SYDNEY — Pacific microstate Nauru is selling citizenship to fund its retreat from rising seas, President David Adeang told AFP, opening a contentious “golden passport” scheme as other ...

Citizenship of Nauru, an island nation spanning just 8 square miles in the southwest Pacific Ocean, can be yours for $105,000. The tiny, low-lying island has launched a “golden passport ...

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke signalled Nauru could take others from the cohort, saying the government there "had described these three visas as the first three". Three violent offenders who ...

Tony Burke on Sunday confirmed their visas have been cancelled and they would be flown to Nauru “as soon as possible”. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has confirmed three violent offenders ...

The Immigration Minister has pushed back on the ‘morality’ of the Nauru deal to take criminal detainees in a tense exchange with ABC host Sarah Ferguson. Mr Burke on Sunday announced the ...

Three former immigration detainees who were part of the NZYQ cohort will be resettled in Nauru. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced the deal with Nauru on Sunday, saying all three were ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor government announced last Sunday that it had struck a deal with the tiny remote Pacific country of Nauru, initially to take three immigration detainees.

Nauru President David Adeang, left, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shake hands at Parliament House in Canberra, Dec. 9, 2024. (Dominic GianniniAAP Image via AP) (Dominic Giannini ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Violent non-citizen criminals released into the Australian community in the landmark NZYQ High Court case will be transferred to ...

The Albanese government’s deal to send at least three foreign ­offenders to Nauru could help bolster the cases of other convicted criminals fighting to stay in the country, lawyers have flagged.

Immigration Minister Tony Burke says it’s ‘patronising’ to question Australia’s deal with Nauru to take three criminal detainees in a tense exchange with 7.30 host Sarah Ferguson.