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 ...
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This is the dirt, in the Timor-Leste border town of Balibo, were his father laid his last footprints. "When I came here, I got that feeling," he said. "That feeling you get in your throat, when you ...
PAULIE Stewart has a lot of stories to tell, and he is heading to Frankston Library this week as part of AusMusic Month for an afternoon of tales and music. Stewart, perhaps best known as frontman of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read. Some 50 years after five television newsmen including Kiwi Gary Cunningham were murdered by Indonesian soldiers, they are being ...