Nick Feik

One of the ways we're doing that is by helping to prop up Nauru Airlines, a company riven with financial, governance, and safety issues.

Today, independent journalist Nick Falk on how our relationship with a foreign commercial airline is compromising the Australian government's own regulators, departments, and procurement processes in the name of immigration detention.

It's Thursday, September 24.

Nick, you started your reporting on this with a question, and that was, "Why is it that Nauru, which is this tiny micronation with no real tourism trade to speak of, maybe a few thousand residents, why does it have an international commercial airline?" Tell me what first intrigued you about Nauru Airlines.