BACKGROUND
Showing posts with label National Party of Australia. Show all posts
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Tuesday 26 February 2019
Sad statistics are generated by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's war on the poor & vulnerable
Liberal MP for Cook Scott John Morrison has been a
Cabinet Minister since 18.9.2013, was Minister for Social Services from
23.12.2014 to 21.9.2015, then Treasurer from 21.9.2015 to 26.8.2018 and now Prime
Minister of Australia since 24.8.2018 – these are the sad statistics he leaves
in his wake.
The Australian, 21 February 2019:
As Department of Human
Services secretary Renee Leon faced heated questioning about the controversial
“robodebt” program — which averages reported income and generates debts to
current and former welfare recipients — she said it is not known whether people
have taken their own lives due to the program.
“There is not an
elevated death rate among the cohort who have received a debt notice. It’s not
to say we are not troubled that people die,” Ms Leon said…
Greens Senator Rachel
Siewert said the numbers are particularly troubling because 663 people out of
the 2030 had “vulnerability indicators” attached.
Of the 2,030 people who died after receiving a Centrelink
Online
Compliance Intervention letter (‘robodebt’ ) which was generated sometime
between July 2016 to October 2018:
102 were aged
16-25 years;
327 were aged
26-35 years;
347 were aged
36-45 years;
466 were aged
46-55 years;
536 were aged
56-65 years;
251 were aged
66-80 years; and
1 was aged 81-100
years.
By gender 637 of these welfare recipients were Female and 1,393 Male.
“If death rates remained
similar throughout the period July 2016 - October 2018 ... approximately 6% of
all deaths of 16-35 year olds in Australia occurred for people who were subject
to Centrelink #robodebt compliance.” [Dr Ben Eltham on Twitter,
22 February 2019]
BACKGROUND
Gilbert Sullivan QC weiting in the Herald
Sun, 21 February 2019:
The Model Litigant
Policy of the Commonwealth is a direction issued by the Attorney-General under
the Judiciary Act.
The claims reported to
have been made by Centrelink are said to target 1.5 million people and aim to
claw back $4.6 billion in what are alleged to be overpayments of welfare.
The claims date back to
2010 and Centrelink demands the repayment of what it alleges to be overpayments
caused by the understatement of income; but it knows very well that it is
unable to prove these claims.
Centrelink has destroyed
its records and is entirely dependent on information obtained from the
Australian Taxation Office. It divides the gross annual income obtained in this
way by 26 to calculate what it terms an “apportioned actual income”.
It then proceeds to claim
the difference between the fortnightly income declared by the payee and the
apportioned actual income as an understatement by the recipient which it then
claims as a debt.
It is only by sighting
pay-slips or bank statements that the accuracy of the declared fortnightly
income can be verified. Centrelink’s claims rest on it proving that the
fortnightly income was falsely declared.
It can only succeed if
it can prove this on the balance of probabilities. The ATO information on its
own is worthless and needs a point of comparison in the form of contemporaneous
records. Annual income does not translate into fortnightly income.
The absurdity of this
methodology is obvious.
A full-time student in
2010 on a youth allowance may well have had a part-time job to support their
studies. Some weeks they may have earned, say $150, other weeks nothing.
They may have entered
the work force full-time in the last two months of the financial year and
earned say, $8000.
Dividing the yearly
income by 26 cannot establish a dishonest understatement for the weeks the
student earned $150 or nothing. Without the contemporary records, no
understatement can be proved.
This methodology is in
breach of model litigant obligations in a number of respects.
First, the mathematical
basis underpinning it is invalid and known to be so by Centrelink; and the
maintenance of a claim known to be invalid is a fundamental breach of the
obligation to act as a model litigant.
Second, to imagine that
casual employees retain pay slips from 2010 is ludicrous; many of the employers
from that time no longer exist and it is inconceivable that anyone can produce
pay-slips.
Further, while some bank
records are obtainable, they are archived and expensive to obtain. Placing the
onus on a recipient to procure bank statements is yet a further breach of model
litigant obligations.
There is no reason why
Centrelink could not obtain these records by subpoena or otherwise.
Furthermore, the actions of Centrelink reverse the onus of proof which, of
itself, is a breach of model litigant obligations.
MammaMia, 21 February 2019:
“It was demeaning,
embarrassing, and if it wasn’t for my son… I considered suicide.”
“It was dehumanising. I
had only lost my husband months before… I was grieving.”
