At the same time, popular interest in Indonesian affairs has slumped from the high of the 1970-80s, when Indonesian language classes spread through Australian schools. In 1996, almost 45,000 students ...
As a director he has made three memorable features, each charged with political and social conscience: The Bank (2001) and Three Dollars (2005, based on Elliot Perlman’s novel), which probed corporate ...
Walking in the same dirt his father did 50 years ago brews a stew of emotions for Evan Shackleton. This is the dirt, in the Timor-Leste border town of Balibo, where his father laid his last footprints ...
Luis Pereira’s breath catches in his throat, and he blinks back tears as he sits on his front porch, remembering the day he held the bodies of five Australian-based journalists in his bare hands 50 ...
Esteemed Australian journalist and foreign correspondent Matthew Carney has reflected on journalism and urged reporters to 'seek truth' at a special event in Timor-Leste, marking the 50th anniversary ...
On October 16, 1975, five journalists were killed in the remote Timorese town of Balibo. To this day, no one has been charged with their deaths. Known as the “Balibo Five”, the men were reporting on ...
It has been 50 years to the day since Paulie Stewart’s brother Tony, one of the Balibo Five journalists, was murdered and his body burned by Indonesian troops in Timor-Leste. Yet, despite Paulie’s ...
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