Missing documents, unskilled staff, poor value for money: Auditor-General lashes immigration detention

By Henry Belot and Markus Mannheim
Updated September 14 2016 - 1:14pm, first published 10:05am
The Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, which will soon close. Photo: Andrew Meares
The Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, which will soon close. Photo: Andrew Meares
Michael Pezzullo, who has headed the Immigration Department since October 2014. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Michael Pezzullo, who has headed the Immigration Department since October 2014. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

The Immigration Department failed to rein in spending on Australia's overseas immigration detention, which costs taxpayers more than half a million dollars a year for each asylum seeker, an audit has found.

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