These two sentences
represent how two women, from two different walks of life, in separate states
felt – when they received a Centrelink
debt notice.
Or more exactly what
happened when they tried to deal with the fallout of a
Centrelink debt notice……
The Centrelink letters
are sent out through an automated system. In the old system, it equated to
about 20,000 a year, but thanks to a new system in 2016 – it’s generating
20,000 letters a week.
Gabriella* received one
of those letters just last year.
She received it when she
was trying to come to terms with the death of her husband who had died in a
boating accident a few months before.
She was left with two
young children trying to work out how to move on with life.
She had never received
anything from Centrelink, she hadn’t needed to. But Centrelink had sent her
$13,000 in weekly increments, and they wanted their money back.
“The stress… I was
already dealing with enough… I knew I didn’t owe them money,” she told Mamamia.
Turns out Centrelink had
been sending her money that she hadn’t applied for – which had been bouncing
back for months.
“I made a phone call
first, they realised they’d made a mistake. But she [the person on the phone]
couldn’t fix it.”
She was given a
different number.
“I spent hours on the
telephone waiting for them to answer [to help]. It’s impossible to get
through,” explained Gabriella.
So instead, she was
forced to take a day off work and go into the Centrelink office itself.
“She looked at me like I
was lying,” Gabriella told Mamamia, of the moment she explained her
story – yet again.
Gabriella is most
frustrated at the time and effort she had to put in to fix this wrong. A wrong
that was made by an automated letter, and which cost her a days’ wage, and
almost cost her $13,000.
“I am grieving, but I am
pretty stable… my head is pretty OK. But there are people who get these letters
and they are not OK,” said a teary Gabriella.
“I am actually in the
mental health industry, so I am probably more equipped than a lot at noticing
triggers in myself. But what if I wasn’t?
“My situation never
should have happened, if there had been a human being looking at my account
they would have realised it was bouncing back.”
“It was dismay. It was a
shock to the system. It is scaremongering, they don’t explain anything, and
it’s very… dehumanising,” she said of her experience..........
Monday 25 February 2019
Happy 49th to our local member, Nationals MP for Page Kevin Hogan
Happy 49th Newspoll, Kevin John Hogan.
That's forty-nine published Newspoll surveys in a row in which the Coaltion has failed to pull ahead of Labor on a Two-Party Preferred (TPP) basis.
The last time the federal government - of which you have been a member since September 2013 under prime ministers Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison - has been ahead of Labor was on 27 June 2016.
That lasted a full thirty-five five days because by 30 August the gloss had worn off that July federal election win and you could only reach TPP 50 points in the August 2016 Newspoll.
In late September of that year the Coalition lost even that small comfort as Labor began to out poll the Turnbull Government and then the Morrison Government.
If you are wondering why this is happening the answer is easy to find. Turn a few pages of Hansard.
Every government backbencher, yourself included, votes on the floor of Parliament not in the interests of their electorate or that of the nation but in support of the hard-right ideology which dominates the Coalition Cabinet to the exclusion of even basic commonsense.
You have nobody to blame but yourselves.
So enjoy your 49th Kevin because your 50th is likely to be close on its heels.
*Image from Greeting Card Universe
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Newspoll survey of 1,582 respondents on
21-24 February 2019 was released on Monday 25 February:
Primary Vote – Labor 39 percent (unchanged) to Liberal-Nationals
37 per cent (unchanged), The Greens 9 per cent, One Nation 5 per cent.
Two Party Preferred (TPP) - Labor 53 per cent (unchanged) to Liberal-Nationals
Coalition 47 per cent (unchanged)
Voter Net Satisfaction With Leaders’
Performance – Prime Minister
Scott Morrison -6 points and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten -18 points.
If a federal election had been held on 24 February 2019 based of the preference flow in July 2016 then Labor would have won government with a majority 82 seats to the Coalition's 63 seats in the House of Representatives.
Friday 22 February 2019
People in rural and regional Australia – those bearing the brunt of climate change, drought, floods, limited services and inadequate infrastructure – deserve to know how the Morrison Government is spending their hard-earned tax dollars
Scratch the
surface of that mismanaged super federal government department – the Dept. of Home Affairs in the portfolio
of Minister for Home Affairs & Liberal MP for Dickson Peter Dutton – and one finds disturbing information.
Usually this information concerns the abuse of detained asylum seekers' human rights, including right to timely medical treatment and legal advice/representation.
