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Australia has twice used Nauru – and its beholden and broke government – as a remote site for the "offshore processing" of people who seek asylum and protection.
In the early 21st century Christmas Island was the site of one of Australia's controversial Pacific Island detention centres for the offshore processing of Australia-bound asylum seekers.
The report into the procurement of garrison support and welfare services for the offshore processing centres on Manus Island and Nauru, released on Tuesday, found the department had "fallen well short of effective procurement practice" in negotiating more than $3bn worth of contracts for both centres since they were reopened in 2012.
Chevron Australia Pty Ltd has awarded Technip a front end engineering design (FEED) contract for the offshore processing platform associated with the Wheatstone Project in Australia.
Crépeau also rejected Australia's claim that Nauru and PNG were responsible for the offshore processing centers.
Amnesty International called for an immediate independent investigation into the incident, and laid blame for the death at the feet of the offshore processing policy of Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Nauru has long shied from independent scrutiny of the offshore processing centre.
But in this election, the Conservatives are touting quotas for immigrants and the offshore processing of all asylum-seekers, while the UK Independence Party UKIPpromisesses "freedom from overcrowding" and an end to economic migration.
The United Nations, other national governments, numerous international human rights bodies and dozens of doctors and staff members from inside the camps have condemned the offshore processing regime and called for the Australian government to end the practice.
On Thursday the Australian immigration minister, Peter Dutton, told a Canberra-based thinktank the offshore processing relationship with Nauru would last "for decades".
It comes amid moves by the Australian immigration department to shift detainees out to other mainland facilities, a worsening mental health crisis in the offshore processing centres, and the sudden partial collapse of Australia's offshore processing policy.
