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Keywords: East Timor

  • AUSTRALIA

    Bearing witness

    • Kirsty Sangster
    • 08 May 2006

    Kirsty Sangster looks at the effectiveness of truth commissions.    

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Replacing neglect with engagement

    • John Langmore
    • 30 April 2006

    John Langmore reflects on the relationship between Australia and the United Nations

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Here I go on my way

    • Peter Pierce
    • 30 April 2006

    Luke Fraser reviews On the warpath: An anthology of Australian military travel, edited by Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The case for reconciliation

    • Kirsty Ruddock
    • 29 April 2006

    Is Australia’s intervention in the Solomon Islands healing the wounds of the tension?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Morning in East Timor

    • Morag Fraser
    • 27 April 2006

    Traces of Rome have become part of the scenery.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Just neighbours

    • Madeleine Byrne
    • 27 April 2006

    Madeleine Byrne explores the boundaries, both geographical and moral, between Australia and Timor-Leste.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Sumatran reflections

    • Madeleine Byrne
    • 25 April 2006

    John Mateer’s Semar’s Cave: An Indonesian Journal is best appreciated for its lyrical reflection and vivid detail, writes Madeleine Byrne.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Burma’s hidden diaspora

    • Ron Browning
    • 21 April 2006

    Hope emerges for the Karen people forced to flee Burma for refugee camps just over the border in Thailand.  

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Around the world and back again

    • Matthew Lamb
    • 21 April 2006

    Matthew Lamb on John Ralston Saul’s The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The year of living dangerously

    • Troy Bramston
    • 20 April 2006

    The final year of the Whitlam Government was tumultuous, but despite enormous obstacles and ultimate dismissal, the government implemented a visionary and far-reaching policy agenda that forever changed the face of Australia.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Redemption in East Timor

    • Sian Prior
    • 20 April 2006

    With the encouragement of an Australian nun, inmates at Becora Prison are finding ways out of the darkness of their crimes into the light of new hope.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Sara Niner

    • Sara Niner

    Dr Sara Niner is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Arts Faculty at Monash University. She is the editor of To Resist is to Win: the Autobiography of Xanana Gusmão with selected letters and speeches. Her new research into women and handcrafts in East Timor is available here and here.

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