Sentence:  New <WSD>detention centres</WSD> were opened, all in remote areas — at Woomera in the South Australian desert in November 1999, and the Curtin <WSD>Detention Centre</WSD> at Derby in Western Australia in February 2000. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin.