It marks the end of one of the most controversial chapters in Australia's border policy history but critics say those now on the Papua New Guinea mainland remain at risk. Sign up now for the ...

Refugee from Sudan Abdul Aziz Adam has been on Manus Island for more than four years The current situation at the detention centre is just like hell. We are living in a situation where we don't ...

He is the sixth man to die on Manus Island since the detention centre was opened in 2012, according to Monash University’s Australian Border Deaths database. Eaten Fish (Ali Durrani), a 25-year-old ...

Police in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have moved about 40 refugees and asylum seekers from a former Australian-run detention centre on Manus Island. But more than 300 others remain. They have been ...

When Australia began forcibly moving people out of Manus Island detention centre to East Lorengau and Port Moresby in August, peaceful protests were launched in the detention centre. When Australia ...

Mr Ishak Ahmed, a Sudanese refugee, suffered a critical head injury from a fall on Manus Island on December ... opined that staff in the offshore detention centre would have had basic equipment ...

"The imposition of the detention centre on Manus Island has created local tensions from the very start," he said. "Lack of transparency about resettlement has added to the tensions." The breakout ...

Faysal Ishak Ahmed, a 27-year-old asylum-seeker who fled war in Sudan, was detained by the Australian government in the now-shuttered offshore detention centre on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea ...

After introducing a hardline immigration policy over a decade ago, Australia started sending asylum seekers intercepted at sea to detention camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island for ...

Australia’s offshore detention policies have helped to produce ... A Senate report details the high need for refugees on Manus Island and Nauru to be able to seek medical care in Australia.

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