Home affairs department confirms eight of the 11 people flown to island nation in September have since returned home
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Eight of the 11 asylum seekers taken to Nauru in September – including a woman and child – have returned to their country of origin.
In October Guardian Australia revealed the transfer, the first by Australia to the regional processing centre in nine years, which occurred just months after the last asylum seekers were removed from the Pacific nation.
