Why would a 54 year-old woman make a decision to lock herself onto the train tracks of the world鈥檚 biggest coal port? Annette Schneider, an artist and farmer from Monaro in NSW, explained to 麻豆传媒 Weekly that her action on March 31 was a direct result of her fear of catastrophic climate change.
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Former workers from the Nauru detention centre say the Australian government has 鈥渢olerated the physical and sexual assault of children, and the sexual harassment and assault of vulnerable women in the centre for more than 17 months鈥.
In the early hours of the morning on April 7, the Malaysian parliament reintroduced powers of indefinite detention without trial in the form of a new Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). Such powers, previously under the Internal Security Act and Emergency Ordinance 鈥 which were repealed in 2012 under popular pressure 鈥 have a notorious history of being used by British colonial and, after independence, Malaysian authorities to detain political dissidents.
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