{"id":59529,"date":"2023-10-31T06:56:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T21:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/31\/png-corruption-claims-investigation-australia-funded-refugee-program-papua-new-guinea"},"modified":"2023-10-31T06:56:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T21:56:30","slug":"png-to-investigate-corruption-claims-in-australia-funded-refugee-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59529","title":{"rendered":"PNG to investigate corruption claims in Australia-funded refugee program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Papua New Guinea\u2019s immigration minister John Rosso says whistleblower\u2019s \u2018serious allegations\u2019 revealed by the Guardian have prompted audit<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2023\/oct\/31\/australia-news-live-fire-queensland-tara-nsw-stan-grant-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-tony-burke-ir\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Allegations of widespread corruption and mismanagement within the Australia-funded refugee support program in Papua New Guinea will be formally investigated by the Port Moresby government.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/oct\/24\/australian-funds-for-asylum-seeker-welfare-in-png-gone-missing-whistleblower-papua-new-guinea\">allegations from a whistleblower<\/a> inside PNG\u2019s immigration authority that millions of dollars had potentially been misused, PNG\u2019s deputy prime minister, also the minister for immigration, John Rosso, has ordered an audit into where the money has gone.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/31\/png-corruption-claims-investigation-australia-funded-refugee-program-papua-new-guinea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Papua New Guinea\u2019s immigration minister John Rosso says whistleblower\u2019s \u2018serious allegations\u2019 revealed by the Guardian have prompted auditFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,388,324,267,494],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-australian-politics","category-papua-new-guinea","category-refugees"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59530,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59529\/revisions\/59530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}