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Radio New Zealand
April 26, 2018
Nauru is now representing the interests of Georgian break-away republic South Ossetia at the United Nations as well as in other international organisations, the South Ossetian leader says. In comments reported by South Ossetia's government information service, President Anatoly Bibilov said because anÃâà...
Radio New Zealand
April 26, 2018
Yesterday, Father Bower posted a new sign outside his church modifying the Anzac phrase to say 'Lest We Forget, Manus and Nauru'. A similar phrase was used last year by muslim blogger, media commentator, engineer, and former Queensland Young Australian of the year Yassmin Abdel-Magied.
SBS
April 25, 2018
Generous Australians are sending around 100 musical instruments to refugees on Manus Island and Nauru to help combat the stress of life in detention. Music for Refugees founder Philip Feinstein put the call out for instruments a couple of months ago and has been overwhelmed by the response. He saidÃâà...
The Guardian
April 25, 2018
Play Video. 1:32. Ali is a 12-year-old Iranian asylum seeker detained on Nauru. His mother has been repeatedly recommended for urgent medical transfer to Australia but, 14 months on, there is no immediate plan to move her. Wed 25 Apr 2018 14.00 EDT. Share on Facebook Ãâ÷ Share on Twitter Ãâ÷ Share via EmailÃâà...
The Guardian
April 25, 2018
A 12-year-old asylum seeker held on Nauru has publicly pleaded for his severely depressed mother to be moved to Australia, for the urgent medical treatment doctors have been recommending for more than a year. “I feel helpless because there is no one to help us. There is no one to see how we areÃâà...
The Guardian
April 19, 2018
She cries, covering her face with her hands, as she recalls fleeing Afghanistan with her children to follow her husband to Australia, ending up in Nauru and then Sydney – separated from a son and a daughter. “One night some men came to my home – I assumed they were Taliban – and they hit me in myÃâà...
Lawyers Weekly
April 17, 2018
“This is a horrific case – this child has now attempted suicide three times and needs medical attention immediately, which the federal government knows cannot be provided on Nauru,” she said last week. The Department of Immigration had medical reports outlining these facts, she said, and urgentÃâà...
Radio New Zealand
April 16, 2018
The lawyers, on behalf of immigration Minister Peter Dutton, then gave an undertaking to the Federal court that a mentally-ill girl and her family would be brought from Nauru to Australia for medical assistance. The Refugee Action Coalition said in their own way, each of the cases, highlights why asylumÃâà...
ABC Online
April 16, 2018
UNHCR in Canberra says it is yet to receive any queries from white South African farmers seeking protection in Australia; Spokesperson said those transferred to offshore processing centres in PNG and Nauru should be first priority; Government has told refugees in those centres they will never be resettledÃâà...
Radio New Zealand
April 16, 2018
The lawyers, on behalf of immigration Minister Peter Dutton, then gave an undertaking to the Federal court that a mentally-ill girl and her family would be brought from Nauru to Australia for medical assistance. The Refugee Action Coalition said in their own way, each of the cases, highlights why asylumÃâà...
9news.com.au
April 15, 2018
Peter Dutton's immigration department has vowed to fly a mentally unwell refugee girl from Nauru to Australia after lawyers took action on the suffering child's behalf. The girl, who has attempted to take her own life three times, will be flown to the mainland this afternoon with her father and brother, theÃâà...
9news.com.au
April 15, 2018
Peter Dutton's immigration department has vowed to fly a mentally unwell refugee girl from Nauru to Australia after lawyers took action on the suffering child's behalf. The girl, who has attempted suicide three times, will be flown to the mainland on Sunday afternoon with her father and brother, theÃâà...
The Guardian
April 14, 2018
A young refugee girl held by Australia on Nauru, who is suffering acute mental health problems and has attempted suicide three times, will be moved to Australia for medical care as soon as Sunday, after the government agreed at the last minute to her transfer. Lawyers from Maurice Blackburn lodged anÃâà...
The Guardian
April 3, 2018
John Jeremiah, Josh Kepae and Job Cecil are members of the Nauru 19, a group charged over a 2015 protest involving hundreds of people outside the Nauruan parliament. The demonstrations, which caused minor damage to the parliament and spilled on to the country's airfield, were over MPs beingÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 3, 2018
Nauru has abolished a decades-old link to Australia's legal system, removing the island nation's highest court of appeal, in a move critics have described as "shocking" and "concerning" for human rights. The government of Nauru - a Pacific island on which hundreds of asylum seekers are detained in anÃâà...
