Christmas Island's detention centre is a "living hell" and people in Australia's immigration detention system are petrified of being sent there, as the government moves to reopen the previously-shuttered facility.
Home Affairs officials have defended awarding a contentious $423 million Manus Island security contract to a little-known company called Paladin.
Christian Porter says there was a full and independent process in place for a contentious $423 million contract awarded to a security contractor on Manus Island.
As the government deals with the political fallout of a historic loss on asylum seeker legislation in parliament, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has released a video message aimed directly at people smugglers themselves.
Australia's security agencies are in a "race against time" to do background checks on asylum seekers after medical evacuation laws cleared parliament.
If you think about it, this is all Peter Dutton's fault.
From hunger strikes and being shot in the leg, to being celebrated by world-leading human rights groups, Abdul Aziz Muhamat's life has been in turmoil for years.
Two tragedies four years apart form the background to today’s historic Parliamentary vote making it easier to medically evacuate refugees from Nauru and Manus Island.
Legislation to expedite medical evacuations of refugees and asylum seekers to Australia has passed the Senate, after yesterday passing the House of Representatives.
The Coalition government has suffered a historic loss on its own legislation, throwing Scott Morrison's administration into chaos on the first day of the new sitting year.
As politicians continue to debate over the future of medical transfers, a few dozen refugees are sitting in a PNG hospital, awaiting medical treatment.
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An Iranian asylum seeker in detention on Manus Island has won the Victorian Prize for Literature.
Every year we think things can't get any odder in that strange house on the hill in Canberra, but every year our federal representatives seem to outdo themselves.
New MP Kerryn Phelps is leading a push from the growing parliamentary crossbench to evacuate refugee children and sick adults from Manus Island and Nauru.
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Refugees in Australia's offshore camps usually have enough of a fight on their hands, but Pakistani man Ezatullah Kakar is in a battle of a different kind.
Last week former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott praised Nauru in public by candidly calling it "a very pleasant island”.
Refugees have reported being shunted out of hospital and out of sight on Manus Island as Papua New Guinea prepares to host the APEC summit.
After five years, mounting public outrage, countless pleas for action from doctors, lawyers and politicians -- the kids are finally getting off Nauru.
A campaign to bring refugee children on Nauru to Australia has scored some new high-profile supporters.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government is considering accepting New Zealand's long-standing offer to resettle refugees languishing on the islands.
Nauru says her media accreditation has been revoked.
How about those kids on Nauru?
Massive public outcry isn't enough for a young family to avoid deportation, but just one phone call from an au pair is.
'It represents how free a human being can be if they resist.'
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"Such deliberate and sustained cruelty to innocent human beings is fundamentally wrong."
'What can we really want from Australia except freedom? Stop torturing us.'
There are definite echoes of how we treated refugees trying to come to our country.
We have little to be proud of in our treatment of refugees. We need to honestly shine a light on our country's shame.
Government policy changes "like sitting on a timebomb", one asylum seeker said.
New bill to "dismantle Australia's current offshore immigration detention".
Not all of the men are coping well with their new lives.
One refugee dead, one dying, a devastating fire and more political bickering than action.
The Rohingya man is at least the seventh refugee death on Manus Island.
'There is no electricity and no kitchen', one asylum seeker reported
The fact that people have lost their lives on Manus Island, Nauru and Christmas Island is a despicable crime that needs to be investigated and the perpetrators brought to justice.