This latest concerns a corporate entity variously identified as the Paladin Group (Paladin Australia Pty
Ltd, formerly Paladin Group Pty Ltd, High Risk Security Group (Asia-Pacific)
Pty Ltd, Nepean Bay SA), Paladin
Solution PNG Ltd (Nepean Bay SA) and Paladin
Holdings PTE Ltd (Singapore) and its est. $423 million in federal government
contracts paid for from the taxpayer's dollar.
It is Paladin
Holdings PTE Ltd out of Singapore (reportedly owned by Craig Trupp and Ian
Stewart) which now appears to hold the primary government contract.
Despite Paladin's thin capitalisation, despite lack of corporate transparency, despite allegations of poor service delivery, despite Craig Trupp/s less than stellar business history and the fact that it appears he is no longer allowed entry to Papua New Guinea and despite another director of Paladin Solutions PNG Ltd allegedly being investigated for fraud/money laundering the Dept. of Home Affairs continues to make exclusive contacts with the Paladin Group.
Despite Paladin's thin capitalisation, despite lack of corporate transparency, despite allegations of poor service delivery, despite Craig Trupp/s less than stellar business history and the fact that it appears he is no longer allowed entry to Papua New Guinea and despite another director of Paladin Solutions PNG Ltd allegedly being investigated for fraud/money laundering the Dept. of Home Affairs continues to make exclusive contacts with the Paladin Group.
This Paladin
contract is fast shaping up as the new catchphrase for suspected political
corruption………..
Paladin premises, Port Moresby. Image Dan Ilic |
Financial
Review, 17
February 2019:
The family of one of
PNG's most powerful politicians is directly benefiting from Paladin's $423
million worth of security contracts on Manus Island, awarded by the federal
government in a closed tender.
Documents released under
Freedom of Information show in January last year Paladin Solutions PNG entered
into an agreement with Peren Investment, a company controlled by the brothers
of PNG's parliamentary speaker, Job Pomat.
Mr Pomat is the local
member for Manus, a key ally of Prime Minister Peter O'Neill and deputy leader
of the ruling People's National Congress. His family are among those who claim
traditional ownership of the land where the refugees are being housed.
The agreement, for local
employment and the provision of other services, came just a month after
landowners blockaded the refugee transit centre in December 2017, demanding a
greater share of the money being spent on the island.
When asked about any
link between Paladin and PNG politicians, Attorney-General Christian Porter said
it was not in his portfolio area, but such claims warranted further
investigation.
"I don't have any
line of sight into those sorts of claims and they have to be investigated
thoroughly," he told the ABC's Insiders program on Sunday.
The issue is set to be
examined further at Senate Estimates hearings on Monday and Tuesday, after a
series of articles in the The Australian Financial Review raised
questions about how the thinly
capitalised Paladin, which had little experience, a poor reputation and no
corporate structure, was awarded such a lucrative contract.
The contracts were
awarded as part of a "limited tender", which typically means only one
party was invited to bid.
In the days following
the first Financial Review articles Paladin shuffled its ownership
structure, removed information from its website and changed its Australian
registered office from a beach shack on Kangaroo Island to a serviced office in
Canberra. That office did not have the phone connected on Friday.
Financial
Review, 15
February 2019:
One issue that raised
concern was Paladin's peculiar head office set-up. The Kangaroo Island address
had no listed phone number and could not receive mail from Australia Post,
highlighting a general air of secrecy around the company.
The
Financial Review,
13 February 2019:
Home Affairs Minister
Peter Dutton has moved to distance himself from a controversial government
contractor that is providing security on Manus Island, arguing he had "no
sight" of the tender process and it was a matter for department officials.
In the first public
comments since The Australian Financial Review revealed little-known
company Paladin was earning up to $17 million a month to provide
security at three refugee centres on Manus Island after a closed tender
process, Mr Dutton said those responsible were "the secretary of the
department ultimately or delegated to someone within the department".
The
Financial Review,
11 February 2019:
The key beneficiary of a
$423 million government contract to provide security for refugees on Manus
Island left a string of bad debts and failed contracts across Asia, raising
further questions about how the Paladin group won such a lucrative tender.
As pressure builds on
the government to explain the hefty cost of its offshore processing regime,
further details have emerged about the Paladin founder, Craig Thrupp, and his
time in East Timor and Indonesia.
