Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre

The Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre was an Australian immigration detention facility from 1983 to 2018, located on Hampstead Road, in the City of Maribyrnong, in the inner west of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Prior to its use as an immigration detention centre, the 26-hectare (64-acre) site was the location of a former explosives factory during World War II, and was subsequently repurposed, initially for temporary and transient migrant accommodation—as the Maribyrnong Migrant Hostel and later as the Midway (Migrant) Hostel and Phillip Migrant Hostel, as various structures on the site—between 1950 and 1987. The site was repurposed as an immigration detention facility between 1983 and 2018. Parts of the site were concurrently used by Victoria University for student housing and by community housing providers, as temporary accommodation for those transitioning from correctional centres in Victoria to permanent accommodation. The former Maribyrnong Migrant Hostel was added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 12 February 2009 in recognition of its historical and architectural significance; and was also added to a non-statutory list by the City of Maribyrnong on an unknown date. The Maidstone tram depot, established on part of the former hostel site from 2023, involved the demolition and removal of some of the heritage items.

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