Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is defending conditions in the controversial asylum seeker detention camp in Nauru, saying they are better than Australian mining camps.
Ms Bishop visited the camps during a Pacific tour that also included Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
She claims living standards for the more than 700 asylum seekers currently on Nauru were good.
Ms Bishop told the ABC that they were certainly better than mining camps in Australia and the standard of medical care and services is very high.
Ms Bishop says she met with a number of the doctors, and spoke to them in detail about the services that they're providing.
Her visit followed a damning report by the United Nations refugee agency in November which said asylum seekers detained at Australia's offshore centres are subjected to arbitrary, mandatory and indefinite detention in unsafe and inhumane conditions.
Refugee agencies have also decried the quality of medical care available.
Several camp inmates needing medical attention, including a pregnant woman, have been medi-vacced to Australia.
