Category: Features
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Deep in debt, can Nauru survive if Australia closes its detention centre?
The recent spate of scandals surrounding Nauru’s offshore detention centre demonstrate just how much both the Nauruan and Australian governments have riding on the lack of scrutiny into its inner workings. Footage of children with their lips crudely sewn together and eyewitness accounts of institutionalised sexual abuse have forced Immigration Minister Scott Morrison to announce an independent inquiry into the allegations — but…
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Anonymous fights jihadists, who fight states, who fight Anonymous
The announcement from hacker group Anonymous that it would be joining the war on terror was one of the more unexpected responses in the wake of the Paris shootings. Described in turns as both the internet’s hate machine and crusaders in the fight for freedom of information and expression, Anonymous was eager to demonstrate its commitment to…
Paul Millar 