Tasmanian Greens senator Nick McKim leaves Manus Island

A Tasmanian senator has flown to Port Moresby after being ordered to leave a controversial island.

Greens Senator Nick McKim. (AAP Image/Sam Mooy)

TASMANIAN Greens senator Nick McKim has been kicked off Manus Island and is headed to Port Moresby after trying to access an asylum seeker processing centre.

Senator McKim was ordered to leave Papua New Guinea on Friday despite holding an Australian passport and multiple entry visa.

“The veil of secrecy continues to surround Australia’s detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru,” Senator McKim, the Greens’ immigration spokesman, said in a statement.

“As a member of the Australian parliament it is my duty to examine the conditions in which Australia’s detainees are being kept.

“This has been six long years of cruelty and deprivation.”

It was Senator McKim’s sixth visit to Manus Island. He was with detained refugee journalist and author Behrouz Boochani in Lorengau when he was confronted by PNG authorities on Thursday.

“In my six visits to Papua New Guinea I have always followed local laws and been respectful to everyone,” Senator McKim said.

“It is the Labor and Liberal parties who wear the shame of this bloody chapter, not the people of Papua New Guinea.”