
Claims by asylum seekers that Australian Navy staff abused them as they were towed back to Indonesia aren't surprising, a refugee advocate says.
Last minute efforts are underway on Nauru to get all families and children out of the mouldy tents of the camp's family compound before the Pacific Island Forum gets underway on 1 September.
Developments surrounding alleged leaked Manus Island reports and the condition of an Iranian asylum seeker on life support are keeping debate over Australia's overseas immigration detention in the spotlight.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has denied reports a refugee boy with a broken arm will be flown from Nauru to India for surgery.
A refugee advocacy group has dismissed the government's decision to close two immigration detention centres as an "empty gesture" given others have been extended in the lead up.
EXCLUSIVE: A group of about 22 refugees flies from Nauru to Los Angeles under the controversial Australian-US refugee deal, which has so far resettled about 100 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru.
A group of 22 refugees are leaving Nauru to be resettled in the United States.
A 26-year-old Bangladeshi man has died from suspected heart failure in Nauru.
Six Manus Island refugees have left for the US.
A young refugee on Nauru is more than two weeks into a hunger strike.
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