The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is demanding answers from the Albanese Government following explosive new whistleblower revelations aired on 60 Minutes tonight, exposing corruption, cover-ups and criminal infiltration at the heart of Australia’s offshore detention regime.

A senior Home Affairs official, Dr Derek Elias, has risked jail to speak out about systemic rorting and graft in the Nauru detention system – detailing how millions in taxpayer funds were funnelled through secretive contracts to enrich private companies and corrupt officials.

His testimony follows that of former Australian soldier Oisin Donohoe, who revealed that members of the Finks bikie gang had been contracted to run security operations under Australia’s latest $2.5 billion offshore deal with Nauru.

The whistleblowers’ evidence paints a devastating picture of a government system “enabling corruption,” where millions of dollars were paid for services “no longer required or delivered,” and where Home Affairs officials were pressured to cover up wrongdoing to keep the offshore system running at any cost. Tens of millions of dollars have allegedly flowed to companies linked to bikie gangs and corrupt Nauruan politicians. Contractors have allegedly used public funds to pay for luxury cars, art, mansions and yachts.

These whistleblower revelations reveal a web of secrecy and cover-ups that have plagued offshore detention for more than a decade and continues today, where public money disappears...