Duncan B.
Multinational companies are making vast profits out of the misery being inflicted on asylum seekers who reach Australian territory.
These
companies include Serco, G4S, Toll Group and International Health and Medical
Services. A number of smaller air transport and engineering companies are also
doing very well.
The
Rudd Government’ Papua New Guinea policy has resulted in an upsurge in activity
by the companies involved transporting equipment and setting up camps on Manus
Island.
Serco
controls 20 centres across Australia in a contract worth nearly $2billion. G4S
is a world-wide security company which has an $80 million eight months contract
for security services on Manus
Island
International
Health and Medical Services has reaped nearly $1 billion from contracts to
provide health services for asylum seekers in Australia and on Nauru and Manus
Island.
Canstruct
has contracts worth more than $140 million for work on Nauru. Decmil won a
contract worth about $150 million to build a detention centre on Manus Island.
Air-charter companies had contracts worth $41 million in the case of Adagold
Aviation, and $20 million in the in the case of Skytraders. Toll had
air-charter contract worth more than $11 million last year
Even
the Salvation Army received $74 for providing welfare services to refugees.
Serco
has become notorious for violations of human rights in the privatised prisons
it
controls
in England
Serco
has been accused of price-gouging, understaffing, under-training and
deliberately allowing detention centres to descend into chaos to extort more
funds from the Government.
Asylum
seekers must be treated humanely. They should be allowed to settle in the
community not be imprisoned in camps for the benefit of exploiters such as
Serco.
Further
Reading: Antony Lowenstein Profits of
Doom: How Vulture Capitalism Is Swallowing the World.
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