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Climate activists have received months-long sentences. Are tougher laws eroding Australians’ right to protest?
Brad Homewood describes his first steps into a maximum security facility, where he spent the first three weeks of a two-month jail sentence, as intimidating. “You’re in there with the worst of the worst,” he says. “There’s a lot of violence in there. I …