Ex-magistrate queries $1.2b Nauru spend
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A former Australian magistrate employed in Nauru can't understand where $1.2 billion earmarked to run offshore detention centres on neighbouring islands is going.
Peter Law, who was controversially expelled from Nauru last year, called for increased transparency around money paying for offshore detention, after a two-year $1.2 billion contract was awarded to Transfield Services to operate facilities on Nauru and Manus Island.
"They're just tents. This is what I can't understand," he told a parliamentary inquiry into allegations of abuse on Nauru on Tuesday.
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