SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Wednesday it would enlist indigenous Aboriginal rangers to patrol its vast and remote northern coastline amid an influx of illegal fishing boats that have also ...

The number of failed asylum seekers remaining in the country has exploded, while homelessness in Australia is increasing at a ...

The United Nations committee has determined Australia breached its international legal obligations by allegedly exposing an ...

Australia failed to protect an Iranian asylum seeker from torture and ill-treatment during his long years in detention, a ...

The UN Committee against Torture found Wednesday that Australia violated the Convention against Torture by exposing an Iranian asylum seeker to torture and cruel treatment through offshore transfer ...

The number of failed asylum-seekers and international graduates trying to stay in Australia has exploded, new population data ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan delivered the national budget yesterday, he blamed the nation’s $17.8 billion deficit on the stubbornly high Australian dollar, softening company-tax revenue and a ...

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 ...