Australia to pay Nauru $1.62bn to house deportees

SYDNEY: Australia has agreed to pay the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru $1.62 billion over three decades to host deported non-citizens, with accommodation for the first deportees already prepared, Australian officials said on Wednesday. Prime...

Cost of Nauru deportation deal revealed in late-night inquiry as PM pressed on lack of detail

Australian taxpayers will be slugged $2.5 billion over 30 years to deport hundreds of former immigration detainees to Nauru under a deal with the Pacific nation, a parliamentary committee has been told. The Albanese government signed a memorandum...

Labor’s secretive Nauru deal could slug taxpayers billions over 30 years

Australia could be staring down a staggering $2.5 billion bill to relocate hundreds of ex-detainees to Nauru, with officials warning payments could flow for the next 30 years. The Albanese government last week finalised an agreement with the...

‘Mess of their own making’: Sussan Ley blasts Labor’s ‘massive fail’ on Nauru deal

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has criticised the Albanese government’s “massive expenditure” on its Nauru deportation deal, claiming it is a “mess of their own making”. A parliamentary inquiry was told yesterday the Government's NZYQ resettlement...

Australia’s deportation deal with Nauru to cost $2.5b

Australian taxpayers will be slugged $2.5 billion over 30 years to deport hundreds of former immigration detainees to Nauru under a “secret” deal. The Albanese government signed a memorandum of understanding with Nauru, offering more than $400...

Australia sends help for dengue

An Australian medical team and dengue test kits are part of the assistance from the Albanese government to Samoa and the Pacific to respond to the dengue outbreak. Australia is providing more than AU$1 million in assistance to respond to current...

Live: Commonwealth reaches $475m settlement with Robodebt victims

13m agoThu 4 Sep 2025 at 5:18am Fin! And that's a wrap on Question Time until parliament returns in a month. As he closed the session, the prime minister couldn't resist passing on some sage advice... "I ask that further questions be placed on the...

Morning Mail: Nauruan concern over new transfers from Australia, Xi and Putin’s hot mic moment, De Minaur loses at US Open

Morning everyone. Nauruan residents are “worried for our pleasant island” under the Australian government’s controversial new $2.5bn plan to forcibly transfer a group of non-citizens there. Islanders are asking: “Where will they live? Will they...

Australia's 'secret' deportation deal with Nauru to cost taxpayers $2.5billion

By AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: 11:05 EDT, 3 September 2025 | Updated: 11:05 EDT, 3 September 2025 Australian taxpayers will be slugged $2.5 billion over 30 years to deport hundreds of former immigration detainees to Nauru under a...

Nigeria Not Bothered About US President Trump’s Tariffs, Trade Policies – Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu has claimed that Nigeria’s economy is not moved by whatever trade policies the United States president, Donald Trump, has brought or plans to bring. Tinubu, on Tuesday, told visiting members of The Buhari Organisation (TBO)...

A test of unity: Can the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ meeting keep the family together

Chinese military activity in the Pacific has reached new levels in the past year. A PLA Navy task group circumnavigated Australia in February, staging a live-fire exercise in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. Beijing registered 26...

Labor’s ‘totally bonkers’ deportation deal will give Nauru $2.5 billion in 30 years

Home Affairs officials suggested the group would not be deported to the island of 12,000 people en masse. “It’s important, for this arrangement to succeed, that people are moved over there in a planned and steady way,” said Clare Sharp, the...

Australia To Ease Deportation Rules, Signs Refugee Deal With Nauru

Home Australia Australia To Ease Deportation Rules, Signs Refugee Deal With Nauru The planned new law removes procedural fairness when Australia deports a non-citizen to a third country and is designed to limit court appeals, said the government....

Australian PM defends planned mass deportations to Nauru

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took to national television on Monday to defend his Labor government’s plan for mass deportations to the tiny remote Pacific island state of Nauru, while refusing to provide any details of the scheme. Australian...

Australia agrees to pay Pacific nation of Nauru $1.62 billion to house deportees

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia has agreed to pay the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru A$2.5 billion ($1.62 billion) over three decades to host deported non-citizens, with accommodation for the first deportees already prepared,...

The Pacific war and the myth of liberation 80 years on

Eighty years after the end of the Second World War imperialist tensions are again rising in the Pacific, with Australia boosting its military spending by hundreds of billions of dollars to acquire nuclear submarines for a US-led war on China. The...

Greek experts highlight human cost and global responsibility in the refugee crisis

On Monday evening, an esteemed panel of experts on refugees and asylum seekers gathered for an event titled Navigating Displacement and Belonging: Comparative Perspectives on Refugee Integration in Greece and Australia. The human toll of...

Free TV Australia extends partnership with Football Australia for greater Pacific broadcasting

Free TV Australia and Football Australia have extended their partnership to broadcast “matches across the Pacific through PacificAus TV”. Football Australia and Free TV Australia have extended their partnership to distribute matches across the...

iBASIS Acquires Global Voice, IPX and Messaging Wholesale Assets From Telstra International and Signs Long-Term Agreement for the Provision of These Services

The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approvals, represents a major expansion of iBASIS’ commercial scale, geographic reach, and customer portfolio across the Asia-Pacific region, reinforcing its presence in Hong Kong and Singapore, and...

Pacific news in brief for 25 August

Jotham Napat is Vanuatu's fifth prime minister in four years. Photo: Facebook / Jotham Napat Vanuatu - education Prime Minister Jotham Napat has told media his government is actively addressing outstanding teacher pay claims. Teachers began their...