The Home Affairs Department has been accused of misleading a Senate committee over its failure to disclose that Craig Thrupp, the managing director of security firm Paladin, was removed from a $423 million refugee service contract on Manus Island.
During an often heated morning of estimates hearings in Canberra on Thursday, Home Affairs Secretary Mike Pezzullo and his staff came under repeated attack from Labor and crossbenchers over their handling of the lucrative refugee contracts.
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