A confrontation is looming in Papua New Guinea (PNG) between local authorities and more than 700 men who are refusing to leave an Australian-run immigration processing center.

The Christmas Island Immigration Detention Center lies on a remote Australian territory 2,650 kilometers (1,650 miles) north-west of Perth and housed 958 asylum seekers at the end of August 2015 ...

As intended, Howard’s immigration plan drastically reduced the boats making it to Australian shores. In 2002 one asylum-seeker reached Australia, and in the next five years, 57 people each year did.

After Ms. Nadesalingam’s temporary visa expired in 2018, the family was sent to an immigration detention center Melbourne, then flown to Christmas Island in 2019, where they are the only ...

Nauru, an isolated island in the Pacific Ocean, hosts a large off-shore detention centre that has become a living nightmare for refugees and asylum seekers.

On Tuesday, Australia’s immigration minister, Alex Hawke, said the family would be released from detention on Christmas Island and allowed to reunite in Perth. Advertisement ...

The Christmas Island Detention Centre was built at a cost of $396 million with hundreds of millions of dollars per year spent on Australian immigration officials and Navy and Australian Border ...

The men have been held at the immigration detention centre alongside asylum-seekers who arrived by sea, but a 15-month halt in boat arrivals at the Indian Ocean outpost has emptied compounds and ...

A confrontation is looming in Papua New Guinea (PNG) between local authorities and more than 700 men who are refusing to leave an Australian-run immigration processing center.