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	Downer confident Nauru detention centre will stay. 22/06/2004. ABC News Online
		Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says he is confident Nauru will not close its immigration detention centre despite a change of government on the tiny Pacific island.
		Nauru will come to a grinding halt if they close the detention centre because for a start, they're paying for fuel and power, oil.
		Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says he is confident Nauru will not close its immigration detention centre despite a change of government.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200406/s1137871.htm (256 words)

	Meteoroloo.com :: Nauru - air nauru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Nauru is a special air nauru photos member of the Commonwealth nauru children and joined the United Nations as a member state in 1999.
		Nauru is a small phosphate rock island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands.
		Nauru's climate is extremely muggy year-round because of its proximity oceania nauru to the Equator.
	www.meteoroloo.com /Met-countries-m-r/Nauru.html (1242 words)

	Australia's detention of asylum seeker children amounts to torture - On Line Opinion - 6/8/2003
		Because of the damage inflicted, the deliberate detention of asylum seeker children equals torture, as defined by the Convention against Torture and outlawed by all statutes of national and international law.
		But systematic child neglect inside the detention centres outweighs the pain and suffering expected from any form of legal detention, and is therefore outside the spirit of the Convention against Torture.
		In detention centres of the Pacific Solution, isolation is even greater than in the remote centres of Australia.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=599 (2100 words)

	Nauru
		Nauru is a tiny phosphate rock island located in the South Pacific Ocean south of the Marshall Islands in Oceania.
		The Nauru detention centre is an asylum seeker detention and processing centre on the tiny island nation of Nauru.
		Nauru is one of 35 countries where Scouting exists (be it embryonic or widespread) but where there is no National Scout Organization which is yet a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.
	www.shortopedia.com /N/A/Nauru (941 words)

	nauru
		She praised the treatment so far by Nauru of those on a hunger strike and said Australia was anxious to meet all its commitments under the bilateral agreement covering the detention centre.
		He said the Nauru justice minister had refused to waive a 28-day delay to allow for a character background check to be made on the Australian lawyers intending to appear in their courts.
		She is the PR lady in Australia for the Republic of Nauru and, unlike the decrepit republic for which she speaks, she is a vision with her gleaming blonde hair, snazzy tailoring and killer shoes.
	www.gaiaguys.net /nauru.htm (16034 words)

	A flottilla of Hope to Nauru
		Nauru is the smallest republic in the world with a population of only 12,000.
		Nauru continues to deny entry to all lawyers, journalists and representatives of human rights groups as well as independent doctors and psychiatrists from assessing the health of the refugees.
		In the last week, three Australian lawyers were ordered off Nauru before they had a chance to appear in a court case challenging the legality of the island's detention centre for asylum seekers.
	www.safecom.org.au /flotilla.htm (2707 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Nauru loses contact with the world
		Nauru, an isolated speck in the southwest Pacific with a population of 12,000, is in a "critical situation", according to the last message received by the outside world.
		Nauru's telephone system collapsed on 8 January amid political chaos, and since then the island has only been contactable when ships equipped with satellite telephones made stops there, the AFP news agency reported.
		Nauru's diplomats in New Zealand confirmed to the agency that apart from these few calls, they had been unable to contact home for weeks.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2787401.stm (457 words)

	www.indymedia.org
		Nauru's detention centre was set up as part of Australia's so-called Pacific Solution for dealing with asylum seekers mainly arriving by sea.
		Nauru will come to a grinding halt if they close the detention centre because, for a start, they're paying for fuel and power (and) oil.
		The detention centre arrangement had "obviously helped Nauru", he said, warning that the island's financial system was now critical.
	www.indymedia.org /de/2004/06/854703.shtml (1026 words)

	chilout : children out of detention
		Nauru is one of the "Pacific Solution" destinations, covered by a memorandum of understanding the Australian Government signed with the Republic of Nauru, in December 2001.
		A court in Nauru is hearing a case that could collapse the Australian Government's use of the island nation as a detention centre for asylum seekers.
		Nauru developed the highest rate of diabetes in the world as a result of a lack of exercise - the phosphate mining work was done by visiting islander labourers - and a poor diet.
	www.chilout.org /information/nauru.html (5018 words)

	Australian Immigration Fact Sheet 82. Immigration Detention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		All families who enter immigration detention are referred to the minister for consideration of community detention arrangements within four weeks to six weeks of being detained.
		Immigration detention centres primarily accommodate people who have overstayed their visa, breached their visa conditions or have been refused entry at Australia's entry ports.
		Members are able to talk with staff, people in detention, the detainee representative committees and a wide range of external stakeholders to obtain first-hand information on the operations and environment at each centre and to hear their ideas and views on the immigration detention programme.
	www.immi.gov.au /media/fact-sheets/82detention.htm (1956 words)

