SYDNEY — Pacific microstate Nauru is selling citizenship to fund its retreat from rising seas, President David Adeang told AFP, opening a contentious “golden passport” scheme as other ...

Citizenship of Nauru, an island nation spanning just 8 square miles in the southwest Pacific Ocean, can be yours for $105,000. The tiny, low-lying island has launched a “golden passport ...

Tony Burke on Sunday confirmed their visas have been cancelled and they would be flown to Nauru “as soon as possible”. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has confirmed three violent offenders ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor government announced last Sunday that it had struck a deal with the tiny remote Pacific country of Nauru, initially to take three immigration detainees.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said three individuals had already been granted Nauruan visas and had been detained awaiting removal, adding Australia had paid a "cost" to Nauru to facilitate the ...

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke signalled Nauru could take others from the cohort, saying the government there "had described these three visas as the first three". Three violent offenders who ...

As the tiny island nations of the Pacific come increasingly under fire from climate change, one – Nauru, the Micronesian nation located about 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) northeast of ...

Nauru President David Adeang, left, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shake hands at Parliament House in Canberra, Dec. 9, 2024. (Dominic GianniniAAP Image via AP) (Dominic Giannini ...

The Immigration Minister has pushed back on the ‘morality’ of the Nauru deal to take criminal detainees in a tense exchange with ABC host Sarah Ferguson. Mr Burke on Sunday announced the ...

Three former immigration detainees who were part of the NZYQ cohort will be resettled in Nauru. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced the deal with Nauru on Sunday, saying all three were ...