It explains: "This may include damaging property, spitting or swearing in public or other actions that other people might find offensive. Disruptive means to cause disorder or to disturb someone or something."
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has taken a hard-line approach to refugee policy in Australia since he was elected in the autumn of 2013, in an attempt to slow the number of people who travel to Australia from transit camps in Indonesia.
His actions include using the Australian navy to tow boats back to Indonesian waters, and deporting all refugees who arrive to detention centres to remote Pacific islands.
The document was released by the independent Asylum Seeker Resource Centre onto its Facebook page.
A spokesman from the Centre, Kon Karapanagiotidis, told The Telegraph: "No other industrialised nation criminalises everyday behaviour."
He added: "The idea that spitting in public or getting a parking fine is enough to get you sent to an off shore detention centre is extraordinary. It is an abuse of power and creates a climate of terror for asylum seekers."
The office of the immigration minister, Scott Morrison, told The Australian newspaper in December that 35 asylum seekers had been charged with criminal offences since the September election, and the group needed to be made aware of community expectiations.
"In serious cases those who breach the code could be liable not just to be taken back into detention but transferred to offshore processing centres at Nauru and Manus Island, regardless of when they first arrived," he said.
- The Independent
