An immigration detainee and convicted wife killer challenging his deportation to Nauru has told the Federal Court in Victoria ...

University of Sydney psychologists have examined 21 studies into the psychological impact of immigration detention on children across eight countries and found no form of detention is safe. With ...

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 ...

Within days of Nauru’s decision that MSF’s mental health services ... Twelve people have died in Australian offshore detention centres in the past five years as a result of murder, suicide and medical ...

It was later revealed that Australia paid Nauru $30 million to accept the ... A series of protests led by asylum seekers in several of the detention centres only served to further focus ...

Abdul is one of the latest detainees in Nauru detention centre to contract Dengue fever amid an outbreak that was last month confirmed by the Department of Immigration. Above: Abdul speaks to SBS ...

placing anyone who arrives by boat in offshore detention centres, began in 2001. Placing refugees offshore on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea or Nauru is intended to deter other asylum seekers ...

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.

Susan Metcalfe is a writer and researcher who made many independent visits to the Nauru detention centre during the time of the Howard government’s Pacific Solution policy. She is the author of the ...