Nauru
Australia paid companies linked to suspected drug and weapons smuggling to run offshore detention, review finds
Home affairs minister Clare O’Neil says review shows offshore processing ‘used as a slush fund by suspected criminals’
Paul Karp Chief political correspondent
11, Feb, 2024 @10:02 PM
Child among asylum seekers returned to country of origin after being sent from Australia to Nauru
Home affairs department confirms eight of the 11 people flown to island nation in September have since returned home
Paul Karp Chief political correspondent
21, Jan, 2024 @2:00 PM
The Australian detention system was established to destroy us, but we refugees are still here | Behrouz Boochani
We were banished to Manus and Nauru, out of sight and out of mind. We are calling for a royal commission because the Australian public deserves the truth
Behrouz Boochani
01, Dec, 2023 @1:18 AM
Pacific Islands Forum: what is it and why does it matter?
Climate change and rising strategic competition among issues facing leaders at region’s most important political gathering
Tess Newton Cain in Rarotonga
06, Nov, 2023 @6:00 PM
Lawyers welcome government’s decision to settle negligence case of infant detained on Nauru
The child became sick in 2018 when two years old, but it took a court order to fly her to Australia for treatment
Mostafa Rachwani
05, Nov, 2023 @6:57 AM
Labor accused of ‘outrageous secrecy’ as border force confirms 11 asylum seekers sent to Nauru
Officials refuse to answer questions at Senate estimates about the first transfer to immigration detention on the island in nine years
Paul Karp and Eden Gillespie
23, Oct, 2023 @7:58 AM
PNG threatens to send refugees back to Australia unless it keeps funding humanitarian program
Exclusive: Papua New Guinea official accuses Australia of abandoning 70 men but government maintains it has no responsibility for them
Rebecca Kuku, Ben Doherty and Paul Karp
07, Oct, 2023 @5:50 AM
Asylum seekers sent to Nauru by Australian government only months after last detainees were removed
Exclusive: Guardian Australia understands the group – believed to be 11 people – was intercepted in September and taken to the Pacific nation
Paul Karp Chief political correspondent
04, Oct, 2023 @8:17 AM
Queensland company accused of bribery in Nauru says charge should be dropped as fair trial ‘impossible’
Lawyers for Getax Australia say ‘unjustified and inexplicable delays’ from the prosecution mean evidence has been lost and essential witnesses have died
Ben Doherty and Rafqa Touma
03, Sep, 2023 @3:00 PM
Dutton wasn’t told details of Bhojani bribery investigation as it was not ‘custom and practice’, AFP tells estimates
Federal police say they did not tell then home affairs minister name of man who was subject of Nauru investigation or that department had contracts with him
Ben Doherty
04, Aug, 2023 @7:43 AM
AFP concedes it was incorrect to say Peter Dutton received briefing on Bhojani foreign bribery matter
ACT chief police officer Neil Gaughan says ‘Mr Dutton was not briefed in relation to Radiance International or Mr Bhojani’
Ben Doherty
04, Aug, 2023 @3:40 AM
Labor launches inquiry into home affairs procurement after ‘serious issues’ with Nauru contracts
The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, says revelations about contracts with company linked to a foreign bribery case ‘merit detailed and thorough examination’
Paul Karp Chief political correspondent
31, Jul, 2023 @5:40 AM
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