Wilson Security is an Australian

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. In 2014 it acquired the security contracts of

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Security in Australia and First Security Business in

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. Wilson Security is a part of the Wilson Group which is Hong Kong owned. In 2015 it was a subcontractor of

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at Australian offshore detention facilities (the others being managed by

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at the time). At the time, Wilson had been working on

Nauru Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru ( na, Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Ki ...

since late 2012, and on

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since February 2014.

Controversies

In August 2015, two former Wilson Security guards spoke out against the company in an interview for the

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's '' The 7.30 Report''. They, among others, accused Wilson Security and

/Transfield of providing misleading information to the Australian Parliament, and covering up malpractice at the Nauru Centre. They also claimed that a spying operation against Senator

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which was first revealed in June 2015, was more extensive than Wilson Security or Broadspectrum/Transfield had admitted. In March 2017, two Australian employees of Wilson Security were deported to Australia by the Government of

, for unspecified reasons. In February 2018, the

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dropped its contract with Wilson Security due to protests by artists over Wilson Security's role on Manus and Nauru.

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