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Title Dateline: The Last Frontier/Drug Crazed
Published Australia : SBS ONE, 2012
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Summary As hydro dams and logging change the landscape of Borneo, Dateline asks if locals are being treated fairly and questions the connection with Tasmania. We also investigates bath salts...the name given to a new drug driving its addicts mad and tearing apart families in the US.THE LAST FRONTIERTens of thousands of people in the wilderness of Malaysian Borneo are set to lose their homes, as a controversial plan to build a string of huge hydro dams gets under way. In the state of Sarawak, the Bakun Dam has already flooded an area the size of Singapore, displacing indigenous communities, some of whom say they've never received the full compensation they were promised. On Tuesday's Dateline, David O'Shea has a special investigation, looking at the relationship between the energy company behind the project and Hydro Tasmania's contract to work on it. David also examines links between the logging industry in Sarawak and Tasmania. In Sarawak, some communities say they've been intimidated and threatened in an attempt to force them off their land. And could Australia's wilderness also be under threat? Forestry Tasmania has a 20 year contract to supply the same logging company David is investigating in Malaysia. David meets the campaigners in Borneo and Tasmania, and hears the companies involved deny any wrongdoing.DRUG CRAZEDWhen a man in Miami chewed off a homeless man's face earlier this year, bath salts were blamed, and the previously little-known drug hit the headlines around the world. While it may sound innocuous, 'bath salts' is the name given to a mixture of synthetic chemicals, which are difficult to detect in drug tests and until recently could be sold legally in shops across the United States. But the catalogue of violent behaviour and mental instability among people addicted to them is growing. On Tuesday's Dateline, Nick Lazaredes meets families whose lives have been torn apart...some describe the change in behaviour and personality of their loved ones as like losing them completely. And it's a challenge too for the police...as one chemical composition is identified and outlawed, another emerges, and law enforcers are finding it difficult to keep up
Event Broadcast 2012-08-21 at 21:30:00
Notes Classification: NC
Subject Designer drugs -- Physiological effect.
Drug abuse.
Hydroelectric power plants -- Planning.
Indigenous peoples -- Crimes against.
Law enforcement.
United States.
Tasmania.
Malaysia -- Sarawak.
Form Streaming video
Author Hakim, Yalda, host
Lazaredes, Nick, reporter
O'Shea, David, reporter
Abetz, Eric, contributor
Adair, Roy, contributor
Brown, Bob, contributor
Buang, Idris, contributor
Burns, Jim, contributor
Rewcastle-Brown, Clare, contributor
Rolley, Evan, contributor
Russell, Skyler, contributor
Russell, Tiffany, contributor
Sanders, Richard, contributor
Sepawi, Hamid, contributor
Weber, Jenny, contributor