Novak Djokovic spent a fourth day on Sunday among the unwilling occupants of Melbourne's Park Hotel. The tennis superstar awaited court proceedings on Monday that will determine whether he can defend ...

Australia violated the human rights of asylum seekers by detaining them on the remote Pacific island of Nauru, a UN panel has ruled, asking the country to pay compensation. The United Nations Human ...

CANBERRA, Australia, April 20 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has expressed disappointment at the Australian government's failure to look at alternatives to detention for asylum-seekers arriving by ...

KUPANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - On New Year's day, 45 asylum seekers in a ramshackle wooden boat slid ashore on a small island off the Australian city of Darwin. Four others had been swept overboard ...

On Thursday night, the Australian government passed new laws that expand the country’s offshore detention regime, further evade international obligations, and allow officials to pursue prison terms ...

GENEVA, Feb. 1 (UNHCR) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Friday welcomed the end of protests by asylum seekers in Australia's Woomera detention centre, but urged the government in ...

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia (AP) _ New Zealand and the Pacific island state of Nauru agreed Saturday to accept more than 400 asylum seekers stranded on a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean, breaking a six ...

SYDNEY, Australia — Australia and America will swap asylum seekers under a contentious scheme to deter migrants from seeking asylum in either country. Under the exchange scheme, asylum seekers will ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's highest court set a date on Thursday for a full hearing into how a group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers were detained at sea, a case that will test the government's ...

On April 26, 1976, a leaky fishing boat chugged into Darwin Harbour carrying five asylum seekers from South Vietnam. Their original destination had been Guam, but they changed course after a chance ...