Nauru
Government sends 140 Serco staff to Christmas Island despite no refugees being there
Just one person has been brought to Australia under the controversial medevac laws, and they were taken to the mainland.
- by Michael Koziol
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Nauru
Nauru refugees struggling with life in the US 'Valley of Opportunity'
Many refugees from Manus Island and Nauru arrive in the US full of optimism. But they soon find life in America is much more challenging than they had imagined.
- by Matthew Knott
Scott Morrison
Morrison government faces first test under new refugee medical transfer laws
Lawyers are in the final stages of preparing applications for transfers that will test Scott Morrison's resolve on medical transfers.
- by Michael Koziol
Scott Morrison
A decade in detention: refugees face indefinite time on Christmas Island
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said those who were transferred to the remote island would "remain there by their own choice".
- by Michael Koziol
Nauru
Government reveals number of 'adverse character' refugees and asylum seekers
The Morrison government says it has identified 57 refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru who are of “adverse character” and would be sent to Christmas Island if they are granted a medical transfer to Australia under the laws that passed Parliament last month.
- by Michael Koziol
Asylum seekers
Nauru refugee inquest wraps up in Brisbane
After a year-and-a-half in detention on Nauru, being granted refugee status gave Omid Masoumali a brighter future. Eighteen months later he was dead.
- by Warren Barnsley
Nauru
Peter Dutton claims Australians will be 'kicked off' hospital waiting lists in favour of refugees
The comment drew an angry response from Kerryn Phelps, who stressed "the system has capacity to look after those people".
- by Michael Koziol
Courts
Nauru refugee's burns were 'very survivable', doctor says
Omid Masoumali would almost certainly have survived had he been treated in Australia, an inquest has been told.
- by Warren Barnsley
Nauru
Footage of refugee on fire played to Brisbane court
Phone footage of a petrol-doused Omid Masoumali pacing around a resettlement area of the Pacific island, yelling intensely then going up in a large ball of flames, has been played in Brisbane Coroners Court.
- by Warren Barnsley
Nauru
'Anxious feeling' among refugees before self-immolation on Nauru
Staff on Nauru who witnessed the self-immolation of an Iranian refugee have described an “anxious feeling” among asylum seekers associated with the visit of the UNHCR.
- by Cameron Atfield
Nauru
Burnt refugee wanted to live, widow tells court
The widow of Iranian refugee Omid Masoumali has described the helplessness the couple felt on Nauru prior to his self-immolation in 2016, but has told a Brisbane court her would-be husband did not want to die.
- by Cameron Atfield