Nauru

A Nauru court has adjourned a hearing on whether the President, Baron Waqa, was correctly served a petition against his election in July.

The Nauru government has passed amendments to the country's passport laws to give it broader powers to cancel passports.

An independent Australian MP Andrew Wilkie, who has been denied access to Nauru, says he believes the Australian government has much to hide.

The Nauru Supreme Court will hold a hearing tomorrow to decide whether an election petition filed against the country's president was correctly served.

A Danish parliamentarian who was meant to visit Nauru last week says his country should adopt Australia's policy of jailing asylum seekers whose identity is not immediately known.

Two more countries have joined the Pacific Coalition on West Papua, voicing their concerns over human rights abuses in the Indonesian province and asking that the United Nations intervene.

An advisor for some of the Danish MPs who were stopped from travelling to Nauru on a fact-finding mission last week says he's not surprised it happened. Audio

An Australian NGO says Wilson Security's decision not to renew its contract for security at detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru has left Australia's offshore detention policy foundering.

An Australian NGO says Wilson Security's announcement that it will not renew its contract for security at detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru is yet another blow for offshore detention.

Wilson Security says it will not renew its contract to run Australia's offshore detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.

A retired Australian judge has offered to swap places with a refugee held by Canberra in one of its offshore detention centres in Nauru or Papua New Guinea.

A Nauru man has had his only source of income, his pension, cut off by the government.

A former secretary of justice in Nauru, David Lambourne, says passports cannot be withdrawn on the basis of alleged past conduct.

A Danish politician says the delegation she is travelling with has cancelled its visit to Nauru after the Nauru government said some members of the group were not welcome.

Former Nauru MPs have confirmed they lodged petitions against the results of the July election.

A Danish parliamentian planning to visit Nauru says the study tour of Australia's asylum seeker detention centre was meant to be kept secret.

Activists in Wellington say New Zealand and Australia should come up with a joint plan to deal with asylum seekers without putting them through detention.

Protestors and opposition MPs in Wellington say New Zealand should be holding Australia to account over its treatment of asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus Island.