Australia is to stop sending asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea, marking an end to its controversial detention regime in the nation. Papua New Guinea is one of two Pacific countries paid by Canberra ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia hopes to send thousands of Iranian asylum seekers back to their homeland under a new deal with Tehran, an Australian official said Wednesday. Foreign Minister ...

Australia on Sunday defended a A$2.5 billion ($1.62 billion) deal to deport hundreds of non-citizens to the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru over the next 30 years, a plan criticised by human rights ...

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has confirmed people-smugglers are using smaller and faster boats in a bid to evade ...

GENEVA, 26 August (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency said on Friday that a review of Australian measures for asylum-seekers arriving by boat announced this month had raised serious protection questions.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to send Gazan asylum seekers home since the ...

In Australia, two women hung from a bridge and unfurled a giant banner over a Melbourne freeway reading “Let Them Stay,” as a protest against the government’s plans to relocate 267 asylum seekers from ...

UNHCR notes with deep interest the recommendations of the Expert Panel on Asylum-Seekers, in its report released today. UNHCR agrees that there are no quick or simple solutions to the complexity of ...

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian rescuers were trying to help a migrant-filled boat in bad weather and rough seas off Indonesia on Wednesday, a day after the countries agreed to strengthen maritime ties to ...