Nauru

Is the sun setting on the era of Bainimarama and FijiFirst?
Is the sun setting on the era of Bainimarama and FijiFirst?
The long-running row between the former Fiji government and the Suva-based University of the South Pacific (USP) has come back to haunt former Fiji prime minister Frank…
Never too late to get the kids off Nauru
Never too late to get the kids off Nauru
Over the past six years, we have witnessed the steady, if not accelerating, deterioration of the mental and physical health of refugee children on Nauru. Their suffering has been…
A new court for Nauru
A new court for Nauru
In January, as Nauru celebrated 50 years of independence, President Baron Waqa announced that his country would cease to use the High Court of Australia as its highest…
Nauru ABC ban: Australia damned by faint criticism
Nauru ABC ban: Australia damned by faint criticism
He fainted on me. Big bloke, my local guide on Nauru, who in the sunbaked heat took me Topside on the island to steal a look at the refugee camp among the scraggy rocks known as…
The lack of appeal in Nauru
The lack of appeal in Nauru
The decision to terminate a long-standing arrangement that saw the Australian High Court act as a partial appellate court for Nauru, as reported last week, has heightened…