Taxpayers billed for government mistake over Save the Children workers on Nauru

By Nicole Hasham
Updated May 6 2016 - 11:23pm, first published 2:15pm
Then immigration minister Scott Morrison ordered that 10 Save the Children staff be taken off Nauru, accusing them of orchestrating detainee protests.
Then immigration minister Scott Morrison ordered that 10 Save the Children staff be taken off Nauru, accusing them of orchestrating detainee protests.
Save the Children Australia staff who were working on Nauru have suffered mental illness, unemployment and travel bans following the incident. Photo: Craig Abraham
Save the Children Australia staff who were working on Nauru have suffered mental illness, unemployment and travel bans following the incident. Photo: Craig Abraham

The federal government has paid compensation to a charity group it wrongly accused of trying to embarrass the former Abbott administration by encouraging asylum seekers at Nauru to harm themselves, conceding the allegations were baseless.

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