How does a company with no experience, registered to a beach shack, win contracts worth $423 million on Manus Island? Turns out Home Affairs ran a closed tender and Paladin was the only one invited to bid. #paladinaffair #manus
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ABC Four Corners reporter in Sydney, via AFR in Shanghai, Jakarta, Canberra & Tenterfield +61 481 905 562 [email protected]
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- Paladin is a "global" company, not registered to a beach shack and the director charged with 106 counts of fraud was not involved in the Manus contract, according to Home Affairs .... we beg to differ. Our @FinancialReview fact check. #PaladinAffair afr.com/news/policy/im…
- In case people missed this over the weekend, the Paladin beach shack on Kangaroo Island is gone, replaced by a serviced office in Canberra with no phone line. #insiders #PaladinAffair
- This is getting interesting .... Home Affairs calls in auditors to examine the $423 million in contracts awarded to Paladin on Manus Island #paladinaffair
- We were wrong ... Paladin was not fined 1,000 times for performance failures on Manus, it was actually 3,740 times according to unredacted documents released by Home Affairs.
- In today's edition of the #PaladinAffair Home Affairs seeks to exempt its $423 million Manus Island contract from FOI scrutiny and exclude it from "Commonwealth procurement rules".
- #Watergate is big, but the larger "national scandal" is that we've spent $8.5 billion on the Murray Darling over the last decade and it's got worse.
- Dutton distances himself from #paladinaffair - the $423 million Manus security contract, awarded in a closed tender, to a company with no experience, is all on the Department now. #manus
- We have movement ... the Auditor General will investigate the awarding of Paladin's $423 million Manus Island contract, as part of a broader look at how Home Affairs has given out offshore processing contracts. #PaladinAffair
- My third Four Corners .... some biffo, a canoe ride and a Chinese slush fund.Next week Four Corners travels to the Solomon Islands to investigate the extent of Chinese influence and control in the strategically located Pacific nation.
00:00 - Another giant Home Affairs failure ... inspectors from the department too scared to visit Manus Island so Paladin largely judged its own performance on a $532 million contract.
- Big day for PNG - Home Affairs terminates Paladin contract, while new PM Marape announces the equivalent of a Royal Commission into the UBS loan Affair.
- In today's installment of the #PaladinAffair, the Manus Island contractor cuts a deal with the family of PNG's parliamentary speaker and deputy leader of the ruling party, Job Pomat. #Estimates
- Hi everyone, we're holding our @4corners "Shadow State" for a week. While the rise of the consultants is a massive story we can't compete with the @TheMatildas 😀 @Miller_Reports @Jess_Longbottom
