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Refugee advocates say the Government's decision to send 10 unaccompanied children to a detention centre on Nauru has put the children at serious risk of mental health issues.
Topics: immigration, refugees, children, federal-government, mental-health, nauru, australia
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| UpdatedNew Zealand has announced it will not withdraw its funding of Nauru's judicial system, despite the island government sacking its only magistrate and cancelling the visa of the chief justice.
Topics: world-politics, international-law, law-crime-and-justice, international-aid-and-trade, nauru, new-zealand, pacific
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| UpdatedNauru has officially increased the cost of visas for media professionals from $200 to $8,000.
Topics: journalism, immigration, government-and-politics, nauru, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedFour Australian human rights lawyers have launched a constitutional challenge to the detention of 10 asylum seekers being held at the immigration detention centre on Nauru.
Topics: immigration, refugees, nauru, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedTopics: human, law-crime-and-justice, refugees, nauru, australia, pacific
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Australia's Opposition is calling on the Government to use a joint cabinet meeting with New Zealand to push Nauru on the rule of law.
Topics: international-law, world-politics, nauru, australia, new-zealand, pacific
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| UpdatedThe introduction of emergency rule appears on the cards in Nauru, following the expulsion of another Australian from the country, former government adviser Rod Henshaw. Pacific correspondent Sean Dorney spoke with Mr Henshaw.
Topics: government-and-politics, nauru, pacific
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| UpdatedNauru's government is in the process of drafting a law to impose emergency rule in the Pacific island nation with the assistance of lawyers from Fiji.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, nauru, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedNauru's former director of media says the Australian Government should be worried about the state of law in the Pacific nation.
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, nauru, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedNauru's Minister for Justice David Adeang has ordered the deportation of former government media adviser Rod Henshaw.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, nauru, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedNauru's former solicitor general says he resigned in protest over the government's treatment of its resident magistrate, Australian, Peter Law and Australian based chief justice, Geoffrey Eames.
Topics: judges-and-legal-profession, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, nauru, australia, pacific
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| UpdatedThere are growing concerns about Nauru's judicial system, after the government deported its resident Australian magistrate and barred its chief justice from returning to the small pacific island. It's now expected that more dismissals will follow, with the justice minister David Adeang in the process of trying to deport other prominent Australians.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, nauru
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| UpdatedNauru's president has rejected claims that the rule of law in his country has been compromised by recent decisions to replace its magistrate and chief justice.
Topics: world-politics, laws, law-crime-and-justice, nauru, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedNauru's president has rejected reports that his country has abused the rule of law and that recent decisions to replace its magistrate and chief justice were politically motivated.
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, nauru
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| UpdatedProminent human rights lawyer Julian Burnside says Australia is remaining silent about Nauru's legal turmoil because it protects asylum seeker detention centres on the island.
Topics: refugees, judges-and-legal-profession, law-crime-and-justice, nauru, australia, pacific
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| UpdatedThe controversial new deportation law at the centre of Nauru's judicial crisis could also be applied to asylum seekers sent there by Australia, the ABC understands.
Topics: world-politics, judges-and-legal-profession, law-crime-and-justice, nauru, australia, melbourne-3000, pacific
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| UpdatedNauru's former Resident Magistrate says he'll sue the Nauruan government.
The country's Department of Justice has released a statement outlining the reasons Peter Law was sacked and deported.
It says the government had lost confidence in Mr Law to hear judicial matters in a fair and equal way.
Topics: laws, foreign-affairs, courts-and-trials, world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, nauru, australia, pacific
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| UpdatedNauru's Australian-based chief justice, Geoffrey Eames, says a decision to ban him from the country and to deport the nation's chief magistrate is politically motivated.
Nauru's president Baron Waqa fired chief magistrate Peter Law yesterday and ordered him to leave the country.
When Mr Eames issued injunctions to try to stop Mr Law's deportation, his own visa to return to the country this morning was cancelled.
Mr Eames says the Nauruan government did not agree with rulings made by Mr Law, which stopped the government from deporting three resident foreign nationals - two of them Australian.
Topics: world-politics, courts-and-trials, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, nauru, australia, pacific
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| UpdatedNauru's justice system has been thrown into chaos after its chief justice and only magistrate - both Australian citizens - were barred from the country.
The country's solicitor-general, Steven Bliim, has now tended his resignation and the ABC believes a Melbourne-based solicitor has this morning arrived in the Pacific nation to preside as magistrate.
On Sunday morning, Nauru's president Baron Waqa fired resident magistrate and supreme court registrar Peter Law.
"I was found by the police... [they] came to my place and arrested me because they demanded I be on the first plane out of Nauru," he told ABC's AM program.
Chief Justice Geoffrey Eames had intervened by issuing an injunction against Mr Waqa's deportation of Mr Law, but that was ignored.
Not only was Mr Law put on a plane back to Australia, the president then cancelled Justice Eames' visa, preventing him from returning to Nauru to deal with the matter.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, nauru, pacific, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedImmigration Minister Scott Morrison says the expulsion of Magistrate Peter Law from Nauru did not seem to be connected to Australian asylum-seeker policy.
Topics: foreign-affairs, australia, nauru
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| UpdatedChief Justice Geoffrey Eames says he has had no problems with the Nauruan government in three years, but has had no communication about why he was denied a visa to visit the country.
Topics: world-politics, nauru, australia
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| UpdatedPeter Law says his expulsion from Nauru suggests there is no separation of powers in Nauru, and therefore no rule of law.
Topics: world-politics, australia, nauru
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| UpdatedThe government of Nauru has sacked the nation's only magistrate, Peter Law who has been deported to Australia.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, immigration, nauru, australia, pacific
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| UpdatedAustralia is set to close a number of its onshore immigration detention centres.
Topics: immigration, australia, papua-new-guinea, nauru
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| UpdatedAustralians respond generously to Senator's call for toys for children detained on Nauru.
Topics: community-and-society, nauru, pacific