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Australia Has Released Its Agreement to Send the NZYQ Cohort to Nauru. The Promise Against Onward Return Depends on a Thirty-Year Visa.
RNZ Pacific reported on 9 September 2026 that the Australian government had released the memorandum of understanding under which Nauru, which the United Nations now lists as Naoero, is to take people from the group known as the NZYQ cohort: non-citizens released after the High Court held in 2023 that Australia could not keep detaining people whose removal was not reasonably foreseeable. The memorandum was signed on 29 August 2025, when the Home Affairs minister, Tony Burke, met Nauru’s President, David Adeang, his cabinet and the Nauruan Parliament.
September 9, 2026 · Australia