
Asylum-seeker advocacy groups have criticised calls from Foreign Minister Bob Carr for a tougher refugee determination process.
In an interview from the tiny Pacific island of Nauru, Pakistani refugees told SBS Radio Urdu program that they don't have enough facilities such as clean water, food, or work to sustain themselves and that they can't even afford phone calls to their families back home.
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Five Iraqi asylum seekers have gone on hunger strike at Christmas Island, days after the federal government changed its visa system, a refugee advocate says.
A refugee advocacy group has sounded the alarm over a young boy's hunger strike on Nauru.
The government says aggressive protests are preventing Manus Island staff from providing drinking water, while advocates claim the staff confiscated it.
A refugee advocacy group says there have been two more suicide attempts on Manus Island.
Almost 200 refugees are set to leave Manus Island and Nauru for resettlement in the US as early as January, according to media reports.
More children have been transferred from Nauru to Australia.
A Sri Lankan Tamil man, who has become the sixth fatality among asylum seekeers on Manus Island in four years, had been facing rape charges.
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