East Timor
- Autumn of the patriarch: Four days with Ramos-Horta
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(East Timor, The Monthly) ...
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- April 2012 Editor's Note
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recipient has guided East Timor’s tumultuous democracy into its teens. Peter Robb’s magnificent essay ... the surf in red Speedos. Our other key April feature presents José Ramos-Horta , the East Timorese ...
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- Autumn of the Patriarch
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us to a big district meeting in Quelicai, in the high hill country east of Dili. Official Timor ... of the República Democrática de Timor-Leste arrived from New York via Singapore a few hours later. Seven is a great time to land in Dili. You leave Darwin in the black night, fly over the Timor Sea in indeterminate ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-16 17:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- No Liberation: Women in New Democracies. Hilary Charlesworth
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to replace authoritarian regimes. East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and last year's Arab Spring are examples ...
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- Gareth Evans & Ali Alatas
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‘ballast’. The Suharto regime’s occupation of East Timor continued to turn Australian stomachs, Indonesian ... 2011 - January 2012, Encounters, Ali Alatas, Australian Politics, East Timor, Gareth Evans, Indonesia, ... of the $100-billion treasure trove of oil and gas beneath the Timor Gap was a good place to start. Negotiations ...
The Monthly - Shane Maloney - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Elephant in the Room
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Delhi. The Asia–Pacific region has been stretched to accommodate India, now a member of the East Asia ... convert. When Britain announced its decision to withdraw its forces east of Suez, it seemed only ... territorial dispute, over mining rights in the Timor Sea, could not be less challenging to its sovereignty ...
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- The Search for the Least Bad Asylum Seeker Policy
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followed closely the collapse of its hopes for an East Timor internment camp. The Government’s East Timor ... that the kind of people smugglers involved in the contemporary movement of people from the Middle East ...
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- Hard Times
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than the people of Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Indonesia. The small island–trapped people of Nauru ... instead. Repainting a house does not solve overcrowding. At the Karguru camp, on the east side of Tennant ...
The Monthly - Paul Toohey - 2011-03-16 10:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Truth, Death & Diplomacy in East Timor
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Beside a hot and dusty airstrip at East Timor’s Baucau Airport I switched on my ancient ABC tape recorder ... of the youthful figures of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretilin). It was March 1975 and I had spent the previous ten days travelling with Horta through the rugged mountains of East Timor ...
The Monthly - Mark Aarons - 2011-01-14 15:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Lady Killers
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Security Institute at the University of Canberra. “We saw in Rwanda, in Somalia and in East Timor ... Abortion, ADF, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Climate Change, Clive Hamilton, East Timor, Euthanasia , Gender, Middle ... on the United States on September 11, the Kanimbla was sent to the Middle East and became a platform ...
The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-12-01 17:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Timor's Future
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to talk with two men who have played central roles in East Timor's turbulent history, and who may ... of East Timor's children die before they reach the age of five; 40% of those who live show visible ... the country. After independence, Xanana was elected as East Timor's first president (2002-07); Ramos-Horta ...
The Monthly - Mark Aarons - 2010-09-07 10:16 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment: Ten Years After Tampa
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out of any attempt to develop coherent policy. Perhaps some version of the East Timor ... (comment, comment) (August 2011, The Nation Reviewed, Asylum Seekers, East Timor, Federal Election, ... no solution in place. The Liberal government had approached newly independent and still-traumatised East ...
The Monthly - Peter Mares - 2011-09-19 11:05 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Prime Minister Gillard's first major speech: Moving Australia Forward
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the announcement of the 'East Timor solution'. Lowy Institute, July 2010 ...
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- Postcolonial Blues
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East Timor’s Lost Generation ... in 1991, in the East Timor capital of Dili , which ended in a massacre by the Indonesian army. ... borne by the resistance army FALINTIL (the Armed Forces for the National Liberation of East Timor ...
The Monthly - Jill Jolliffe - 2011-04-03 16:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Africa's last colony: Seeking freedom for Western Sahara. Jose Ramos-Horta
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2514001 In this speech, Jose Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, lends his ... East Timor before independence, Western Sahara is a nation with undoubted claims to independence, yet ... bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and has been ...
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- Uncovered
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and occupation of East Timor in a more telling historical context than that provided by Robert Connolly’s film Balibo and Luke Davies’ review of it (‘Cover Story’, August). East Timor was invaded by Indonesia ... fear was that China or Russia might invade East Timor and become a threat to the security ...
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- Comment
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of Soviet hegemony over the Baltic states and support for an Indonesian takeover of East Timor, are also ... China, Conservatism, East Timor, Energy, Gough Whitlam, Greece, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Malcolm ... as the person who had first inspired me, a kid from East Gippsland, to embrace politics and the Labor Party. My ...
The Monthly - Lindsay Tanner - 2011-06-30 15:50 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Sex Before Soccer
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undertaking a journey as illegal aliens in Australia. They are deported to East Timor in a fishing boat, ... of the award-winning drama East West 101 . It has also screened Australian history documentaries such as Immigrant ... as the mix has moved from Europe to Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Meanwhile, Australia is in stiff ...
The Monthly - Margaret Simons - 2011-06-02 13:07 - 3 comments - 0 attachments
- Spirit of Independence
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Special Forces, involved in the invasion of East Timor in 1975. TPN spokesman Jonah Wenda calls ... a dialogue, as occurred in East Timor, which would lead to their independence. Otherwise, he warns, West Papua ... They have all been watching the protests across the Middle East. “We are inspired by their bravery, and hope ...
The Monthly - William Lloyd-George - 2011-06-06 11:07 - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Shooting Balibo. Tony Maniaty
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In 1975, journalist Tony Maniaty flew into the Portuguese colony of East Timor looking for a war to film, ... Indonesian forces invaded. The generation-long nightmare of the East Timorese had begun. In his new book ...
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- Cover Story
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by Indonesian soldiers in East Timor in 1975. Shackleton went to East Timor immediately following ... a single witness, of the many who were brought from East Timor and Indonesia to give testimony, who could ... and head up the fledgling East Timor News Agency, he promises a cynical East that ETNA will be completely ...
The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2009-08-07 10:13 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Bruce Haigh
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and with authority concerning recent events in East Timor. However dismissing Indonesian ... in the internal affairs of East Timor. It would be surprising if they were not. One has ... an independent East Timor”. Nothing about the TNI or the way it operates has changed ...
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- Fields of Dreams
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country, Timor Leste, or East Timor, celebrated its third birthday on May 20 in a very muted way. What ... 10%, which sounds generous until you remember that, as Gusmao once said, “East Timor is giving 10% ... been to negotiate permanent boundaries. But we have responded positively to East Timor’s request ...
The Monthly - Tony Clifton - 2011-01-14 15:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Don Stokes
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in their commitment to sovereignty. At this time the ALP, represented on East Timor ... In this context, how does his support of Indonesian actions against the East Timorese ... of the East Timorese people as a reasonable reaction against unruly and disruptive ...
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- Comment
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in the early ’90s I could find out about East Timor just by going shopping. The struggling supermarket across ... of East Timor were being terrorised; that they were being executed, tortured, starved; that a lot of people he knew had disappeared; that people who went into hospital in East Timor did not come out. Many ...
The Monthly - Don Watson - 2011-01-14 16:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
