投稿者: Helen Davidson
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UK reports two new cases as outbreak spreads and losses on stock markets mount This live blog is closed. Follow the latest coronavirus updates hereTrump puts VP Pence in charge of US responseMore new cases outside China than inside, says WHOCoronavirus…
The sole occupants of a million-dollar facility off the country’s coast are two adults and two small children, who are paying the price for its war on refugees It should be one of Australia’s premier tourist destinations – a remote Indian ocean island …
Exclusive: Conditions inside Australia-funded Bomana centre prompted dozens to agree to return to country of originLeaked pictures from inside Papua New Guinea’s Bomana immigration detention centre have given a glimpse of where up to 20 asylum seekers …
Lead defendant Mathew Batsiua sentenced to 18 months for riot over 2015 demonstration while others receive lesser termsA group of protesters known as the Nauru 19 have been sentenced to jail after a highly controversial retrial for charges stemming fro…
Lead defendant Mathew Batsiua tells court ‘history will absolve’ the group who had ‘stood up for democracy’A group of high-profile protesters known as the Nauru 19 have been found guilty of rioting and other charges after a widely condemned trial was r…
Geoffrey Muecke says Nauruan government regarded group as guilty without ensuring a fair trialAustralian judge Geoffrey Muecke is reluctant to go on the record. It is “anathema” to him that any judge, retired or active, would speak publicly on a case t…
Squire Jeremiah and Rutherford Jeremiah are among the group set to face a new trial beginning on MondayTwo members of the so-called Nauru 19 have sought asylum in Australia ahead of a retrial this week. Lawyers say the trial has been rigged against the…
Dan McGarry believes visa was rejected because of his paper’s critical coverage of government The Vanuatu government has refused to renew the work permit of its largest newspaper’s long-serving director, Dan McGarry, in what he said was a “straight up …
Documents reveal ‘muted’ attempts to convince Indonesian officials to allow free vote to proceedThe US government knew for months that Indonesia’s military was supporting and arming militias in East Timor in the lead-up to the 1999 independence referen…
Medecins Sans Frontieres accuses Nauru of breaching medical ethicsA 36-year-old Pakistani refugee has been hospitalised after he set himself alight on Nauru on Friday.This comes amid warnings the government’s attempts to repeal the medevac laws could h…
James Marape says Australia, with New Zealand and PNG, has a moral obligation to listen to the voices of smaller island nationsAustralia has a responsibility to protect the Pacific region from the impacts of climate change, PNG’s newly appointed prime …