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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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After psychologist Paul Stevenson tells the Guardian conditions on Nauru and Manus Island are ‘demoralising’ and ‘desperate’, his contract is cancelled
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Sudanese teenage girls making their mark on Australian rules football are changing the way people think about refugees and migrants
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Beneath 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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Thirty-year-old Iranian refugee was forcibly removed from the detention centre after being found naked, yelling and distressed
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Refugees 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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Injunction comes after after police open fire on students demonstrating against prime minister Peter O’Neill
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Despite 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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Reports 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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Detainees say changes to regime are only cosmetic and they cannot move freely in the compound or leave without permission
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Michael 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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New laws replace those based on 1899 Queensland code and follow a spate of suicide attempts by refugees on the island
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Four 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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