Fed: Privatised detention makes settlement difficult: Newhouse

AAP General News (Australia)
04-09-2007
Fed: Privatised detention makes settlement difficult: Newhouse

CORNELIA RAU'S fight for compensation for being wrongfully detained as an illegal immigrant
.. is moving to the NSW Supreme Court.

Lawyers for the German-born Australian say negotiations with the federal government
have broken down .. over who was technically responsible for the 10 months she was held
in a Brisbane prison and the Baxter detention centre in South Australia in 2004 and 2005.

Solicitor GEORGE NEWHOUSE says the matter's complicated .. because the government contracted
out the running of the now defunct Baxter facility to a private company.

If successful .. legal sources estimate Ms RAU's compensation claim against the government
could be worth up to a million dollars.

AAP RTV dcr/maur/jmt

KEYWORD: RAU NEWHOUSE (CANBERRA)

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