The
Financial Review,
10 February 2019:
As federal Parliament
prepares for another fractious debate around refugees on Monday, an
investigation by The Australian Financial Review has found the
Department of Home Affairs overlooked allegations of deception, lying during
the tender process and questionable payments when it extended Paladin's
contract on January 3. These allegations emerged during a bitter legal dispute
between Paladin and its former chief executive for PNG, Craig Coleman, who is
suing the company for breach of contract.
In addition, Paladin's
founder and key executive, Craig Thrupp, is no longer able to enter PNG, while
another local director, Kisokau Powaseu, was detained in Port Moresby last
month and charged with misappropriating funds and money laundering……
Paladin, controlled by
Mr Thrupp, a former Australian soldier, and his business partner Ian Stewart,
has also recently purchased the contentious PNG security outfit Black Swan, a
company repeatedly
forced to deny rumours it has links to the family of Prime Minister Peter
O'Neill…..
"Australian
taxpayers are expending a huge amount of money but we don't see much of it
being utilised on the ground in Manus," said Abdul Aziz, a Sudanese
refugee who has been on the island for five years.
"The maintenance
service is very poor … and they have not bought any new equipment in many
years," says Mr Aziz.
This was confirmed by a
UNHCR report published last July which noted rooms at the East Lorengau camp
were below international shelter standards for accommodation over three months,
while other areas had leaking pipes, a lack of fire alarms and showers that
were not working.
The report did however
note improvements in other areas like the ratio of toilets and the general
accommodation conditions in other camps.
Calculations by
the Financial Review indicate Paladin is being paid on average $20.8
million a month by the government to provide security at all three sites and
manage the East Lorengau Transit Centre. That amount has risen 48 per cent from
an average of $14 million a month last year. A Home Affairs spokesperson said
there were now 422 people housed at the three camps – 213 at East Lorengau, 111
at West Lorengau and 98 asylum seekers at Hillside Haus.
That means on a daily
basis it now costs the Australian government over $1600 to house each refugee
on Manus, not including food and welfare services, more than double the price
of a suite at the Shangri-La hotel in Sydney.
Typically, profit
margins are as much as 40 per cent on these contracts because of the risks
involved. However, Paladin's margin is "unbelievable", according to
one source familiar with the this type of work. That's because the company uses
mostly local staff and its security guards earn about $2 an hour.
The company is believed
to have just over a dozen expatriate staff, who might be earning $150,000 each.
Home Affairs says it provides security, transport, IT services and emergency
management. Even if you build in generous contingencies for evacuations,
emergency response teams and local consultants, Paladin's total costs are
estimated to be less than $3 million a month. That means they are pocketing
more than $17 million a month to manage the East Lorengau centre and secure the
three camps, which have been used as primary accommodation for refugees and
asylum seekers since the offshore processing centre at the nearby Lombrum naval
base was closed in October 2017.
The
Guardian, 17
February 2019:
Penny Wong has
indicated Labor will target the Paladin offshore detention security contract in
Senate estimates this week, accusing the government of failing to explain why
the company was awarded $420m in contracts through closed tender…..
Wong told reporters in
Adelaide the Paladin contract had “a lot of questions around it” and it was
“deeply concerning” a company with “such a poor track record” was awarded
$420m.
Wong accused Porter of
giving answers that were “not consistent” with Dutton’s because “this went to a
closed tender – not an open tender, [it was] not an open competitive process”.
Wong accused Dutton of
“trying to wash [his] hands of it”. “Tomorrow is Senate estimates – what I’d
say to the government is: stop hiding.
“Why don’t you front up
and tell the truth about why that contract is awarded in such circumstances,
why it went to closed tender?”
Financial
Review, 18
February 2019:
Paladin, the security firm at the centre of the $423 million contract
scandalhas a secret office in Canberra, just three kilometres from
Parliament House.
The Australian Financial
Review visited an office location near the fashionable Kingston Foreshore
precinct in which Paladin staff are based.
That address, however,
is different to the Canberra location that was provided to corporate regulators as
the company's registered office and principal place of business, in a filing
last week.
Paladin had previously
advised the corporate regulator that its registered office and principal place
of business was a remote location on Kangaroo Island in South Australia that
had no post box and was therefore unable to receive mail.
But as coverage of the
secretive company, which has been awarded contracts totalling $423 million to
provide security on Manus Island, has intensified, Paladin has since made
changes to its address and shareholder structure.
Paladin Australia
notified regulators that its shareholding had transferred from the company's
Hong Kong-registered entity to the Singapore company, which is the entity
granted a government contract worth $333 million. The company is owned by 38-year-old, Canberra-born former soldier CraigThrupp and 41-year-old Ian Duncan Stewart.
