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In reply to the discussion: Life in Nauru detention: a dark, wretched Truman Show without the cameras [View all]

marble falls

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1. "Welcome to Nauru"
Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Original post)
Sat Aug 13, 2016, 07:21 AM
Aug 2016

Welcome to Nauru

The people of the tiny, potato-shaped Republic of Nauru were once among the world's richest. Formerly known as Pleasant Island (and now abbreviated, more prosaically, as RON), Nauru supplied Australia with abundant fertiliser for almost a century after vast phosphate deposits were discovered in 1900. By 2005, in an abrupt reversal of fortune, Nauru was a nearly failed state with an uncertain future, dependent on... Read More - https://www.lonelyplanet.com/nauru

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Life in Nauru detention: a dark, wretched Truman Show without the cameras [View all] friendly_iconoclast Aug 2016 OP
"Welcome to Nauru" marble falls Aug 2016 #1
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