Labor and the Coalition are clashing on border security after a surge in the number of asylum seekers detained at Australia’s offshore processing centre in Nauru.

Abdul Karim Hekmat is a former detainee at the Curtin detention centre in Western Australia and a journalist. He has produced a video with refugees on Nauru that forms part of a new exhibition ...

Nauru's immigration detention centre has long shied away from public scrutiny, with access to the centre virtually impossible. Image: 'The Invisible' art exhibition in Sydney (SBS) Never-before ...

Australia set up a detention centre in Nauru in 2013 Australia says the last four migrant children detained at a camp on the Pacific island of Nauru are being moved to the US. The children will be ...

Australia set up a detention centre in Nauru in 2013 Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called for the immediate evacuation of all asylum seekers on Pacific nation Nauru ...

In addition, the Crimes Act 2016 decriminalises suicide, which became an issue after refugees deported from Australia to a controversial Nauru detention centre committed or attempted suicide.

Australia’s offshore detention policies have helped to produce indifference to the suffering of refugees. Pushing refugees out of sight, and out of mind, has now placed them beyond moral concern.

Australia has long exercised substantial authority in Nauru. For decades, it was the scene of an offshore detention centre for refugees who had attempted to seek asylum in Australia. Empty for ...

Australia was not approached by Nauru for more money to operate an immigration detention centre on the island. It's believed a funding spat with Taiwan contributed to Nauru's decision to sever ...

Although all people who remained in Nauru in June 2023 were transferred ... and Albania was ratified and in October 2024 these detention centres opened. Denmark has also revived talks with Rwanda ...