Nauru
High Court strikes down Labor’s ankle-monitoring regime for a second time
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said the government’s deportation deal with Nauru softened the blow. Six people have so far been sent to the Pacific island, with 27 more issued visas.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
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Iranian soccer players got asylum overnight. These refugees reveal a very different story
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke’s intervention was swift and decisive. But it was bittersweet for other refugees trapped in a system described as cruel and unfair.
- Bevan Shields
Bikie-linked security firm still guarding Nauru detainees
Personnel at MA Services Group have repeatedly attempted to cover up its role in an ongoing operation involving a private security force sent to Nauru to guard exiled Australian immigration detainees.
- Nick McKenzie and Cameron Houston
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The scramble to save a deal: How a security giant fought to stay in Nauru
Once the arrangement was outed in public, the booming company’s founder knew he had to move fast to avoid reputation damage.
- Nick McKenzie and Cameron Houston
Australia was alerted to millions in suspicious payments to Nauru politicians. Then it signed a $2.5b deal
Nauru’s current president along with a former president and his wife were suspected of money laundering and corruption by Australian authorities in 2022.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
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Watchdogs spent millions with security firm linked to Finks bikie gang
The company is tied to the outlaw motorcycle gang partly through its involvement in a controversial security deal on Nauru.
- Nick McKenzie and Cameron Houston
Secret transcript: Nauru hopes that deportees it receives in $2.5b deal will go home
The Albanese government is arguing it has no responsibility for what happens to people it successfully deports to Nauru, even if they are subject to harm.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
$2.5b Nauru deal won’t be made public without court challenge or agreement, says Burke
A secretive memorandum of understanding has been kept under wraps since the deal was inked in August.
- Nick Newling
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Wong, Burke admit to secret meetings with Nauru president
Wong’s office said she “raised recent media reports” with Nauru President David Adeang on Monday, but not until after he was photographed entering Parliament House on Tuesday.
- Brittany Busch, James Massola and Nick McKenzie
‘Dirty deals’: Nauru rorting, bikie gang allegations to be referred to NACC
Allegations of rorting, graft and bikie gangs infiltrating critical border security operations are set to be referred to the national anti-corruption watchdog.
- Matthew Knott and Nicole Precel