PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill cracks down on Manus detention centre's Australian staff

By Nicole Hasham
Updated August 5 2015 - 10:08pm, first published 9:17pm
PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill: "This is not the first time we have heard of inappropriate expatriate behaviour as a result of alcohol consumption, and this has to stop." Photo: Joosep Martinson
PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill: "This is not the first time we have heard of inappropriate expatriate behaviour as a result of alcohol consumption, and this has to stop." Photo: Joosep Martinson
The front entrance of the detention centre on Manus Island. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
The front entrance of the detention centre on Manus Island. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

A company paid about $440 million a year to run the Manus Island detention centre is allowing drunken staff to misbehave, the Papua New Guinea government says, ordering its own officials to intervene after Australian workers allegedly sexually assaulted a local female employee.

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