Intelligence files allege the politician may be a leading figure in a burgeoning criminal network in this country.
Home Affairs said the responsibility rested with the companies engaged by the Commonwealth rather than the government itself.
Chris Jones was kicked off Nauru for treating his patients with too much care. He believes he was interrupting Nauru politicians’ business model.
A months-long investigation into the failures of Home Affairs,exposing deep flaws in the operation of Australia’s gatekeepers.
Paladin majority owner Craig Thrupp defended the transfers which are under investigation by the anti-corruption watchdog.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said claims of improper use of taxpayer dollars by companies contracted by the department were deeply concerning.
Investigative journalists Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard discuss their investigation into the secret money trail beginning in Home Affairs coffers and ending with payments to bank accounts controlled by powerful Pacific Island politicians.
Just one month after the Home Affairs Department signed the contract,police arrested Mozammil Bhojani and charged him with paying more than $100,000 in bribes.
Troy Kellett died after falling from a stack of shipping containers at an Adelaide dock. Police are probing if he was there to help in a narcotics importation.
Australia’s Department of Home Affairs oversaw the payment of millions of taxpayer dollars to powerful Pacific Island politicians through a chain of suspect contracts.
An unscrupulous employer engineered a path to this country for the young hopeful Chinese man,then put him to work for a pittance.