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Nauru’s unorthodox money-making schemes are a ‘riches to rags to riches’...
Pacific News Service
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By Doug Dingwall Nauru’s government was once so flush with cash it funded an ill-fated West End musical in which Leonardo da Vinci had a love affair with Mona Lisa. The show bombed and the critics hated it. It was a venture that cost the country...
Australian PM defends planned mass deportations to Nauru
World Socialist Web Site
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September 3, 2025
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took to national television on Monday to defend his Labor government’s plan for mass deportations to the tiny remote Pacific island state of Nauru, while refusing to provide any details of the scheme. Australian...
Up to 80,000 people in Australia may be affected by ‘sledgehammer’ powers to deport noncitizens to Nauru, lawyers warn
The Guardian
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September 2, 2025
Up to 80,000 people in Australia may be affected by the Albanese government’s proposed powers to strip basic legal protections from the noncitizens it plans to deport to Nauru, refugee lawyers warn. The proposed federal powers, revealed last...
Nauru was once the second-wealthiest nation. Here's how it lost everything
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 2, 2025
Nauru's government was once so flush with cash it funded an ill-fated West End musical in which Leonardo da Vinci had a love affair with the Mona Lisa. The show bombed and the critics hated it. It was a venture that cost the country millions of...
Coalition sends Labor’s secretive Nauru deportation deal to senate inquiry
Sky News Australia
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September 2, 2025
The Coalition has decided to send Labor’s deal with Nauru concerning the deportation of NZYQ-linked criminal non-citizens to a senate inquiry. It comes after the Albanese government agreed to pay Nauru $408 million to relocate about 200 criminal...
Nauru president says sovereign wealth fund ‘building the nation’
Marianas Variety
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David Adeang YAREN (Government of Nauru) — President David Adeang has hailed the success of the Nauru Intergenerational Trust Fund, which he chairs, saying that no one should underestimate the country’s economic turnaround or the importance of the...
Scope to up climate capital flows to 5 richest African nations
ESI Africa
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September 1, 2025
Africa’s investment narrative is increasingly shaped by innovation and sustainability, according to the recently released The Africa Wealth Report 2025. As an example of this, the report by Henley & Partners cites Google’s recently announced $25...
By sending non-visa holders to Nauru, Australia is shifting its responsibilities
The Conversation
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September 1, 2025
The Home Affairs minister, Tony Burke, revealed late last week he had visited Nauru in August and signed a memorandum of understanding with its government. Under the agreement, Nauru will grant long-term visas to members of a group known as the...
Refugee Dunghills: Australia Makes Another Nauru Deal
The News Chronicle
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September 1, 2025
Over the last two decades, Australia has made a name for itself by pursuing barbaric policies towards refugees and asylum seekers arriving by sea. Priding these moves as noble and humanitarian, cruelty born of kindness, these have entailed...
The Pacific’s united front on climate action is splintering over deep-sea mining
The Conversation
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August 31, 2025
In recent years, Pacific island nations have earned global credibility as champions of climate action. Pacific leaders view sea level rise as an existential threat. But this united front is now under strain as some Pacific nations pursue a...
Climate change is driving fish stocks from countries’ waters to the high seas: Study
Mongabay
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August 29, 2025
A new study found that more than half of the world’s straddling stocks will shift across the maritime borders between exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and the high seas by 2050. Most of these shifts will be into the high seas, where fisheries...
Australia Defends Deportation Deal With Tiny Island of Nauru
Mint
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August 31, 2025
(Bloomberg) -- Australia defended an agreement allowing for the deportation of hundreds of formerly detained immigrants to the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru, following criticism from refugee organizations. The agreement was signed on Friday during...
Fisherman’s call to save the ocean
Islands Business
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September 2, 2025
LEADERS of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) have spent time at sea ahead of crucial tuna talks in Tuvalu. After their ministerial meeting for the 4th PNA Leaders’ Summit, the leaders discussed national and bilateral plans in an informal...
Labor denies $400m payment to Nauru is payoff for taking detainees
Sky News Australia
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August 30, 2025
The Albanese government has denied that it has effectively bribed Nauru to take the high-profile NZYQ cohort of foreign-born criminals away from Australia. The Albanese government quietly signed a deal with Nauru recently to deport hundreds of...
Labor’s $400m Nauru deal gives power to deport 200 detainees
Sky News Australia
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August 30, 2025
Senior government sources have told Sky News the Albanese government’s deal with Nauru will give it the capacity to move 200 so-called NZYQ detainees offshore. It comes after the government confirmed it would deport hundreds of foreign-born...
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...
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....
Nauru leader says nation's future insured with growing trust fund
The Pacific Island Times
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August 28, 2025
Nauru President David Adeang said the tiny Pacific island nation’s future is secured with the Nauru Intergenerational Trust Fund, which is currently inching toward a net value of close to half a billion dollars. “Our government is determined not...
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...
Pacific Islands focus: health, environmental, security and geopolitical updates
Croakey Health Media
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August 28, 2025
Calls to tackle violence against women in the Pacific region, efforts to alleviate the impacts of extreme heat, new guidelines to assist in protection of whales, and concerns about deep sea mining are among the topics covered in the latest edition...