Millions of dollars in detention money went to Pacific politicians

Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨LineNoise@kbin.social⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/millions-of-dollars-in-detention-money-went-to-pacific-politicians-20230718-p5dp51.html

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.

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LineNoise@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The Australian Federal Police and financial crime agency Austrac have spent months probing the payments. But no charges have been laid, and sources aware of both agencies’ work, speaking anonymously to detail confidential investigations, said the National Anti-Corruption Commission or a commission of inquiry was needed to examine a money trail that spans 10 years and several governments.

A good way of putting to bed any concern that the NACC was partisan would be to go after both major parties' involvement in our systematic torture of asylum seekers and refugees.

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- billytheid@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Good luck. Australians are mostly bigots, no one will care about their teams involvement, they’ll blame brown people
  
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DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you.

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tuff_wizard@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Did we get value for money?

We never agreed not to bribe anyone. Sometimes that’s she only way to get things done in certain areas.

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