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| UpdatedTensions between refugees and locals on the pacific island of Nauru are heightened after a series of violent attacks that have left multiple refugees injured or arrested.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, immigration, refugees, nauru, pacific
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Human rights lawyer Julian Burnside accuses the Immigration Department of refusing to deliver letters of goodwill to asylum seekers.
Topics: immigration, australia, nauru, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe ABC obtains leaked testimonies from the Moss inquiry that cast doubt on the evidence used to remove nine Save the Children staff from their jobs working with asylum seekers on Nauru.
Topics: community-and-society, immigration, refugees, government-and-politics, federal-government, nauru, australia
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| UpdatedAid organisation Save the Children says it is frustrated and angry over a "disturbing" intelligence report that sparked the Moss review into allegations of sexual misconduct at the Nauru detention centre.
Topics: immigration, charities-and-community-organisations, federal---state-issues, federal-parliament, activism-and-lobbying, nauru, australia
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Nauru police say they have released all 183 refugees who were arrested in connection to mass protests this week, with the majority charged with "unlawful assembly".
Topics: immigration, refugees, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, nauru, pacific
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The government of Nauru says 183 people have been arrested after protests and described the demonstrators as troublemakers trying to manipulate the media and public.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, refugees, immigration, nauru, pacific
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Nauru police arrest more than 100 refugees in connection to recent protests on the Pacific island, advocates say.
Topics: refugees, immigration, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, nauru, pacific, australia
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Hundreds of refugees on Nauru say they will continue to protest against what they say are slave-like living conditions on the remote Pacific island.
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Refugees on Nauru have begun a campaign of non-cooperation and say they will continue to demonstrate against "slave-like conditions" on the remote island.
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Hundreds of refugees on Nauru say they will continue to protest against what they say are slave-like living conditions on the remote Pacific island.
Topics: refugees, immigration, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, nauru, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedThe Immigration secretary vows to take a personal interest in the case of a 16-year-old girl who jumped from the first floor of a detention centre facility last week after raising sexual assault allegations.
Topics: immigration, refugees, suicide, government-and-politics, darwin-0800, nauru
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| UpdatedAustralia's resettlement deal with Cambodia takes an important step forward with the International Organisation for Migration signing up to facilitate the transfer of refugees from Nauru.
Topics: refugees, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, immigration, community-and-society, cambodia, australia, nauru
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Australia's Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson declines to defend the Commission's embattled president Gillian Triggs.
Topics: immigration, government-and-politics, community-and-society, rights, human, law-crime-and-justice, australia, nauru, papua-new-guinea, cambodia
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High levels of self-harm and abuse involving children living in immigration detention are adding to what a paediatrics professor has described as a "toxic environment".
Topics: immigration, government-and-politics, child-abuse, children, federal-government, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, rights, human, australia, cambodia, papua-new-guinea, nauru
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| UpdatedThe PM rules out a royal commission into the policy of holding children in immigration detention, saying the Human Rights Commission's damning 'Forgotten Children' report is "blatantly partisan".
Topics: immigration, government-and-politics, federal-government, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, rights, human, australia, cambodia, papua-new-guinea, nauru
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| UpdatedA High Court ruling that a group of 157 Sri Lankan asylum seekers were legally detained at sea by Australian authorities last year is welcomed by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.
Topics: refugees, courts-and-trials, act, canberra-2600, nauru, sri-lanka, british-indian-ocean-territory
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| UpdatedChristian church leaders arrested after a sit-in protest against children in detention at Julie Bishop's electorate office are given spent convictions.
Topics: courts-and-trials, religion-and-beliefs, refugees, perth-6000, nauru
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| UpdatedThe High Court hands down its decision today on a legal challenge to the Australian Government's detention of 157 asylum seekers on board a Customs vessel for almost a month.
Topics: refugees, courts-and-trials, human, australia, nauru, india, sri-lanka, asia
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| UpdatedA Nauru opposition MP describes the island as a dictatorship, after the country's Supreme Court upheld the suspension of five MPs for speaking to foreign media.
Topics: world-politics, international-law, nauru, pacific
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| UpdatedThirty-one babies born to asylum seekers will be allowed to stay in Australia with their immediate families while their refugee claims are assessed.
Topics: immigration, refugees, community-and-society, federal-government, government-and-politics, scott-morrison, australia, nauru
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| UpdatedThe Immigration Department believes medical staff contracted to take care of asylum seekers were advocating too strongly for detainees and it preferred doctors who complied with the Government's wishes, a leaked report reveals.
Topics: immigration, refugees, community-and-society, federal-government, government-and-politics, scott-morrison, australia, nauru
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| UpdatedAn anguished Ricky Muir complains of "being forced into a corner to decide between a bad decision and a worse decision" as the Senate passes laws to re-introduce temporary protection visas.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia, asia, nauru
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| UpdatedTemporary protection visas for refugees are set to be resurrected with the support of the Palmer United Party and other independent Senate crossbenchers.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia, asia, nauru, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedA multi-million-dollar contract awarded to an infrastructure company to help set up the detention centre on Nauru faces renewed scrutiny, after it was revealed a key document does not exist.
Topics: government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, immigration, nauru
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| UpdatedTwo pregnant women brought from Nauru to Darwin to give birth are refusing to get off a bus with their families near the Wickham Point Detention Centre, asylum seeker advocates say.
Topics: refugees, immigration, darwin-0800, nauru