	Nauru detention an outstanding success: PM. 14/10/2005. ABC News Online
		Nauru detention an outstanding success: PM Prime Minister John Howard says the Federal Government will keep its Nauru detention centre open, even though just two detainees are now likely to remain on the Pacific island.
		Thirteen will be released into the community after gaining refugee status and the other 12 will have their status assessed from detention centres on the mainland.
		"I went to Nauru myself in April and reported back saying I was concerned at that stage about the situation they were in and how untenable it was and I'm very happy to hear that this decision has been taken," he said.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200510/s1482536.htm (611 words)

	Inside story on detention camp: life is grim - smh.com.au
		Asylum seekers in the Nauru detention centre abandoned by authorities in December have no running water, say they are living on one meal a day and have not washed in a month, the first report from inside the camp claims.
		There are now just over 30, mainly Iraqi, asylum seekers in the abandoned centre known as State House, with most of the 150 who were there before Christmas having followed the IOM officers to the island's second camp.
		Asked about the situation on Nauru yesterday, a spokesman for the Immigration Minister, Philip Ruddock, said the "logic was sadly lacking in [asylum seekers] saying 'we want full services, but we will threaten you if you come in and try to provide it"'.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/01/28/1043534056653.html (624 words)

	Nauru - Republic of Nauru - Naoero, the Pleasant Island, Micronesia - South Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 2001 Nauru signed an agreement with Australia to accommodate more than 1000 asylum seekers on the island, in return for millions of dollars in aid.
		Premier institution of tertiary education in the Pacific region, jointly owned by the governments of twelve island countries, USP is an international centre of excellence for teaching, research and consulting on all aspects of Pacific life.
		The mining of phosphate on the island of Nauru, located in a remote corner of the Pacific Ocean, has devastated the island environmentally and has created financial, legal, and cultural problems for the islanders.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/nauru.htm (564 words)

	Independent Media Center \| www.indymedia.org \| ((( i )))
		Asylum seekers in the Nauru Detention camp run by Australian Immigration Authorities have entered their second week of a hunger strike, with 36 people now participating.
		Immigration officials have not been seen at the camp since the strike started, and Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone has refused responsibility saying they "are not Australia's problem", despite Australia establishing the detention camp on the Pacific nation of Nauru as part of its 'Pacific Solution' of refugee and migration control.
		Australia currently holds 94 children in Immigration Detention in Australia and 90 in Nauru.
	www.indymedia.org /en/2003/12/110228.shtml (243 words)

	HOPE! Beam me up, Scotty - NAURU's NEW GOVT could close detention centre : Melbourne Indymedia
		The outgoing President of Nauru is angry his government collapsed when one of his own cabinet ministers supported an opposition motion of no confidence.
		Outgoing Nauru President Rene Harris says he hopes the incoming government does not close the detention centre for asylum-seekers on the island.
		The Pacific island nation of Nauru has a new government which includes several advocates of political reform.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2004/06/72209.php (611 words)

	Australian DemocratsAustralian Democrats Press Releases
		A seven year old boy was assaulted with a baton by an officer at Woomera detention centre in 2002, according to a report tabled in the senate today.
		Democrats Leader, Senator Andrew Bartlett, who has visited every detention centre in Australia and met with Woomera detainees not long before the escapes, said their despair and desperation was overwhelming.
		At least 153 children are in detention centres in Australia and Nauru, according to figures released by A Just Australia, today.
	www.democrats.org.au /news/?press_id=3327 (378 words)

	Nauru Detention Centre map - Tagzania
		The Nauru detention centre is an asylum seeker detention and processing centre on the tiny island nation of Nauru.
		The detention centre on Nauru was based on a Statement of Principles, signed on 10 September 2001 by the President of Nauru, René Harris, and the Minister for Defence of Australia, at the time Peter Reith.
		The statement opened the way to establish a detention centre for up to 800 people and was accompanied by a pledge of $20 million in development activities.
	www.tagzania.com /item/48030 (284 words)

	Top20Nauru.com - Your Top20 Guide to Nauru!
		The first European to arrive was Captain John Fearn in 1798, but Nauru continued as an independent island society, reigned by a king (the most widely known being King Auweyida), until it was annexed by Germany in 1888 to German New Guinea.
		Nauru is a special member of the Commonwealth and joined the United Nations as a member state in 1999.
		Nauru's climate is extremely humid year-round because of its proximity to the Equator.
	top20nauru.com (1313 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Australia to remove asylum seekers from Nauru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		All but two of the remaining asylum seekers being held in detention in Nauru are to be brought to Australia.
		The immigration detention centre on Nauru was set up in 2001 and became a key part of Australia's so-called Pacific Solution of processing asylum seekers offshore.
		Mr Howard says the centre is an integral part of government policy.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1482019.htm (450 words)

	Nauru hungerstrike 10 December 2003 - to coincide with Human Rights Day 2003
		First of all I would like to say many many thanks to all of you on the behalf of all the Refugees of Nauru Detention Center and secondly I am writing the message of the Afghan refugees for Media, Radio, TV and All the newspapers in Australia.
		It is the message of the broken hearted Afghan refugees of Nauru Detention Centre that I am passing to you.
		It is a peaceful strike against the policy of the Australian Government and the injustice Behavior of DIMIA on refugees' cases.
	www.safecom.org.au /nauru-dec03.htm (2283 words)

