Almost 200 refugees are set to leave Manus Island and Nauru for resettlement in the US as early as January, according to media reports.
The first round of detainees from the Manus Island and Nauru detention centres have left for the US, under a deal struck with the Australian government.
Around 22 refugees being held on Nauru have departed for the US.
A refugee advocacy body is calling for an independent inquiry into immigration detention after a second death in six weeks in a Sydney detention centre.
The government has confirmed that a hunger strike and self-harm have occurred at Manus Island detention centre as more footage emerges of a protest inside the facility.
SBS World News Radio: There are renewed calls for offshore detainees to be evacuated following new violence and the Australian-funded immigration detention centre on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.
A refugee advocacy group has sounded the alarm over a young boy's hunger strike on Nauru.
A group of 22 refugees are leaving Nauru to be resettled in the United States.
Scott Morrison says PNG agreed to relax a decade-old agreement to allow the deportation of a group of West Papuans from Australia, back to PNG.
A young refugee on Nauru is more than two weeks into a hunger strike.
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