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Countries at loggerheads over the future of deep sea mining

Nations opposed to deep sea mineral mining and those in favour of exploiting the oceans’ depths butted heads in Jamaica on Wednesday

The Hindu

How do tech bros plan to ride out Armageddon? Living it up on their private islands

‘Effective altruist’ Sam Bankman-Fried supposedly wanted to buy the Pacific state of Nauru to build a doomsday bunker. Meanwhile, in the real world, quite a few other things need fixing, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Millions reportedly paid to Pacific MPs a drop in the ocean of detention expenses

Let’s look back on what Australian taxpayer dollars have helped achieve on Manus Island and Nauru.

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Bankman-Fried planned to buy Nauru and build apocalypse bunker – lawsuit

Lawsuit filed against FTX founder, 31, includes memo that detailed plans to purchase Pacific island in case world came to an end

The Guardian - US

Mining the seabed for clean-tech minerals could destroy ecosystems. Will it get the green light?

A little-known organisation is meeting this week in a conference centre in Jamaica. The rules the International Seabed Authority (ISA) are drafting could have immense impact.

The Conversation

Nauru prepares to mine deep seas in big climate controversy

Nauru sees rare earth metals as key to the green transition. But mining them could threaten vital marine ecosystems.

Al Jazeera

Future of deep-sea mining hangs in balance as opposition grows

Ireland and Sweden join countries calling for moratorium on extraction of metals from seabed as UN-backed authority prepares for crucial talks

The Guardian - UK

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After the Morrison government, we hoped for a new way on refugees. Instead it is a brutal business as usual

The last refugee is off Nauru, but Australians will still pay $350m a year to keep the island’s detention centre ready for future arrivals

The Guardian - AU

Australia brings its last refugee on the Pacific island of Nauru to its mainland

Australia's government, which announced earlier this month that it would be moving refugees off of Nauru, confirmed to media that it will pay $350 million annually to keep the Nauru facility open.

WEKU

Last refugee held on Nauru arrives in Australia

While offshore policy is being wound down, campaigners say ‘dark chapter’ will not end until last refugees leave PNG.

Al Jazeera

Australia to spend millions on empty refugee hub

Australia will continue funding its controversial offshore detention processing centre on the Pacific island of Nauru even as the facility’s remaining refugees leave, in an effort to dissuade people-smugglers from sending boats to the country, according to local media.

Bangkok Post

Australia to move last refugee from offshore processing on Nauru – but its cruelty and cost are not over

Despite the ostensible end to offshore processing on the Pacific island, the architecture and ‘inhuman’ policy remain

The Guardian - AU

Families seek UN help over Australia’s notorious refugee policies

Families forced apart by offshore scheme argue Australia has breached its international humanitarian obligations.

Al Jazeera

Refugee's hard road to Canberra and freedom

Zerghona Jawadi's extraordinary story of trial and triumph.

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The Guardian - AU

‘My wife thinks I have a beautiful life’: refugees face uncertain future as Australia clears Nauru

Ali has not told his family he has been on Nauru for 10 years. As Labor plans to empty the island of refugees by 30 June, he and others still wait to live freely

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Trump pleads not guilty, last asylum seekers may leave Nauru, crocodile serial killer

Former US president denies hoarding classified documents in dramatic court appearance; Queensland police hunt for reptile slayer

Crikey

Dismantling the myth that ‘stopping the boats’ is in children’s best interests

Saving children is a cornerstone of the stop the boats narrative — a patronising, nation-building story Australians are being told and sold.

Crikey

Bribery and corruption

The Morrison government paid a corrupt businessman millions of taxpayer dollars for offshore processing on Nauru, and Clare Nowland, the 95-year-old woman tasered by police, has died only hours after the officer allegedly involved was charged with three offences.

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The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: millions paid to corrupt Nauru businessman, Tina Turner dies, renewable zones delayed

Morrison government paid man convicted of bribing two Nauruan officials; renewable energy projects pushed back; tributes flow for 1980s rock legend

The Guardian - AU

Morrison government paid corrupt businessman millions for offshore processing on Nauru

Mozammil Gulamabbas Bhojani was convicted of bribing two Nauruan officials with more than $120,000

The Guardian - AU

Manus Island and Nauru: previously unseen testimony and AI imagery reveal ‘unimaginable’ part of Australian history

The witness statements were collected during more than 300 hours of interviews with refugees as part of a now discontinued pro bono class action

Al Jazeera

Lessons from Australia: UK’s migration law set to repeat mistakes

Activists, lawyers and refugees see the UK repeating the mistakes and abuses of Australia’s draconian asylum seeker law.

The Conversation

We provided health care for children in immigration detention. This is what we found

Australia’s immigration policies allow for indefinite locked detention, including for children and families. Detention is mandatory for people arriving without a valid visa – all those who arrived by boat between 2009 and 2013 were held in Immigration Detention Centres in Australia, or in Australian-contracted detention in Nauru or Papua…

The Conversation

'A toxic policy with little returns' – lessons for the UK-Rwanda deal from Australia and the US

One afternoon in mid-June, I sat with Ethan*, a local islander, at Nauru’s boat harbour. He was speaking about how life had changed in the country since the asylum deal with Australia was agreed. Just a few years before my arrival in 2016, the small Pacific island had once again…

The Conversation

UK moves to copy Australia's cruel asylum-seeker policy – and it will have the same heavy human toll

The United Kingdom’s Illegal Migration Bill, introduced in the House of Commons this week, will look very familiar to Australians.

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