Australia pays £1.2bn for tiny island migrant ‘penal colony’

Australia has struck a secret billion-pound deal to deport hundreds of foreign-born criminals to the tiny pacific island of Nauru. The atoll nation will become Australia’s own offshore penal colony for serious offenders including murders, paedophiles and robbers. Critics in Canberra say the arrangement will see the eight square-mile island become a “dumping ground”, and […]