The Latest Breaking News from Nauru

Australia will continue funding its controversial offshore detention processing centre on the Pacific island of Nauru even as the facility’s remaining refugees leave, in an effort to dissuade people-smugglers from sending boats to the country, according to local media.

Despite the ostensible end to offshore processing on the Pacific island, the architecture and ‘inhuman’ policy remain

Saving children is a cornerstone of the stop the boats narrative — a patronising, nation-building story Australians are being told and sold.

The Morrison government paid a corrupt businessman millions of taxpayer dollars for offshore processing on Nauru, and Clare Nowland, the 95-year-old woman tasered by police, has died only hours after the officer allegedly involved was charged with three offences.

Morrison government paid man convicted of bribing two Nauruan officials; renewable energy projects pushed back; tributes flow for 1980s rock legend

Mozammil Gulamabbas Bhojani was convicted of bribing two Nauruan officials with more than $120,000

The witness statements were collected during more than 300 hours of interviews with refugees as part of a now discontinued pro bono class action

Activists, lawyers and refugees see the UK repeating the mistakes and abuses of Australia’s draconian asylum seeker law.

Australia’s immigration policies allow for indefinite locked detention, including for children and families. Detention is mandatory for people arriving without a valid visa – all those who arrived by boat between 2009 and 2013 were held in Immigration Detention Centres in Australia, or in Australian-contracted detention in Nauru or Papua…