Ruby Jones
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75 recordings
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first heard May 2026
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I'm Ruby Jones and you're listening to 7am.
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It's an uncomfortable fact our government doesn't like to face.
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25 years on from the Tampa affair, we're still paying a tiny island micronation hundreds of millions of dollars to keep immigration detention alive.
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One of the ways we're doing that is by helping to prop up Nauru Airlines, a company riven with financial, governance and safety issues.
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Today, independent journalist Nick Fyke on how our relationship with a foreign commercial airline is compromising the Australian government's own regulators, departments and procurement processes in the name of immigration detention.
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It's Thursday, September 24th.
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Nick, you started your reporting on this with a question, and that was, why is it that Nauru, which is this tiny micronation with no real tourism trade to speak of, maybe a few thousand residents, why does it have an international commercial airline?
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Tell me what first intrigued you about Nauru Airlines.
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Okay, so before we go on, tell me a bit more about where Australia's relationship with Nauru is at now in 2026 and how many asylum seekers are currently there?
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Right.
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And so tell me more about what you uncovered.
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Okay, so this $104 million contract that Home Affairs has in place, who is it with?
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Okay, so the Department of Home Affairs, it needs the ability to fly to and from Nauru.
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The Nauruan government says that it's only going to allow its airline, Nauru Airline, planes to land there.
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So why does this contract exist through two different companies?
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What is the point of all of this?
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Coming up, the long list of safety incidents connected to Nauru Airlines.
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Nick, you've uncovered issues with Nauru Airlines and this contract with the Department of Home Affairs, but you've also dug into the airline's finances as well as the way that it's being run, its governance.
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Tell me what you've uncovered there.
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Okay.
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