The history of detention centres on Nauru is brief, but the island has been central to Australia’s asylum policies. It first housed a detention centre for asylum seekers between 2001 and 2008 ...

And maybe that sense isn't an illusion. Maybe, for example, Nauru just happened to choose to open a "regional processing centre" for asylum seekers. And maybe it just happened to put an Australian ...

Immigration and law enforcement insiders have told the ABC it was obvious trouble was brewing at the Nauru detention centre well before last week's destructive riot. The site's former manager Greg ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Nauru is facing an unemployment crisis with the closure of Australia's immigration detention centre, says the Pacific island nation ...

A new detention centre opened in Nauru in September 2012, but it too has been beset by criticism. Image caption, Until earlier this year asylum seekers were housed in overcrowded army tents When ...

Australia's controversial detention centre on Nauru is empty, after the last remaining refugee was evacuated into the night last week. It pauses over a decade of Australia's processing of asylum ...

Chairs and tables were thrown at staff during a disturbance at Nauru's immigration detention centre overnight, Australia's Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) has said.

Look, we understand that the temporary facility, part of which is transitioning to permanent facility, at the Nauru regional processing centre is in a country that is hot, that is humid, but the ...

A young woman filmed the moment she 'accidentally broke into' an offshore Australian immigration detention centre. Travel blogger Chloe Jade was visiting the Micronesian island of Nauru ...

While the Nauru centre houses single women and families, including fathers, the Manus one holds only single men. Both camps gradually fell into disuse and were eventually closed in 2008.

Charlotte Wilson, who was a case worker with Save the Children until February, made the explosive allegation in a submission to a Senate inquiry examining abuse at the detention centre.

Asylum seekers on Nauru when it first opened in 2001 Australia's controversial detention centre on Nauru is empty, after the last remaining refugee was evacuated into the night last week.