Tensions erupt on Manus Island over detention centre cash grab

Manus Island locals want better deal from Australia

Radio Australia

Tensions erupt on Manus Island as locals threaten to sabotage "PNG Solution" detention centre  Herald Sun

AUSTRALIAN taxpayers are already pouring around $500,000 per asylum seeker into Manus Island under Kevin Rudd's rushed "PNG Solution" - but the money pot is igniting bitter clashes in the jungle between angry locals trying to cash in.

One Manus Island tribal leader is threatening to sabotage the makeshift detention centre by cutting off water this week unless its demands for 291,000 kina (137,000 Australian dollars) in "rent" are paid.

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Protests on Manus Island NEWS.com.au

LANDOWNERS on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island are demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation from the Australian government
 
Labor's follies are now hurting Manus Island The Daily Telegraph

No other issue defines the troubles of the Labor government quite so graphically as border protection