Under Australia's tough immigration policies, those attempting to reach the country by boat have been sent to detention centres - including ... complaint by a group of refugees, found that ...

The Australian Home Affairs Department said it has been the government's consistent position that Australia does not exercise ...

US President Donald Trump is a vocal fan of Australia’s strict and controversial immigration laws that have for years ...

The Nauru Regional Processing Centre is an offshore Australian immigration detention facility opened ... on the island considered as genuine refugees. The highest population at the centre ...

The company that’s long run Australia’s immigration detention network has lost its contract, but not before building one of ...

Human Rights Watch has released its annual review of human rights practices around the world... and the organisation's report ...

At least 12 refugees and asylum seekers have died in Australian immigration detention centres on Manus and Nauru, either by murder by guards or suicide or medical neglect, according to human ...

Detention centres in Australia are torture centres ... Iraq in 2006 and then became a refugee advocate for the Refugee Council of Australia in 2017 , which has included representing the Australian ...

Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, a UN watchdog ruled Thursday, in ...

All but one got refugee status in September 2014, but their detention in Nauru continued. The offshore processing centre in Nauru has long been a controversial issue in Australia. Picture ...