales, he could have moderated the impacts early, to filter them out on the front end, he did not.
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The company will also spend 11.38 billion rupees by 2015 on gas processing complexes of its satellite field, also western offshore.
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