Home Affairs awards $20 million maintenance contract for near-empty Christmas Island

The near-empty Christmas Island facility has cost the federal government almost $27 million since it was reopened last year.

A guard stands at the entry door during a tour of the North West Point Detention Centre on Christmas Island. Source: AAP

A phosphate mining company has scooped-up a $20 million “facilities management” contract at the Christmas Island detention centre for the next three years.

CI Resources Limited is an ASX-listed company with mining and agricultural interests on Christmas Island, a remote Australian territory in the Indian Ocean.

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