BBC News
April 2, 2018
Nauru has severed ties with Australia's highest court, sparking concerns that hundreds of asylum seekers could be left without the right to appeal. The move to cut ties with Australia's High Court means the Pacific island now has no appeal system of its own. Nauru says it will establish its own local court ofÃâà...
Flightglobal
March 16, 2018
Nauru Airlines has enhanced pilot training in a range of navigation and approach areas after a serious incident involving a Boeing 737-300 that flew below the minimum descent altitude on a night approach to Kosrae on 12 June 2015. Due to several delays, the aircraft (VH-NLK), operating the carrier'sÃâà...
Radio New Zealand
March 12, 2018
Meanwhile the Refugee Action Coalition said the situation for the refugees remaining on Nauru was deteriorating by the day. Its spokesman Ian Rintoul said in the past week, another three people had been transferred from Nauru to Australia because of debilitating mental health issues created by theirÃâà...
The Guardian
March 12, 2018
An Iranian refugee who has been waiting 18 months on Nauru for critical heart surgery has been flown to Taiwan for the life-saving operation after the Australian Border Force acquiesced and allowed her teenage son to travel with her. Fatemeh, 55, has been living in Nauru's regional processing centre atÃâà...
Radio New Zealand
March 5, 2018
He said that has never been acknowledged or addressed by the Nauru Government. "So the situation today remains much as it was at that time and that is where there are serious questions about the government's commitment to the rule of law and independence of the judiciary," said Justice Eames.
Radio New Zealand
March 4, 2018
This is the fifth group to have departed Nauru since the US resettlement began in September 2016. Mr Rintoul said although Australian Border Force officials have denied that any nationalities are banned from US resettlement, it was remarkable that no Iranian, Somalis, or Sudanese have been acceptedÃâà...
The Guardian
March 3, 2018
Four more families of refugees and a cohort of single men have left immigration camps on Nauru to start new lives in the United States. The group of 29, including eight children, who flew off the island nation on Sunday, is the fifth cohort to leave Nauru under Australia's refugee resettlement deal with the US.
The Conversation AU
February 27, 2018
A series of recent reports by The Guardian have revealed refugees, asylum seekers and staff at the Nauru processing centre have been exposed to a mould problem of “epic proportions”. The fungal growth in housing and working areas has reportedly led to some staff describing ongoing health effectsÃâà...
The Guardian
February 26, 2018
The Australian government bought a $50,000 industrial steam cleaner – “a giant water blaster” – to combat the mould growing throughout the Nauru immigration processing centre, but never used it because it was too dangerous, a former worker has said. The machine, paid for by Australia and shipped toÃâà...
Radio New Zealand
February 25, 2018
Australia approved her transfer but will not let her 16-year-old son accompany her. After almost five years living in a mouldy tent in one of Nauru detention camps, Fatemah was asked if she had a message for Ms Ardern. "Me and the other refugees who are here stretch their hands towards you," she said.
The Guardian
February 23, 2018
And while the department of home affairs has said there have been no cases of anyone developing health issues following exposure to mould at the Nauru RPC, the government's own workplace safety agency, Comcare, has confirmed to the Guardian it has “received a complaint in 2016 from a workerÃâà...
The Guardian
February 22, 2018
Four years after the Australian government was repeatedly warned the mould growing throughout Nauru's regional processing centres was making people sick, refugee families, including young children, are still being forced to live under rotting canvas in Nauru. At least 330 refugees and asylum seekers,Ãâà...
The Guardian
February 18, 2018
Doctors have diagnosed a refugee held on Nauru as being at “high and imminent risk of … heart attack or sudden death”, but the Australian Border Force has refused to move her to a hospital that can treat her, because she won't leave her young son alone on the island. On five separate occasions sinceÃâà...
The Guardian
February 17, 2018
Almost all are single Afghan, Pakistani or Rohingya men, along with one Sri Lankan family and one Bangladeshi refugee, said Ian Rintoul of the the Refugee Action Coalition. The makeup further confirms fears that Iranians, who make up the largest national group on Nauru, have so far been excluded fromÃâà...
Asia Pacific Report
December 31, 1999
BRIEFING: By Erin Harris. The decision to terminate a long-standing arrangement that saw the Australian High Court act as a partial appellate court for Nauru, as reported last week, has heightened concerns about Nauru's appropriateness as a venue for an Australian immigration detention centre.
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Three of the “Nauru 19” who had their appeal rights to the high court of Australia extinguished by the Nauru government, have had their bail continued by a Nauruan court. In a long-running case that has gone to the very operation of Nauru's justice system and democracy, the three protesters also won theÃâà...
