{"id":75281,"date":"2025-11-22T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/22\/a-translation-of-the-nauruan-presidents-remarks-will-stay-suppressed-for-a-decade-but-secrecy-in-australias-offshore-policy-is-nothing-new"},"modified":"2025-11-22T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:00:17","slug":"a-translation-of-the-nauruan-presidents-remarks-will-stay-suppressed-for-a-decade-but-secrecy-in-australias-offshore-policy-is-nothing-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75281","title":{"rendered":"A translation of the Nauruan president\u2019s remarks will stay suppressed for a decade \u2013 but secrecy in Australia\u2019s offshore policy is nothing new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Scott Morrison\u2019s \u2018on-water matters\u2019 to the Albanese government\u2019s MOU with Nauru, successive governments\u2019 attitude to legitimate scrutiny has been one of hostility<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Offshore, secrecy dominates. But it doesn\u2019t stop at the water\u2019s edge.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Australia brokered a new offshore arrangement with Nauru, striking a deal to send members of the so-called NZYQ cohort \u2013 non-citizens with criminal histories \u2013 to the Pacific island. Australia would give Nauru more than $400m in exchange.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/22\/a-translation-of-the-nauruan-presidents-remarks-will-stay-suppressed-for-a-decade-but-secrecy-in-australias-offshore-policy-is-nothing-new\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Scott Morrison\u2019s \u2018on-water matters\u2019 to the Albanese government\u2019s MOU with Nauru, successive governments\u2019 attitude to legitimate scrutiny has been one of hostilityGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOffshore, secrecy dominate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,645,388,324,629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-australian-politics","category-nauru"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75282,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75281\/revisions\/75282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}