Australia’s Refugees Held On Island Prison Camps Headed To US, World History Moment: Rabbit Doomsday In Australia, BBC: EU Sues Amazon Over Back Taxes, And Global Activism: Bookwallah Update
By Worldview StaffAustralia’s Refugees Held On Island Prison Camps Headed To US, World History Moment: Rabbit Doomsday In Australia, BBC: EU Sues Amazon Over Back Taxes, And Global Activism: Bookwallah Update
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On today’s show:
- To discuss Australia’s island refugee detention and their controversial resettlement to the U.S., we’re joined by Ian Rintoul, an activist and spokesman for the Refugee Action Coalition in Sydney.
- Historian John Schmidt talks about what Australia did with its sudden rabbit infestation in today’s World History Moment.
- The BBC’s Alexander Griffiths brings us a report on the European Union’s order that Amazon pay almost $300 million in back-taxes to Luxembourg.
- For our Global Activism segment, we’ll get an update on the group Bookwallah (“book peddler“ in Hindi) from founder and CEO Seena Jacob.