How many are still on Nauru?
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This graph shows the outcomes for people transferred under the current Labor Government (who came to power in May 2022, with the first transfers beginning in September 2023, after the last refugee transferred under the previous government had been flown out on 24 June 2023. On 30 September 2025 there were 91 people on Nauru (see Answer to Question on Notice SE25-353). (Note: previous monthly statistics ceased on 31 August 2024, and numbers of people on Nauru are now intermittent, and the following data is at 31 August 2025.)
The following graph shows the number of people on Nauru over time.
On 16 November 2023, the Guardian reported that there were 64 people left in PNG, following a previous report by UNHCR on 30 April 2023 that there were 84 people left in PNG (p. 112). When the arrangement with PNG ended in 31 December 2021, there were 106 people in PNG (including on person in PNG who was incarcerated). The Department no longer publishes data on the numbers left in PNG.
How many children have been born to people sent offshore? What has happened to them?
The above figures do not include children born to people transferred to a regional processing country. The next chart shows where these children are now.
