Latest news and comment on Manus Island and Papua New Guinea
June 2024
After a decade in detention I call Australia home. Labor’s deportation bill is horrific
Farhad Bandesh
Refugees like me have already been through so much. All we ever wanted was freedom
March 2024
‘If anything happens to me, look after my family’: Manus Island death leaves unanswered questions on offshore detention
‘The wait is too long’: the refugees left in PNG after a decade in Australia’s offshore detention
February 2024
‘Incredible failure’: KPMG rejects claims it assessed ‘the wrong company’ before $423m payment to Paladin
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Behrouz Boochani: ‘I was not a victim. I was a fighter’
December 2023
The Australian detention system was established to destroy us, but we refugees are still here
Behrouz Boochani
We were banished to Manus and Nauru, out of sight and out of mind. We are calling for a royal commission because the Australian public deserves the truth
October 2023
Last refugees in Papua New Guinea to begin leaving ‘within weeks’ after Australian funding runs out
Exclusive: Men left without healthcare and facing eviction, while local businesses are owned tens of millions of dollars
September 2023
Refugees in PNG told they will be evicted after Australian-sponsored housing bills not paid
Exclusive: Former Manus Island detainees facing loss of accommodation, but the Australian government claims it is no longer responsible for their welfare
August 2023
Australia settles with family of refugee Reza Barati, murdered on Manus Island in 2014
Exclusive: The government has reached a confidential settlement with Barati’s family, who say they ‘fought for justice for Reza’
May 2023
Ten years of Guardian Australia
Scoops that made a difference: revisiting the big stories Guardian Australia broke – video
Ten years of Guardian Australia
Behrouz Boochani, the refugee writer who exposed the cruelty of Australia’s island jail
April 2023
Manus Island and Nauru: previously unseen testimony and AI imagery reveal ‘unimaginable’ part of Australian history
The witness statements were collected during more than 300 hours of interviews with refugees as part of a now discontinued pro bono class action
March 2023
‘I need my freedom’: Mohammed Al-Bdairi should be at the birth of his child – but he remains in detention
The Iraqi refugee’s visa was cancelled in 2019 but the Administrative Appeals Tribunal overturned the ruling in December
January 2023
Anthony Albanese to push ‘family-first’ security treaty in address to Papua New Guinea parliament
Australian PM to call for ‘a swift conclusion to negotiations’ to treaty and say both countries should ‘work as equals with our fellow Pacific states’
December 2022
John Howard’s government considered letting offshore detainees into Australia in 2002
Behrouz Boochani in Australia: ‘Some of those politicians who barred me are gone. But I am here’
September 2022
Government and security company reach multimillion-dollar settlements with Manus Island guards
Multiple former employees of G4S who suffered physical or mental harm after 2014 riots have been compensated days into a predicted weeks-long trial
July 2022
We pretend there has been change under Labor but hundreds of refugees are still in detention
Behrouz Boochani
After taking happy snaps in Biloela the new government has made no effort to change Australia’s cruel immigration policy on refugees arriving by boat
March 2022
Australian arts in focus
Painted with coffee and toothbrushes: Kurdish refugees enter the Archibald prize
The Australian government’s argument against sending refugees to New Zealand was always absurd
