Government has 'contempt' for Christmas Islanders: Stanhope

By Noel Towell
Updated September 24 2014 - 12:18am, first published September 23 2014 - 10:48am
Outgoing administrator of Christmas Island Jon Stanhope at Dolly Beach, which is littered with plastic rubbish. Photo: Tony McDonoough
Outgoing administrator of Christmas Island Jon Stanhope at Dolly Beach, which is littered with plastic rubbish. Photo: Tony McDonoough

The federal government holds the people of Christmas and Cocos Islands in "contempt",  according to the Commonwealth's own administrator of the Indian Ocean Territories.

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