Nauru

Australia's government says it will transfer a refugee who became pregnant after she was raped on Nauru for medical treatment in Australia if doctors advise it.

The Nauru government is reportedly preparing to allow local journalists to enter the island's asylum seeker detention centre, but steep visa fees for foreign journalists will remain.

Nauru's government has backtracked on its commitment to process all of the asylum seekers detained at Australia's detention centre there.

Australia's highest court has reserved its judgement in a case that challenges the constitutionality of Canberra's offshore detention of asylum seekers in the Pacific.

There are concerns for a pregnant Somali woman being held on Nauru who says she was raped.

Australia is refusing to grant an abortion to a Somali woman who was raped after Canberra sent her to Nauru.

The legality of Australia's role in the Nauru immigration detention centre is being examined by Australia's High Court.

A suspended Nauru opposition MP Roland Kun says processing 600 asylum-seeker applications in one week is logistically impossible.

Australia's immigration minister Peter Dutton says Canberra is in negotiations to find new third party resettlement options for its refugees, whom Australia refuses to settle itself.

A Nauru opposition MP says few people on the island are aware of the government's announcement to finalise about 600 asylum-seeker applications within the next week.

Australia's Human Rights Law Centre says a court hearing into the lawfulness of offshore detention will go ahead despite a recent announcement the Nauru facility has become an 'open centre'.

The Nauru government says it will process all asylum seekers on the island within a week, and says all detainees are now able to leave the facility and move freely.

Australia's Human Rights Law Centre says the opening up of Nauru's asylum seeker detention centres is welcome but fundamental problems remain.

Asylum seekers on Nauru are to be allowed to move freely around the island from today but refugee activists say recent attacks make a mockery of the new arrangement.

A pensioner on Nauru who had her fortnightly benefit stripped because she attended an anti-government protest says she has no regrets about her actions.

A pensioner on Nauru who had her fortnightly benefit stripped because she attended an anti-government protest in June says she will struggle without the payment.