Nauru

A petition signed by 65,000 people in Australia calling for the immediate shut down of its asylum seeker detention camps abroad is to be presented to the Australian Senate.

Reports from Nauru say windows have been broken at the island's parliament where today's meeting has been adjourned after a protest involving hundreds.

A protest involving hundreds of people has been staged in front of the Nauru parliament which was to meet today.

The United Nations has criticised Australia on its treatment of refugees and migrants from vulnerable countries.

Reports from Australia say a baby was sent to Canberra's detention centre on Nauru in defiance of advice given to the immigration department.

The government of Nauru has sharply attacked the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, accusing it of spreading lies by replacing journalism with activism.

Australia's opposition Greens leader Richard Di Natale has demanded an apology from the immigration minister Peter Dutton.

Former Save the Children staff say there are inadequate policies in place to respond to crimes against children at the Nauru detention centre. Audio

Australia's immigration department has confirmed that an opposition Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young was spied on during her visit to Nauru where Canberra runs a detention centre for asylum seekers.

An Australian senate inquiry into serious allegations and conditions at the Nauru detention centre has heard medical staff were told not to report psychological health problems suffered by asylum… Audio

A suspended Nauru MP is calling on the government to allow a full police inquiry into bribery allegations implicating the Justice Minister David Adeang.

Australia's Prime Minister has rejected suggestions a Greens senator was being spied on while in Nauru, saying she was instead being looked after.

Nauru says an Australian medical team will be sent to Nauru to operate on the broken arm of a refugee boy.

Amnesty International is using the findings of a new report to express concerns for the safety of four refugees transferred to Cambodia under an agreement with Australia.

Four refugees who had been in the Australian detention camps in Nauru have now arrived in Cambodia.

Cambodia is today expecting the arrival of four refugees who are the first to agree to take part in a resettlement deal brokered with Australia for transfer from Nauru.

The Nauru president is hailing the opening of a bank on the island - the first in 15 years - as a sign his government can get things done.