Soldiers on leave act as guards at Manus Island detention centre

By Noel Towell, Michael Gordon
Updated April 12 2014 - 10:08am, first published 3:00am

Australian soldiers on leave from the army are enlisting for lucrative work as guards at Papua New Guinea's Manus detention camp amid claims of drug abuse and thuggish conduct among its newly recruited security force.

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