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WRT Nauru the answer of least resistance is dark.

The largest "industry" on Nauru was the processing of Australian offshore immigration seekers, a sordid business that has closed one end of the pipe and is now winding down leaving the facilities and the private security company looking for money.

I would not be suprised if the promise of future USofA offshore processing of US Asylum seekers (come to US|Mexico border seeking asylum? Get sent to a Pacific Island to wait) has influenced the vote in Nauru.