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16th August 2016
Asylum seekers caught in Indonesian waters while sailing to Australia.
Pic: APsome asylum-seekers inflicted self-harm and made false claims in their bid to enter AustraliaThe Guardian published a massive cache of leaked documentsMost refugee & advocate claims on Nauru fabricated to achieve goal to get to Aust. So called "reports" based solely on these claims #factAugust 16, 2016Nauru Filescalled for a Senate inquiry and a royal commissionABC Radio Australia
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Erin Handley
Fri, 19 August 2016
Refugees from an Australian-run detention centre on Nauru cover their faces as they leave Phnom Penh International Airport last year. Pha Lina
Cambodia lacks the mental health facilities to cope with the deep trauma of refugees on Nauru, a whistleblower has said in the wake of horrors and abuse laid bare in the distressed by the Cambodia deal to the point of contemplating suicide
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Nightmare in Nauru: Australian govt blamed for alleged torture in refugee camp
18th October 2016
The front cover of the 'Island of Despair' report by Amnesty International on alleged abuses in Australia's refugee camp in Nauru.
Source: Amnesty International.
HARROWING tales of how abuse and mental deterioration are driving refugees in Nauru to attempt suicide have emerged yet again, this time in a comprehensive report released Monday by global rights group Amnesty International (AI).
In the
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18th October 2016
Australian Prime Minister Malcoln Turnbull speaking in an interview with ABC Radio National's breakfast show on Tuesday, Oct 18, 2016.
Pic via @abcnews.@TurnbullMalcolm tells @RNBreakfast he rejects "totally" Amnesty claims that conditions on #Nauru amount to torturehttps://t.co/olchCGehj8October 17, 2016A female refugee on Nauru who has been self-harming.
Source: Amnesty International.
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Published on Oct 17, 2016
There are 755 refugees on Nauru and 128 of them are children. Both the Nauruan and Australian governments say they want the refugees moved on from Nauru, but they have been unable to reach agreements on where else they could be sent. While that stalemate continues, many of these children are struggling to hang on to hope.
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Additional reporting by the Associated Press
11th November 2016
Men shave, brush their teeth and prepare for the day at a refugee camp on the Island of Nauru.
Pic: AP
THE United States and Australia are close to announcing a deal in which the United States will resettle hundreds of asylum seekers banished by Australia to Pacific island camps, a newspaper said.
The Australian
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!
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Nah never saw that coming Mr Harbourside Mansion
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Uncertain future for asylum seekers in Aussie camps as US officials postpone interviews
3rd February 2017
A group of asylum seekers hold up their identity after landing in Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.
(File pic) Pic: AP.angry phone callReuters that planned second-round interview dates with visiting U.S. officials had been postponed indefinitely.
Under the deal, the United States would take up to 1,250 asylum seekers. In return, Australia would take refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
More than a dozen asylum seekers on both Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, site of another Australian offshore detention camp, told Reuters
Pic: APdumbExtreme vetting
A pedestrian looks at a newspaper headline regarding U.S. President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in central Sydney, Australia, Feb 3, 2017.
Source: Reuters/David GrayReutersA female refugee on Nauru who has been self-harming.
Source: Amnesty International.Reuters
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Australia transfers seventh refugee from Nauru to Cambodia under $55m deal
Lindsay Murdoch
May 25 2017
Bangkok: A Syrian man has arrived in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh in a fillip to the Turnbull Government's troubled $55 million agreement to resettle refugees held in Nauru.
Australian authorities secretly transferred the man weeks ago, bringing to just seven the number of refugees on Nauru who have agreed to make the journey to one of Asia's poorest nations.
Doctor secretly recorded in Nauru
A secret audio recording captures a doctor in Nauru stating the system there is broken.
Only three remain in Cambodia.
Tan Sovichea, head of the Cambodian Interior Ministry's Refugee Department, was quoted by the Phnom Penh Post as saying the man was one of two refugees who agreed early this year to leave Australia's offshore detention centre in Nauru. He said the second unidentified man changed his mind.
The agreement has teetered on collapse since then Immigration Minister Scott Morrison signed it at a champagne-sipping ceremony in 2014.
It has been widely condemned, including by the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, human rights and refugee advocates and Cambodian opposition parties.
As well giving Cambodia, a country where corruption is endemic, $40 million to sign the agreement, Australia also allocated $15 million to the International Organisation for Migration to look after the resettled refugees.
Most of the refugee arrivals have said they were deeply unhappy living in Cambodia despite promises of money, training and other services.
Asylum seekers on their first day in the compound on Nauru in 2012..
Photo: Fairfax Media
One of them, Rohingya Muslim Mohammed Rashid, 26, told Fairfax Media last year he felt abandoned and feared he would die in the country.
Others complained of broken promises and discrimination in the majority-Buddhist nation.
Strongmen: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, left, and Cambodian PM Hun Sen, right, in Phnom Penh, earlier this month.
Photo: AP
An immigration department spokesman did not explicitly confirm the resettlement, according to AAP, citing privacy reasons.
brisbanetimes.com.au
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Cambodia: Syrian refugee secretly arrives from Australian detention on Nauru
Max Walden
26th May 2017
The man is only the seventh refugee to choose to resettle in Cambodia under the AU$55 million deal.
Source: MIA Studio / ShutterstockThe Phnom Penh Post reported on Thursday that Cambodian authorities confirmedAsian Correspondentdepartment told the Australian Associated Press The Phnom Penh Postfive refugeesrecently threatened
Source: Amnesty InternationalThe Guardian obtained working documents
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