THERE are no asylum seeker children in Australian detention for the first time in almost a decade.

The federal government says the last child left Darwin’s Wickham Point detention centre on Friday, a significant achievement after numbers peaked at almost 2000 in July 2013 when Labor was in power.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull confirmed that there were no children left in detention in an interview on Sky Agenda on Sunday morning.

It followed a News Corp report in which Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said:

“On Friday night when I got the call, it was something I was proud of.”