
Labor believes the federal government should tell Australians what is going on at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea amid conflicting claims about a protest there.
The group claims a fellow detainee was dragged through the facility for ignoring new rules.
Refugee advocacy groups say a terminally ill man is not being allowed to enter Australia to receive palliative care.
A refugee mother and her premature baby have been airlifted from Nauru to Australia.
The Home Affairs Department has confirmed the death of a man at Villawood Detention Centre, with activists blaming the death on conditions at the facility.
The foreign nationals who fled a sinking boat off the coast of Queensland's crocodile country face a swift deportation after being flown to Christmas Island.
A young refugee on Nauru is on his way to Australia after being on a hunger strike for more than two weeks.
Three Palestinian asylum seekers have been hospitalised in Darwin after they staged a hunger strike to draw attention on the year they have spent in detention waiting for their refugee claims to be processed, activists say.
The death of a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee in Papua New Guinea is the sixth fatality on Manus Island in four years.
An Iranian asylum seeker who has starved himself for 36 days has been shifted from the detention camp at Nauru to the island's hospital.
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