7amIt’s an uncomfortable fact our government doesn’t like to face: 25 years on from the Tampa affair, we’re still paying a tiny island micro-nation hundreds of millions of dollars to keep immigration detention alive.
One of the ways we’re doing that is by helping to prop up Nauru Airlines – a company riven with financial, governance and safety issues.
Today, independent journalist Nick Feik on how our relationship with a foreign commercial airline is compromising the Australian government’s own regulators, departments and procurement processes in the name of immigration detention.
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Guest: Independent journalist, Nick Feik
Photo: Nauru Airlines
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