	Nauru News
		THE Nauru Government has approved a plan to impose financial penalties on Australia if asylum seekers are again forced to languish on the tiny, near-bankrupt island for years.
		ELIZABETH JACKSON: The Government of Nauru says asylum seekers sent by Australia to the tiny Pacific island nation should be processed quickly and not be left languishing for years.
		A delegation from Nauru will visit South Australia's Baxter detention centre today, using it as a model for their own facilities.
	www.topix.net /world/nauru (781 words)

	Refugee Action Committee, Canberra - Report on Baxter Detention Centre Visits
		In 2002, upset by the stories I was hearing about our detention centres and by the government lies and cruelty over the Tampa and SIEV X, I began communicating with people in Curtin and Woomera detention centres.
		This friend is now out of detention and carries every day and night the extra burden of uncertainty about his future and whether he will be returned to face his torturers again in the future.
		In his years in detention he had never given trouble to the guards before but he had learnt how the system has to be played.
	www.refugeeaction.org /inside/baxter_visit.htm (10329 words)

	Detention centre vital for Nauru \| WORLD \| NEWS \| tvnz.co.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The bankrupt island of Nauru will continue hosting a controversial detention centre for Australia despite a change of government.
		Conditions at the detention centre seem luxurious for many Nauruans who can't afford to buy basic food.
		So far Nauru has received tens of millions of dollars for operating the centre - and it can't afford to lose that income.
	tvnz.co.nz /view/news_world_story_skin/457641?format=html (227 words)

	UK Indymedia - FLOTILLA OF HOPE CALLS FOR THE CLOSURE OF ALL DETENTION CENTRES
		The Flotillas of Hope are taking their protest to Nauru, setting sail in mid-May to arrive on 20 June 2004, UN World Refugee Day.
		Flotilla spokesperson, Stavros Georgopoulos, who initiated the campaign, explained, "We are sailing to Nauru to protest all of Australia's detention centres, and to call attention to the plight of the asylum seekers incarcerated in them."
		The Flotilla crew are hoping that all of the centres in will be closed prior to their scheduled departure date.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2004/02/285318.html (474 words)

	Nauru detention centre costs $2m per month. 12/02/2007. ABC News Online
		The Govt spends $24 million a year on the Nauru detention centre.
		The Federal Government is spending around $2 million per month to operate the immigration detention centre on Nauru.
		A Senate Estimates Committee has heard another immigration centre on Manus Island is in a "mothballed state" and is costing taxpayers $3 million per year.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200702/s1846036.htm (203 words)

	Refugee Action Committee, Canberra - Inside the detention centres
		Immigration detention profoundly undermines the parental role, rendering the parent impotent, unable to provide adequately for their child(ren)’s physical and emotional needs...
		Current immigration policy, in the form of prolonged detention of asylum seekers and the move to temporary visas for some, is resulting in harm to the mental health of already vulnerable children, adolescents and adults.
		See also Phillip Ruddock's reply claiming the article contains "errors of fact and distortions" and arguing that "detention is humane and is not designed to be punitive", but not denying (or even addressing) the article's main thesis, that detainees display serious psychological symptomsas a result of their imprisonment.
	www.refugeeaction.org /inside/inside.htm (2862 words)

	Government-sponsored child abuse at the Nauru detention centres - On Line Opinion - 7/8/2003
		A big sign, reading "welcome to our detention centre", was stretched across the gate, but my attention was immediately grabbed by the children.
		Four and five-year-old girls who have no memory of their father and no understanding of why they cannot go to him, when they know where he is. And the fathers in Australia, some of whom I have also met, being driven to the brink by this enforced separation.
		Even those who manage to stagger out the other side of the hoops and hurdles, such as the 40 people who are finally being allowed to apply to enter Australia, nearly two years after they first sought our help, are left traumatised - unsupported and uncertain of their future while Australia provides temporary "protection".
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=603 (1127 words)

	THAILAND GRAVE DEVELOPMENTS - KILLINGS AND OTHER ABUSES
		Court for "false imprisonment" on behalf of the 325 detainees taken to Nauru by Australian
		Nauru who have refused to return to their country of origin, and a new coalition has been
		Australia and Nauru are responsible for the welfare of the asylum seekers.
	www.thau.us /australia.htm (448 words)

	Scoop: Tampa Refugees On Hunger Strike In Nauru
		Children from the Tampa, held indefinitely at the Nauru Detention Centre.
		Tampa refugees on Hunger-strike in the Nauru Detention Centre.
		As I begin my nightly conversation with a detainee on Nauru, I look at the clock 11.43pm 24.12.2003 He tells me there are still 40 on the hunger strike, 11 of whom are in hospital.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0312/S00213.htm (1347 words)

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