Nic Maclellan

Nic Maclellan works as a journalist and researcher in the Pacific Islands. He has written widely on labour mobility, human rights and uprooted peoples in the islands region, and is co-author of A Price Too High: The Cost of Australia’s Approach to Asylum Seekers.

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Published in Overland Issue 212 Spring 2013 · Politics

What has Australia done to Nauru?

Nic Maclellan

In the hours before the riot, Nauru’s justice minister, David Adeang, suspended the country’s police commissioner – Australian Federal Police (AFP) officer Richard Britten. People may be surprised to learn that an Australian was leading the police force in Nauru – but over the last decade, the process of warehousing asylum seekers in the small Pacific nation has increased the number of Australian and expatriate officials in key departments within the country’s administration, including finance, policing, utilities and planning.