Naomi Klein tells Q&A: Australians should rise up in protest over Nauru detainees

Treatment of those held is 'tantamount to torture " I find that more shocking than they fact they were going to check papers on the streets of Melbourne'

Australians should take to the streets to protest over the treatment of refugees in Nauru that is "tantamount to torture" rather than just focus on the activities of the border force in Melbourne, Canadian author Naomi Klein has said.

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