Inside the battle for top job that will decide the future of deep-sea mining
Marking a pivotal moment for the fate of the barely known ecosystems on the ocean floor, 168 nations will decide this week who will head the International Seabed Authority
June 2024
‘What is our future?’: the Nauru detention centre was empty. Now 100 asylum seekers are held there
Number of asylum seekers on Nauru jumps as Australia transfers 37 people who arrived by boat
March 2024
A common condition
If a diabetes policy of diet and exercise keeps failing, is it time for a new approach?
Amy McLennan
On the Pacific island of Nauru the disease has been addressed in the same way for 50 years, but evidence of other factors – from poor air to stress – challenge our assumptions
February 2024
People seeking asylum in Australia shouldn’t have to trade danger for degradation
Frances Rush
Australia paid companies linked to suspected drug and weapons smuggling to run offshore detention, review finds
January 2024
Child among asylum seekers returned to country of origin after being sent from Australia to Nauru
Home affairs department confirms eight of the 11 people flown to island nation in September have since returned home
Nauru to sever diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favour of China
Nauru become first ally to switch allegiances to Beijing after weekend’s presidential elections in Taiwan
Australia’s ‘inhumane’ offshore detention regime denounced by global human rights organisation
Report by Australian chapter of advocacy group says policy is ‘embarrassing’ and at odds with country’s commitment to Refugee Convention
November 2023
The Australian detention system was established to destroy us, but we refugees are still here
Behrouz Boochani
We were banished to Manus and Nauru, out of sight and out of mind. We are calling for a royal commission because the Australian public deserves the truth
Pacific project
Pacific Islands Forum: what is it and why does it matter?
Climate change and rising strategic competition among issues facing leaders at region’s most important political gathering
Lawyers welcome government’s decision to settle negligence case of refugee infant detained on Nauru
The child became sick in 2018 when two years old, but it took a court order to fly her to Australia for treatment
October 2023
Labor accused of ‘outrageous secrecy’ as border force confirms 11 asylum seekers sent to Nauru
Officials refuse to answer questions at Senate estimates about the first transfer to immigration detention on the island in nine years
PNG threatens to send refugees back to Australia unless it keeps funding humanitarian program
Exclusive: Papua New Guinea official accuses Australia of abandoning 70 men but government maintains it has no responsibility for them
Asylum seekers sent to Nauru by Australian government only months after last detainees were removed
Exclusive: Guardian Australia understands the group – believed to be 11 people – was intercepted in September and taken to the Pacific nation
September 2023
Queensland company accused of bribery in Nauru says charge should be dropped as fair trial ‘impossible’
Lawyers for Getax Australia say ‘unjustified and inexplicable delays’ from the prosecution mean evidence has been lost and essential witnesses have died
August 2023
Dutton wasn’t told details of Bhojani bribery investigation as it was not ‘custom and practice’, AFP tells estimates
AFP concedes it was incorrect to say Peter Dutton received briefing on Bhojani foreign bribery matter
July 2023
Labor launches inquiry into home affairs procurement after ‘serious issues’ with Nauru contracts
Home affairs may have misled Senate over Nauru contracts linked to man convicted over bribery
