SYDNEY: Canberra came under pressure Monday to explain how an obscure firm with a beach shack as its registered office won contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars to provide security at Pacific refugee camps.

The Singapore-registered Paladin Holdings was awarded more than Aus$420 million (US$300 million) -- about Aus$17 million a month -- in contracts to provide services at three transition centres for refugees on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.

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