Coroner slams government, Serco over Villawood deaths

A NSW coroner has issued a scathing report into the suicide deaths of three men within three months at the Villawood immigration detention centre in Sydney last year.

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She slammed both the Department of Immigration and the private company that runs the centre, Serco, using words such as 'careless' and 'chaotic'.

Emma Hannigan has more.




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