An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- 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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Australian government has agreed to pay detainees on Manus Island more than $70 million (US$52.75 million) in the “largest settlement in a human rights class-action” in the country’s ...

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 ...

Australia restarted its offshore detention program on Nauru in 2012 in an effort to stop a surge of people attempting to arrive in Australia via boat seeking asylum. The island nation is more than ...

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.

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 ...

An Australian tourist allegedly wanted for sex crimes in his home country was arrested on a tropical Thai island. Fugitive holidaymaker Helio Taiyang Richardson, 62, was said to have flown to ...

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, north ...

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.