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Rohingya women and children being moved on a truck south of Yangon, Myanmar.
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Louise Chappell, UNSW; Elaine Pearson, UNSW
The issues that captured the world’s attention this year show the struggle to secure human rights is far from over.
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Grey nomads are champions of a radical type of portable urbanism as they travel to far-flung places like Lake Ballard in Western Australia.
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If they ask, tell them the truth.
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