THE Abbott government has defended relocating dozens of asylum seekers in Sydney to the other side of Australia while the Villawood detention centre undergoes renovations.
A letter sent from the Immigration Department to 83 detainees says they will be moved from Villawood in Sydney's west to a facility in Curtin, thousands of kilometres away in Western Australia.
A spokesperson for Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said facilities across the detention network were "designed to be flexible and adaptive to changes".
"The detention network is not run at the convenience of asylum seeker activists and detainees," the spokesperson told AAP in a statement on Tuesday.
"It is run to optimise its management for both government and the taxpayer."
Decisions on whether people are returned to Villawood will be made at a later time.
The planned move comes a day before 16 of the Villawood group are due to have a legal challenge against the Australian government heard in court.
The 16 took legal action after the details of every asylum seeker in Australian detention was inadvertently published on the department's website last month.
Their lawyer has suggested the move could be seen as "either trying to frustrate the justice system and/or punish my clients".
But Mr Morrison's office said detainees would continue to receive the same level of services now available to them, including communication with legal representatives.
The transfers to Curtin will start this month.
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