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Nauru: The island that became rich overnight from bird droppings and slowly fell into economic dependence

From the air, Nauru hardly looks like the sort of place that would appear in conversations about wealth. It is a small Pacific island, just 21 square kilometres in size, isolated from major markets and home to a population smaller than many suburban neighbourhoods. Yet for a period during the…

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Pacific nation of Nauru wants to change its name as it moves on from colonial past

Island may soon be called Naoero – an Indigenous name that honours the country’s heritage and identity

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Morning Mail: Penny Wong’s Israel broadside, Nauru issues rare statement, snow season fears

Foreign affairs minister says she believes women who claim sexual assault by Israeli troops; island nation issues rare statement after whistleblower claim

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Morning Mail: Daughter’s plea to save father from Nauru, Kuwait airport hit, the Popovic ‘machine’

An Australian woman says her family will fall apart if her father is deported to the Pacific island

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Sara fears her father will be deported from Australia to Nauru – a place of ‘final and lifelong punishment’

Youssef served time in jail for a string of offences. Now, as one of 350 non-citizens who make up the NZYQ cohort, he faces deportation

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The 10 Smallest Countries In The World, And The Mind-Blowing Facts Behind Each One

What is the smallest country in the world? From Vatican City's 800 residents to Nauru's phosphate boom and bust, here are 10 tiny nations with extraordinary stories.

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‘Indefensible’: alleged child abuse survivor takes on Albanese government over $2.5bn Nauru deal

Lawyers of Hazara man who was allegedly sexually abused by carer launch bid to prevent imminent deportation to Pacific island

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Pacific island nation charts path to diesel freedom

A major renewables partnership is in the works for Nauru as the diesel-dependent nation seeks emancipation from energy markets while cutting emissions.

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Man who murdered his wife loses landmark appeal against being deported to tiny island nation

Eight men have been resettled in Nauru so far under the deal that has been criticized in Australia as being excessively expensive

The Independent UK

Australia deporting refugee to Nauru may cause his ‘imminent’ and ‘preventable’ death, court hears

Legal team of man who was part of cohort of non-citizens freed after high court decision argues Nauru’s medical facilities are ‘insufficient’ to treat his severe asthma

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Albanese defends $2.5bn Nauru deal as transparency advocates warn taxpayer dollars could fuel ‘kleptocracy’

PM dismisses concerns over corruption allegations against senior Nauruan politicians aired in parliament, saying secret offshore processing deal ‘entirely appropriate’

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Corruption allegations levelled at Nauru in Senate

Nauru's President David Adeang and Foreign Minister Lionel Aingimea have been allegedly linked to suspicious financial activity involving Australian funds.

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Secret Nauru asylum seeker transcript revealed

The Nauru President's explanation to his people of why the tiny Micronesian nation is accepting Australian asylum seekers has been revealed.

AAP

Nauruan president makes surprise visit to meet Albanese government as another man quietly deported to Pacific island

President David Adeang was spotted by ABC cameras as Nauru received its fourth member from the NZYQ cohort

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Two Sydney hospital employees critical after car mounts footpath and strikes them outside entrance – as it happened

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Albanese government deports two more men to Nauru in secret, infuriating human rights advocates

Exclusive: Sources say a Sudanese national and another man were chartered to the former regional processing centre last week, joining one other person

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Australia lacks ‘legitimate objective’ in fast-tracking Nauru deportations, Labor-led committee finds

Parliamentary committee warns international human rights obligations could be breached under new regime

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Morning Mail: Alarm at Nauru detention contract price rise; LIV golf course plan threatens Indigenous site; Albanese backs Starmer

Nauru detention contract called ‘gross mismanagement’; Indigenous community ‘distressed’ by proposed golf course upgrade; Albanese attends UK Labour conference

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US private prisons operator to be paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru in quiet expansion of contract

Exclusive: A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ and a process ‘run out of control’

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Labor and Coalition pass deportation laws set to make Nauru a ‘penal colony’ for Australia, critics say

Legislation validates flawed decisions, cuts off appeals and gives government sweeping powers to deport people, campaigners claim

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Australia to send hundreds to Nauru in $1.6bn migrant resettlement deal

The Pacific island will resettle up to 354 former detainees Canberra says have ‘no legal right to remain in Australia’.

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People banished to Nauru by Australia face hostile reception as $2.5bn cost of deal revealed

Home affairs department reveals just-signed transfer deal, worth $408m upfront to Nauru, forecast to cost Australia $2.5bn over 30 years

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Morning Mail: Warning on Nauru plan, neo-Nazi charged over Camp Sovereignty attack, 40-year-old ‘megaburg’ crumbles

Lawyers say stripping non-citizens of natural justice is ‘extreme overreach’; Thomas Sewell to face Melbourne magistrates court today

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Up to 80,000 people in Australia may be affected by ‘sledgehammer’ powers to deport noncitizens to Nauru, lawyers warn

Greens senator David Shoebridge accuses Tony Burke of ‘doing his Peter Dutton impression, dog-whistling and punching down on migrants’

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Australia will pay Nauru to resettle foreign-born criminals

Australia has agreed to pay Nauru to resettle foreign-born criminals who cannot be held indefinitely in detention

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