The government has announced that after more than five years, the last four refugee children on the island are being moved to the US for resettlement.
It claimed to have been "working quietly" to get children out of detention but most of the 122 kids removed from Nauru in the past six months were evacuated by court order or the threat of legal intervention.
The majority required medical attention.
"The Australian government has fought incredibly hard for those children not to be removed for medical treatment," the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre's Jana Favero said.
