Nauru had agreed only to process boat people who Australia sends there, not to resettle them.
See articleAustralia's prime minister, Julia Gillard, announced that offshore detention centres to process "boat people" seeking asylum are to be re-established in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, four years after they were closed by her own party.
In his first stint as prime minister, Mr Rudd closed the camps.Australia has since processed most boat people on its Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island, near Indonesia.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says Australia should process the boat people itself; but the agency will agree anyway to monitor those whom Australia sends to Malaysia.
Twenty-one Vietnamese asylum seekers have been intercepted approaching Australia by boat, processed at sea, and returned to Vietnam.
The video message is understood to have been recorded before Morrison visited Manus in late September, where he directly addressed some detained asylum seekers, telling them they would never be resettled in Australia under the government's hardline "PNG solution", which sees all asylum seekers who arrive by boat processed and resettled offshore.
Fish were removed from gill nets and were either processed immediately on the boat or placed in floating mesh pens along side the boat until being processed.
Successive Australian governments have attempted to have the asylum and refugee applications of boat people processed offshore.
Almost 900 men are held on Manus Island after being sent there by Australian authorities under the government policy which dictates that anyone seeking asylum by boat is processed offshore.
The central event of the jubilee, on Sunday, was a royal pageant on the Thames, featuring a flotilla of 1,000 boats that processed down the river on a seven-mile course through the heart of London.
