Ben Doherty
Ben Doherty is a reporter for Guardian Australia. He is a former foreign correspondent for the Guardian, covering south-east Asia, and for the Sydney Morning Herald, reporting across south Asia. He is twice a Walkley award winner for his foreign reporting
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Offshore detention whistleblower loses job after condemning 'atrocity' of campsAfter psychologist Paul Stevenson tells the Guardian conditions on Nauru and Manus Island are ‘demoralising’ and ‘desperate’, his contract is cancelled
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When I play, it’s not like they say ‘oh, she’s a refugee’Sudanese teenage girls making their mark on Australian rules football are changing the way people think about refugees and migrants
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Nauru and Manus incident reports reveal stream of despair and privationBeneath the bloodless, bureaucratic language on the official reports of self-harm, sexual assault and suicide threats from asylum seekers held in Australian-run detention, the emotional and physical toll comes through.
Warning: some material may be upsetting for some readers
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Manus refugee allegedly assaulted by guards while having breakdown needs help, friends sayThirty-year-old Iranian refugee was forcibly removed from the detention centre after being found naked, yelling and distressed
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Manus refugee having breakdown was beaten and jailed, say detaineesRefugees lodge complaint that Iranian man having a mental health episode was taken to Lorengau prison instead of being cared for, and allegedly assaulted
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Papua New Guinea shootings: university wins injunction banning further protestsInjunction comes after after police open fire on students demonstrating against prime minister Peter O’Neill
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Four students reported dead after police fire on protest in Papua New GuineaDespite reports of deaths after clashes at a university in Port Moresby, embattled prime minister Peter O’Neill says students were only injured
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PNG police shooting: four reported dead after officers fire on student rally – latestReports of angry mobs emerging throughout Port Moresby after police shoot dead at least four students during march in anti-corruption protest
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Asylum seekers: Manus Island police presence stepped up as second challenge heads to courtDetainees say changes to regime are only cosmetic and they cannot move freely in the compound or leave without permission
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'GPs are at breaking point': new AMA president vows to fight Medicare freezeMichael Gannon, who had previously said the AMA was becoming too left wing, says the six-year freeze is ‘unfair’ and ‘wrong’
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Nauru decriminalises homosexuality and suicideNew laws replace those based on 1899 Queensland code and follow a spate of suicide attempts by refugees on the island
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Vietnamese asylum seekers forcibly returned by Australia face jailFour people go on trial after four others were jailed last month, despite assurances from both countries they would face no sanction
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Australian election campaign: day 11 – as it happenedMalcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten spend day 11 of the campaign in New South Wales after a particularly ugly day 10. Follow all the latest updates here
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