By Stuart Rees The Taliban forbid women to go out alone or attend universities, Israel confirms it is a racist, apartheid state, Rohingya refugees despair, executions continue in Iran, Russia is reducing Ukraine to ashes, the Myanmar military promote brutality, fascist-like Republicans shackle the US Congress, asylum seekers are punished by UK and Australian governments, […]
By Amy Blain The last day of 2019 started in pitch-blackness. It was 7 am on a mid-summer morning and the sky was jet black. Fires had travelled fast overnight, leaping 120km and had reached us at our holiday retreat, a gorgeous homestay in beautiful Bermagui. The fires were close enough that ash was falling