Share on Twitter An additional $467 million in federal funding has been set aside to relieve crowding in Australia’s immigration detention network after international border closures put a pause on deportations, budget papers have revealed. The federal budget, handed down by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Tuesday night, includes $202 million to be spent on increasing the capacity of onshore facilities and Christmas Island’s North West Point detention centre before the end of the financial year, and an additional $263 million in 2021-22. Deportations of non-citizens have stalled during the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting the government to reopen the North West Point facility in August to free up space in the onshore system.