Acting Greens leader Richard di Natale said he had "huge" concerns about the Coalition government's approach to asylum seekers. We've got a situation where all of our detention centres are under huge strain ... and we're going to close down a number of centres in Australia, move those people [to] where there's less scrutiny, where tensions are already at boiling point, what do we think's going to happen? Senator di Natale said there would be more asylum seekers self-harming in desperation. "I think the government's just got to take a step back," he said. Just when you think things can't get any worse, they do. Fairfax Media understands Labor will not stand in the way of the detention centre closures. On Tuesday, acting Labor spokeswoman for Immigration Michelle Rowland said that under Labor's PNG resettlement (announced in July 2013), no asylum seekers who arrived by boat were processed in Australia. If onshore facilities are no longer being used, it stands to reason that their ongoing viability be assessed in light of current and future use.