Manus Island

The company interviewing Manus Island refugees for possible resettlement in the United States has told the detainees it will leave the island on Thursday.

The health clinic for Australia's immigration detainees on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island has reopened after it closed temporarily over the weekend.

An Australian court has ordered that a refugee held in Papua New Guinea not be returned to Manus Island until his medical condition is properly diagnosed.

Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the deal for the United States to accept Canberra's refugees held on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and Nauru is not a people swap.

Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton says the first asylum seekers from detention camps on Manus Island and Nauru should travel to the United States over the next few months.

An award winning cartoonist detained by Australia on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island has ended his 19 day hunger strike.

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister says Sri Lankan asylum seekers living in Australian-run camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island are welcome to return home.

A team of contractors has arrived on Australia's detention centre on Manus Island to begin interviews with refugees about resettlement in the United States.

A coroner's inquest into the death of an asylum seeker detained on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island has resumed in Australia.

Asylum seekers in the Australian detention centre on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island have been offered bribes to return to their countries of origin.

Police in Papua New Guinea have been removing Nepalese asylum seekers from Australia's detention centre on Manus Island.

The lawyer representing about 900 men detained on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island says he will apply for a court injunction to stop any of the detainees from being deported.

Australia's Human Rights Law Centre is joining calls for all refugees and asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and Nauru to be evacuated immediately and brought to Australia.

The Papua New Guinea government is finalising travel documents to deport 60 asylum seekers from the Australian run camp in Manus to their home countries.

The Manus Island MP Ronny Knight says Australia's deal with the US to resettle refugees needs to happen soon as bad feelings towards the refugees could blow up.

The US has committed to a deal with Australia to take refugees from Manus Island and Nauru - even as a ban against refugees, migrants and visitors from some Muslim-majority countries is enforced.

There is no word from the Australian government whether its deal with Washington to shift some of its refugees to the United States has collapsed.

The distress of refugees detained offshore by Australia has deepened with news US President Donald Trump will suspend refugee resettlement.