Australia and Nauru signed a treaty that promised AU $140 million in financial assistance to Nauru. The purpose of this ...

Have you heard the one about the judge who allowed an Albanian criminal to appeal against deportation on the grounds his son doesn’t like foreign chicken nuggets?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor government announced last Sunday that it had struck a deal with the tiny remote Pacific country of Nauru, initially to take three immigration detainees.

At least 12 refugees and asylum seekers have died in Australian immigration detention centres on Manus and Nauru, either by murder by guards or suicide or medical neglect, according to human ...

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced the deal with Nauru on Sunday, saying all three were "violent offenders". The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre ... being held in detention," he said.

Urgent applications to the High Court and Federal Court have halted the federal government's deportation to Nauru of three non ... found that their indefinite detention was unlawful.

They were held in two detention centres -- one on Nauru and another, since shuttered, on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island. The scheme was gradually scaled back following 14 detainee deaths ...

Because of the government's new laws they are still in detention, rather than being out in the community. "We will proceed with removal to Nauru as soon as possible." The Human Rights Law Centre ...