Fresh documents about the Somali refugee’s abrupt return to Nauru in October underline the need for a royal commission into the immigration department

The prime minister has said that he is paying ‘close attention’ to Manus and Nauru asylum seekers, but says ‘we’re not going to make policy changes on the run’. That pledge would be harder to make if he saw the suffering for himself

Allegations of torture in the Nauru detention centre have been met with familiar denials. As Abu Ghraib showed, the public will get the truth eventually

Kellie Tranter: Whatever the prime minister and Asio director-general say in public, the intelligence agency’s own reports show they know foreign wars are a real cause of radicalisation

Kellie Tranter: Mere days after the Coalition's election victory, the decision was made to stonewall reporters. The strategy had its first major test during the 'burned hands' reports in January