On Thursday, Paladin
Australia also changed its registered address to a serviced office in the suburb
of Barton. As of Friday, the company had not been set up with phones to receive
calls.
But sources with
knowledge of the company, said Paladin actually operated out of another
Canberra location on Eyre Street in the Kingston district.
That address is two
kilometres away from the Servcorp address provided to regulators.
There's no signage or
branding of any kind outside the office and apartment block and the ground
floor workspaces are covered by heavy blinds.
When the Financial
Review buzzed the intercom for the unmarked offices on the ground floor, a
woman answered and Mr Thrupp came to the entrance.
He did not identify
himself or make any comment before going back inside the locked entrance.
Staff walked back and
forth between the two secure office areas, using electronic access cards to
enter and exit.
The secret office
location raises further questions about Paladin and its apparent attempts at
hiding its principal place of business.
Paladin's previously
registered office in Kangaroo Island had no mail box, which made it near
impossible for the company to receive mail and be served legal documents.
Paladin affair:
Fact-checking what Home Affairs said in Senate Estimates
The beach shack
Home Affairs dismissed
Paladin having its Australian head office at a "beach shack" on
Kangaroo Island as unimportant, saying that entity was not involved in
the Manus Island contract.
Court documents show
Paladin's former chief executive, Craig Coleman, who was the project director
for Manus Island and exercised control over the Commonwealth contract was
employed by the Australian company, which was registered to that beach shack on
Kangaroo Island.
In November 2017, two
months after Paladin Solutions signed its first letter of intent with the
Australian government it registered with Australian regulators as a foreign
entity. The registered office it provided was the "beach shack". Both
directors provided this location as their address.
Fraud and money
laundering
Home Affairs said
the Paladin director Kisokau Powaseu who has been charged with 106
counts of fraud and one of money laundering was not a director of any
entities contracted to the Commonwealth.
Under questioning Home
Affairs conceded Mr Powaseu was a director of Paladin Solutions, the entity
which received $89 million of payments after a letter of intent was signed in
September 2017.
Paladin Solutions is registered in PNG and is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Paladin Singapore, the entity which currently holds the
$333 million government contract. Mr Powaseu was appointed a director of the
company in May 2018.
In court documents
relating to Paladin's dispute with its former CEO Mr Coleman, the company
agrees Mr Powaseu was a director of Paladin Solutions PNG which was
"engaged with the Australian government".
The Paladin web
The department expanded
and contracted the Paladin group of companies at its convenience. On the issue
of Powaseu, the department was quick to stress the point that this individual
had no ties to Paladin Singapore, the entity contracted by the Australian
government. (This was later found to be inaccurate - see the Fraud and money
laundering section of this story.)
However, when the
department wished to demonstrate Paladin's long track record, it was prepared
to refer to other companies in the group including Paladin Solutions, Pomwan
Paladin and Paladin Aus.
'Global' Company
Home Affairs also relied
on Paladin's collection of subsidiaries in stressing it was "a global
company" with clients across the region. Deputy secretary Cheryl-Anne Moy
said Paladin has "a very extensive and a very experienced operation"
listing among its key clients the Australian Defence Force, which used it for
APEC security support and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for which
it had provided security in Port Moresby for nearly three years.
The department later
clarified that those clients had come to the firm via Paladin's mysterious purchase of one of PNG's biggest private
security firms, Black Swan, in July last year. That was followed by an
interjection from one of the senators who said the purchase had come about
because "you gave them so much money." At the time the government
awarded Paladin the sizeable contract, it did not have these clients.
Home Affairs also
conceded Paladin's lack of experience in dealing with sizeable contracts
had been one of the risks identified during the tender process. While
Paladin had been operating on Manus Island, as a subcontractor to Broadspectrum
and Wilson Security, these had been much smaller contracts.
In his statement of
claim, former CEO Mr Coleman claimed just three weeks before being awarded the
September 2017 contract Paladin was "not well prepared to perform the role
provided for under the Proposal".
"Paladin did not
have the corporate structure, human and other resources or processes that would
permit it … to perform the roles required under the Proposal," he alleged.
Money up front
When asked whether
Paladin was advanced $10 million of funds by the government prior to delivering
services as part of the contract, Home Affairs initially said this was false.
Upon further
questioning, it emerged Paladin was paid $5.5 million as part of a letter of
intent ahead of any services it provided and subsequently received further
payments totalling $89 million before a formal contract had been agreed.
