The immigration department isn't aware that any of the asylum seekers facing transfer to Malaysia have launched a hunger strike, as claimed by a refugee activist.
A refugee advocacy group says there have been two more suicide attempts on Manus Island.
The federal government says immigration detention centres in Melbourne and Sydney can be closed as the number of boat arrivals has dropped under its policies.
A further 35 refugees have departed the immigration centre on Nauru for America under a resettlement deal Australia struck with the US.
More children have been transferred from Nauru to Australia.
Refugee activists say a boat carrying 153 asylum seekers is nearing Christmas Island.
A spokesman for the Refugee Action Group says an Afghan asylum seeker has avoided being forceably deported for now, after a court decision.
A young Sudanese refugee has died after a fall at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, Australia's Immigration Department says.
Security has been stepped up on Nauru to coincide with a major refugee protest planned for Friday.
Up to 100 asylum-seekers are lodging applications with the Federal Court to make new claims for protection, after the Department of Immigration accidentally revealed their identities online.
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