Nauru

A deal has been reached in Australia to keep an asylum seeker baby in Queensland, at least temporarily.

The Nauru government has confirmed it is tightening the rules for Australians and New Zealanders wanting to visit the country.

The Nauru government claims reports it had revoked all visitor visas issued for travel to Nauru by Australian and New Zealand passport holders are wrong.

New Zealand's offer to accept asylum seekers is an embarrassment for Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, a refugee group says.

Claire Anterea, a climate activist from Kiribati, says the phrase "climate refugee" always brings her to tears. Audio

A Nauru climate change activist says a brain drain and a generation's worth of school drop outs are preventing the country from tackling climate challenges.

Profits have tripled for the operator of Australia's detention camps for asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea and on Nauru.

Doctors at a Brisbane hospital have refused to release a one-year-old girl, badly burnt at a detention centre on Nauru, until they are happy with where she will live.

Clergy in Australia are offering sanctuary to asylum seekers who face being sent back to the Nauru detention centre, even if authorities come to knock the doors down. Audio

Some of the dozens of asylum seekers waiting to go back to Nauru are suffering from cancer and terminal illnesses, a senior Australian immigration official says.

The Nauru government says claims about the country not being fit for child asylum seekers to return from Australia are offensive lies.

Amnesty International says Nauru must grant access to human rights groups and foreign journalists now an Australian court has ruled offshore detention is lawful.

The UN has urged Australia to refrain from transferring hundreds of asylum seekers to Nauru.

The lawyer for a group of asylum seekers in Australia who face imminent return to Nauru after a High Court ruling is calling on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to intervene.