It first housed a detention centre for asylum seekers between 2001 and 2008, under the so-called Pacific Solution of Australia’s conservative Liberal Party, which aimed to stop refugees coming ...

More than 2,000 leaked reports detail widespread abuse and trauma among children and women at Australia's offshore detention centre for asylum seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru. The "incident ...

LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Last's week's riot by asylum seekers on Nauru has left the detention centre there in ruins, and Australian taxpayers facing a damage bill of at least $60 million.

As Nauru opens its detention centre, its helps the Australian government more than asylum seekers. Nauru's move to open its detention centre makes it "more dangerous" for asylum seekers .

A young woman filmed the moment she 'accidentally broke into' an offshore Australian immigration detention centre. Travel blogger Chloe Jade was visiting the Micronesian island of Nauru ...

LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Detention centre whistleblowers are defying the law to speak out about a culture of cover-ups and abuse on Nauru and challenge the evidence given by centre operators before ...

Australia's controversial detention centre on Nauru is empty, after the last remaining refugee was evacuated into the night last week. It pauses over a decade of Australia's processing of asylum ...

Five years later, Rashid paid a smuggler to take him by boat to Australia. Instead, he washed up at Christmas Island – another offshore detention centre – and was later transferred to Nauru, where he ...

open image in gallery Thousands of Australians join a rally calling for the closure of the Manus and Nauru detention centres (Recep Sakar/Anadolu Agency/Getty) (Getty) The first refugees arrived ...

One of these contractors, Broadspectrum, is still in charge of the Manus and Nauru detention centres. As of October 2017, just over 600 men live in the Manus detention centre.

Asylum seekers on Nauru when it first opened in 2001. Australia's controversial detention centre on Nauru is empty, after the last remaining refugee was evacuated into the night last week.