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 ...

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 ...

Australian lawmakers passed a law Thursday to streamline the deportation of hundreds of people who have been denied Australian visas to “third countries” where they are not citizens — in an echo of ...

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

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is under growing pressure to address hardline policies which overshadow the launch of Canberra's bid to join the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday.

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 ...

Steep funding cuts to the government’s ‘safety net’ are pushing asylum seekers awaiting resolution of their immigration status into poverty and homelessness.

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 ...

The Australian Government will not reveal if it has intercepted two asylum seeker boats that reportedly got into trouble in waters off Christmas Island last week. The ABC understands two asylum seeker ...