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Australia signs agreement to send migrants to Nauru
Taipei Times
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August 30, 2025
Australia has announced an agreement with the tiny Pacific nation Nauru enabling it to send hundreds of immigrants to the barren island. The deal affects more than 220 immigrants in Australia, including some convicted of serious crimes. Australian...
Ranked: The 20 Most Densely Populated Countries and Territories
Visual Capitalist
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August 30, 2025
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Nations and Territories With the Highest Population Density This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible...
Nauru Airlines relaunches Suva route after more than a decade
The Fiji Times
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August 30, 2025
A TOTAL of 108 passengers aboard Nauru Airlines flight ON019 landed at Nausori International Airport at 11.47pm on Thursday on its inaugural flight to Suva, marking the return of the Republic of Nauru’s flag carrier since ceasing this route in the...
I'm the youngest solo traveller to visit 100 countries - but my age got me into BIG trouble with airport security
Daily Mail
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August 30, 2025
From bomb shelters to beach views to a bungled kidnapping attempt, Arjun Malaviya's year-long, record-breaking journey was far from the average teenager's gap year. The 19-year-old student become the youngest person in history to visit 100...
Australia plans to send immigrants to Nauru after signing deal
South China Morning Post
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August 30, 2025
Australia has announced an agreement with the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru, enabling it to send hundreds of immigrants to the barren island. The deal affects more than 220 immigrants in Australia, including some convicted of serious crimes. Home...
Government signs $400 million deal to deport foreign criminals to Nauru
Sky News Australia
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August 30, 2025
The Australian Government has signed a $400 million deal which will allow it to deport foreign-born criminals to Nauru. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has travelled to Nauru to sign a memorandum of understanding with the country's president....
Australia strikes $400M deal to offshore deportees to Nauru
Al Mayadeen
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August 30, 2025
Canberra faces backlash over secretive deal to relocate visa-cancelled individuals to Nauru, raising concerns about human rights and regional pressure. Australia has formalized a $400 million agreement with Nauru to deport hundreds of foreign-born...
Nauru strikes $400m deal to take foreign criminals from Australia
Sky News Australia
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August 30, 2025
Australia has confirmed it will deport hundreds of foreign-born criminals to Nauru under a $400 million agreement signed by Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke. The move comes just months after a High Court decision forced the release of around 350...
Australia signs deal to send immigrants to Nauru
The Peninsula
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August 30, 2025
Sydney: Australia has announced an agreement with the tiny Pacific nation Nauru enabling it to send hundreds of immigrants to the barren island. The deal affects more than 220 immigrants in Australia, including some convicted of serious crimes....
Australia signs $400 million deportation deal with Nauru
Seven News
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August 30, 2025
Australia has signed an agreement with Nauru to deport former detainees without a valid visa to the Pacific Islands nation in a move slammed by refugee advocates. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke quietly visited the tiny atoll nation on Friday...
Australian government moves to axe legal rights for mass deportations to Nauru
World Socialist Web Site
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August 30, 2025
Yesterday, for the second time this week, the Australian Labor government launched previously unannounced measures to overturn basic legal and democratic rights. Its immediate aim is to consign up to 400 former immigration detainees to the...
Greens, refugee advocates criticise $400m deal with Nauru to deport former detainees
SBS
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The Greens and refugee advocates have criticised a multi-million dollar agreement between Australia and Nauru, paving the way for non-citizens who have had their visas cancelled on character grounds to be deported to the Pacific nation. Australia...
Federal government inks $400m deal with Nauru to resettle non-citizens
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 30, 2025
The Albanese government will pay Nauru more than $408 million to resettle hundreds of non-citizens caught up in the High Court's NZYQ decision after the home affairs minister signed a deal in an unannounced visit to the Micronesian nation on...
Australia signs $400m deportation deal with Nauru
The Advocate
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August 30, 2025
The memorandum "contains undertakings for the proper treatment and long-term residence of people who have no legal right to stay in Australia, to be received in Nauru", according to a statement from Mr Burke.
Hundreds of crims deported to Nauru in huge Tony Burke move
PerthNow
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August 30, 2025
Hundreds of foreign-born criminals on Australian streets will be deported to Nauru after Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke signed a $400m deal with Pacific nation Nauru. On Friday afternoon, Mr Burke issued a statement that he had met with Nauru...
Australian government criticised over ‘disgraceful’ $400m deal to deport foreign-born former detainees to Nauru
The Guardian
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August 30, 2025
Human rights lawyers, refugee advocates and the Greens have accused the Albanese government of striking a “discriminatory, disgraceful and dangerous” deal to deport hundreds of foreign-born former detainees at a cost of almost half a billion...
Hundreds of crims deported in huge move
Townsville Bulletin
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August 30, 2025
Hundreds of foreign-born criminals on Australian streets will be deported to Nauru after Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke signed a $400m deal with Pacific nation Nauru. On Friday afternoon, Mr Burke issued a statement that he had met with Nauru...
'Obey our laws or you get punted': Opposition react to Labor's deportation plan
9News
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August 30, 2025
Hundreds of foreign-born criminals who were let out onto Australian streets following a landmark High Court decision will be deported to Nauru, after Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke signed a $400 million deal with the Pacific island nation....
Nauru expands Fiji connection
Islands Business
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August 29, 2025
FIJI took a podium finish through Iris Bentley Fisher at the 2025 International Va’a Federation (IVF) World Distance Championships in Niteroi, Brazil. Fisher, 16, took bronze in the 12km race in the V1 Junior 16 category in her debut performance....
Burke signs $400m deal to deport hundreds of former detainees to Nauru
WAtoday
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August 29, 2025
Burke was given the sensitive Home Affairs portfolio last year, tasked with neutralising the political attacks that had plagued the Albanese government since the NZYQ case. Loading Earlier this month, Burke told this masthead that his approach to...