Access denied
Home Affairs said it had
to check whether it was made directly aware Paladin managing director and part-owner Craig Thrupp was
unable to enter PNG.
That is despite the PNG
government confirming on Monday "the visa of one of the directors of the
company [Paladin] was cancelled because of the company not adhering to the
government's position on recruitment of local labour".
Paladin also confirmed
to the Financial Review a week earlier Mr Thrupp's APEC Permit (a
regional visa) had been cancelled and said since then he had not attempted to
enter PNG…..
BACKGROUND
Australian Government,
AusTender,
retrieved 18 February 2019:
CN ID: CN3496748-A2
Agency: Department of
Home Affairs
Amendment Publish Date: 3-Jan-2019
Category: Management
support services
Contract Period: 28-Feb-2018
to 30-Jun-2019
Contract Value (AUD): $333,546,146.40
Amendment Value (AUD): $109,239,312.00
Amendment Start Date: 1-Jan-2019
Description: Garrison
Services at ELRTC & additional sites PNG
Parent CN: CN3496748
Procurement Method: Limited
tender
Limited Tender
Condition: 10.3.e. Additional deliveries by original supplier intended as
replacement parts, extensions, or continuation for existing goods or services
for compatibility.
Confidentiality -
Contract: No
Confidentiality -
Outputs: No
Consultancy: No
Agency Reference ID:0070021821
Supplier Details
Name: PALADIN HOLDINGS
PTE LTD
Postal Address: 4
Battery Road China Building
Town/City: Singapore
Postcode: 049908
State/Territory: Outside
Australia
Country: SINGAPORE
ABN: Exempt
____________________________________
CN ID: CN3496748-A1
Agency: Department of
Home Affairs
Amendment Publish Date: 29-Oct-2018
Category: Management
support services
Contract Period: 28-Feb-2018
to 30-Jun-2019
Contract Value (AUD): $224,306,834.40
Amendment Value (AUD): $47,430,000.00
Amendment Start Date:
1-Nov-2018 Description: Garrison
Services at ELRTC & additional sites PNG
Parent CN: CN3496748
Procurement Method: Limited
tender
Limited Tender
Condition: 10.3.e. Additional deliveries by original supplier intended as
replacement parts, extensions, or continuation for existing goods or services
for compatibility.
Confidentiality -
Contract: No
Confidentiality -
Outputs: No
Consultancy: No
Agency Reference ID: 0070021821
Supplier Details
Name: PALADIN HOLDINGS
PTE LTD
Postal Address: 4
Battery Road China Building
Town/City: Singapore Postcode:
049908
State/Territory: Outside
Australia
Country: SINGAPORE
ABN: Exempt
____________________________________
Provision of Garrison
Services at East Lorengau Refugee Transit Centre, Manus
CN ID: CN3470670
Agency: Department of
Home Affairs
Publish Date: 27-Nov-2017
Category: Management
support services
Contract Period: 21-Sep-2017
to 28-Feb-2018
Contract Value (AUD): $89,243,817.76 [contract value delivered by four separate letters of
intent as per Senate Estimates Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee
evidence on 18.02.2019]
Original: $39,743,817.76
Description: Provision
of Garrison Services at East Lorengau Refugee Transit Centre Manus
Amendments:
CN3470670-A2 -
change to contract term & value (23-Feb-2018)
Amendment Value (AUD): $16,500,000.00
CN3470670-A1 -
Increased value and extended end date (28-Dec-2017)
Contract Value (AUD): $72,743,817.76
Procurement Method: Limited
tender
Limited Tender
Exemption: Paragraph 2.6 was applied in some part. [This contract was a direct
approach to Paladin by way of an initial special measures arrangement as per
Senate Estimates Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee evidence
on 18.02.2019. A departmental decision was later taken to include future
contacts with Paladin Holdings Singapore as special measures rather than
conduct open tenders]
ATM ID: RFQ1750034
Confidentiality -
Contract: No
Confidentiality -
Outputs: No
Consultancy:No
Agency Reference ID: 0070020581
Supplier Details
Name: PALADIN SOLUTIONS
PNG LTD
Postal Address:
PARK TOWER ANNEX,
SECTION 25, ALLOTMENT 35, HUNTERS STREET, GRANVILLE
Town/City: NATIONAL
CAPITAL DISTRICT
Postcode:125
State/Territory: Outside
Australia
Country: PAPUA NEW
GUINEA
ABN: Exempt
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