Given the primacy that successive governments have placed on irregular migration, it is somewhat surprising that the main beneficiaries of the various efforts to stop the boats seem to be a number of private companies contracted by the government on somewhat opaque terms.
The costs involved in the mismanagement of the migration crisis – no fault of the asylum seekers – are steep enough already; it would at least offer some respect to the tax-paying public if there was a fuller accounting of their money.
