Nauru refugee regime to cost taxpayers $385 million over next 12 months

By Michael Koziol, Immigration Correspondent
Updated November 21 2017 - 4:08pm, first published 4:06pm
The Nauru detention centre - the accommodation buildings on 20 July - after the rioting and fires which destroyed much of it. THE AGE . news . 15 AUGUST 2013 . photo from Canstruct, the construction company rebuilding it . story by Bianca Hall  .
The Nauru detention centre - the accommodation buildings on 20 July - after the rioting and fires which destroyed much of it. THE AGE . news . 15 AUGUST 2013 . photo from Canstruct, the construction company rebuilding it . story by Bianca Hall .

A Queensland construction firm and Liberal Party donor, picked to run refugee services on Australia's behalf in Nauru, will be paid $385 million by taxpayers over the next 12 months.

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