March 2022
Paladin directors narrowly avoid nuclear sell-off
Chairman Cliff Lawrenson and director Peter Watson sold 55 per cent of their shares in the uranium miner last week.
- Joe Aston
January 2021
- Exclusive
- Immigration
AFP didn't know of security firm's Paladin links
The AFP has admitted it didn't know Paladin director Craig Thrupp was connected to security firm Black Swan when it granted two extensions to a $1.8m government contract.
- Ronald Mizen
November 2020
- Exclusive
- Papua New Guinea
'Bitter litigation' reveals Paladin tax strategy
A bitter legal dispute between the owners of controversial security firm Paladin has revealed the company's strategy to minimise tax and discussions of sending profits to tax havens.
- Ronald Mizen
October 2020
How Paladin's directors made $71m, then fell out
The Paladin brand has become toxic, but its two shareholders have walked away with millions from the Manus Island contract.
- Ronald Mizen and Angus Grigg
- Exclusive
- Papua New Guinea
AFP rehired Paladin subsidiary after CEO removal demand
A subsidiary of Paladin had a $1.8 million government contract extended just months after the Department of Home Affairs demanded the removal of a key executive.
- Ronald Mizen
- Exclusive
- Papua New Guinea
Paladin to wind up as damaged brand haunts prospects
Managing director David Saul says negative publicity and the coronavirus restrictions mean there is no chance of securing new work.
- Ronald Mizen
- Exclusive
- Papua New Guinea
Paladin owners pocket $71m, fallout with KPMG
The owners of controversial security firm Paladin received $71 million in dividends in 2019, the year its $532 million refugee contract on Manus Island came to an end.
- Ronald Mizen
July 2020
Paladin profited $1.3m a week from refugee contract, director says
Former director Ian Stewart is seeking $50 million in unpaid wages and bonuses in a claim that sheds light on the security company's lucrative government contract.
- Angus Grigg, Lisa Murray and Jonathan Shapiro
May 2020
Home Affairs rebuked over Paladin's $532m contract
The Auditor General said taxpayers did not get "value for money" on the multimillion-dollar Manus Island contracts by a company with $6 million revenue.
- Angus Grigg, Lisa Murray and Jonathan Shapiro
January 2020
Paladin flares again as former director breaks silence
The firm's $532 million contract with the federal government faces renewed scrutiny ahead of an important report from the Auditor-General.
- Angus Grigg and Lisa Murray
September 2019
Paladin fined more than 3700 times in a year
The Manus Island contractor failed to meet minimum performance standards 3740 times in a year.
- Angus Grigg, Lisa Murray, Jonathan Shapiro and Edmund Tadros
- Opinion
- Opinion
Paladin is a Pacific own goal for Australia
The federal government signed up Paladin in desperation and rarely checked on them. It sends a bad message in a sensitive region.
- The AFR View
Home Affairs: too scared to visit Manus
It was Home Affairs' second largest contract but the Paladin Papers reveal how there was little oversight for $532 million in taxpayers' money.
- Angus Grigg, Edmund Tadros, Jonathan Shapiro and Lisa Murray
Paladin's 'high risk' contract with Peren had no corruption oversight
Home Affairs has been criticised for not be alert to potential fraud and corruption from Paladin's politically connected sub-contractors.
- Angus Grigg and Lisa Murray
EY criticises KPMG's Paladin report
Ernst & Young said the assessment provided by KPMG was problematic because the accounting firm had a business relationship with Paladin, and it was based only on unaudited financial statements.
- Edmund Tadros, Lisa Murray, Angus Grigg and Jonathan Shapiro
August 2019
Paladin asked Home Affairs about 'unforeseen bribes'
The security firm asked whether the department should be "obligated to help out" with "unforeseen bribes" during negotiations over its contract.
- Lisa Murray, Angus Grigg, Jonathan Shapiro and Edmund Tadros
Revealed: Paladin fined over 1000 times
Security firm Paladin was fined more than a thousand times for "performance failures" by the Home Affairs department, even as officials insisted they were happy with its delivery of a $532 million contract, new documents show.
- Angus Grigg, Lisa Murray, Jonathan Shapiro and Edmund Tadros
- Exclusive
- Papua New Guinea
Manus Island to shut after six difficult years
The closure of Australia's refugee processing centres on Manus will end Paladin's controversial $532 million contract.
- Angus Grigg
July 2019
- Exclusive
- Papua New Guinea
New PNG Police minister to target Paladin, UBS
The outspoken opposition figure, Bryan Kramer, was a surprise appointment to the new cabinet of Prime Minister James Marape.
- Angus Grigg, Lisa Murray and Jonathan Shapiro
PNG PM James Marape puts foreign companies on notice
Papua New Guinea's new prime minister has put foreign companies on notice that the Pacific nation must reap more benefits from resource projects.
- Lisa Murray, Angus Grigg and Jonathan Shapiro