"Every person who has attempted to reach Australia by boat since I have been Minister is back in their home country, or in Nauru, having wasted thousands of dollars and having risked their lives ...

The rush of asylum-seeker vessels to Australia began in September 2023, when a boat carrying 11 people was intercepted in Australian waters and the passengers flown to Nauru. That was the first ...

Canberra introduced a tough policy of offshore processing a decade ago, where boat arrivals were transferred to camps in the Pacific Island nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea (PNG) for ...

SYDNEY - Australia said on Jan 29 it would enlist indigenous Aboriginal rangers to patrol its vast and remote northern ...

Under Australia's hardline policy introduced in 2012, the government sent thousands of refugees attempting to reach the country by boat to offshore processing centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea ...

Under Australia's immigration policies, those trying to reach the country by boat have been sent to detention centres — including on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru — for so-called ...

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Dozens of refugees who arrived in Australia by boat a decade ago and expected to resettle in the United States have been affected by the Trump Administration's ...

Australia does not allow asylum seekers who arrive by boat to settle in the country, instead flying them to the Pacific Island nation of Nauru for assessment of refugee claims, in a process ...