The history of detention centres on Nauru is brief, but the island has been central to Australia’s asylum policies. It first housed a detention centre for asylum seekers between 2001 and 2008 ...

An immigration detainee and convicted wife killer has lost his legal fight against Labor’s bid to deport him to Nauru, under ...

And maybe Nauru's sudden decision to open the gates of its detention centre so its detainees could roam freely around (but not leave) Nauru had nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that the ...

Refugees will be among those helping to resettle the remaining 600 asylum seekers in the Nauru immigration detention centre, according to a statement issued by the Nauru government. About 600 ...

A young woman filmed the moment she 'accidentally broke into' an offshore Australian immigration detention centre. Travel blogger Chloe Jade was visiting the Micronesian island of Nauru ...

More than 2,000 leaked reports detail widespread abuse and trauma among children and women at Australia's offshore detention centre for asylum seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru. The "incident ...

Refugee and asylum seeker children being held at the Nauru Detention Centre have created a Facbook account to expose the 'shameful living conditions' and communicate their stories with the ...

Australia's controversial detention centre on Nauru is empty, after the last remaining refugee was evacuated into the night last week. It pauses over a decade of Australia's processing of asylum ...

Immigration and law enforcement insiders have told the ABC it was obvious trouble was brewing at the Nauru detention centre well before last week's destructive riot. The site's former manager Greg ...

The 28-year-old Rohingya refugee is the unlikely face of an expensive experiment carried out by the Australian government, which shipped him here from one of its notorious ‘offshore’ detention centres ...

The facility on Manus was established in 2001, together with a detention camp on Nauru. While the Nauru centre houses single women and families, including fathers, the Manus one holds only single men.

Asylum seekers on Nauru when it first opened in 2001 Australia's controversial detention centre on Nauru is empty, after the last remaining refugee was evacuated into the night last week.