East Timor – arena

In the most isolated areas of Timor-Leste, women are providing a powerful counterpoint to the apparent failure of independence, write Anna Trembath and Damian Grenfell

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Community development, NGO, Non government organisations, Timor Leste, women, Women's rights | Comments Off

Patriot Games

November 2, 2000 – 6:59 am

Paul James The ‘Ordinary Person’ is Now an Ironic Myth

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Andrew Jennings, Australian mythology, Chechnya, Falange, Francisco Franco, Indonesia, Iraq, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Kosovo, Mel Gibson, militia groups, myth-making, national liberation movements, Paul James, Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games, the Philippines | Comments Off

From Colony to Global Prize

June 2, 2000 – 4:38 pm

George Aditjondro Timor Loro Sa’e Under a New Wave of Economic Transformation

Posted in features | Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, agriculture, aid workers, annexation, Asia, Australian Defence Forces, banking, Cambodia, capitalism, cartel, Catholicism, coffee, coffee plantations, collaboration, colonialism, construction, corruption, deportation, East Timor independence, economy, energy management, environmental policy, environmentalists, fertility control techniques, forced deportation, genocide, George Aditjondro, grants, guerillas, health workers, hotels, human rights violations, humanitarian aid, indigenous people, Indonesia, inequality, information technology, International Monetary Fund (IMF), investment, Japan, land appropriation, loans, Malaysia, militia, mining, monopoly, nationalism, NGO, Nobel Prize, North Korea, Northern Territory, oil, oligopoly, peacekeeping, political elite, political prisoners, Portugal, post-colonial states, prostitution, protesters, reconstruction, referendum, self-determination, Singapore, South Korea, squatters, state property, Suharto, Taiwan, teachers, telecommunication, Timor, tourism, trade unions, United Nations (UN), United States, uranium, West Papua, Western Australia, World Bank, Xanana Gusmao | Comments Off

Mapping the Political Terrain

April 2, 2000 – 4:27 pm

George Aditjondro Post-Referendum Timor Loro Sa’e

Posted in features | Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, alienation, Ana Pessoa Pinto, Australian Defence Forces, Australian Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), authoritarianism, autocratic rule, border dispute, Brazil, capitalism, Catholicism, civil disobedience, civilian military, co-operatives, coffee, coffee growers, coffee plantations, colonialism, colonisation, customary laws, democracy, democratic state, East Timor independence, farms, feminist, food distribution, foreign aid agencies, foreign nationals, fund-raising, George Aditjondro, Ghana, guerilla warfare, Guinea-Konakry, human rights, human rights organisations, human rights violations, independence, Indonesia, Indonesian People’s Democratic Party (PRD), InterFET (International Forces for East Timor), international aid, international aid organisations, International Student Peace Prize, James Dunn, Java, Jose Alexandre Gusmao, Jose Ramos-Horta, Klaus Rohland, Left, liberal democracy, liberation movements, Major-General Peter Cosgrove, Manuel Pinto da Costa, Maria Olandina F.C. Alves-Cairo, Mario Carrascalao, Mario Viegas Carrascalao, Marxist-Leninist, massacre, Maubere, media, military, militia terror, minimum wage, Mozambique, Namibia, Nino Vieira, Norway, paramilitary, parliamentary elections, Philippines, political independence, Portugal, Protestants, reconstruction, referendum, refugees, relief, Richard Holbrooke, Sam Nujoma, sanitation, Sao Tome and Principe, security, Sergio Vieira de Mello, single-party states, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, socialism, Socialist International, South Africa, student resistance, Suharto, Sukarno, sustainability, Sydney, Taur Matan Ruak, terror, Timor, UN Temporary Authority of East Timor (UNTAET), United Nations, United States, women's shelter, World Bank, World Vision, Xanana Gusmao | Comments Off

Trepang Opening Night

February 2, 2000 – 2:52 pm

Lisa Palmer spends a night at the indigenous opera

Posted in against the current | Also tagged ceremonial dance, Darwin Festival, East Timor independence, first contact, Indigenous Australians, Indonesia, Lisa Palmer, Macassarese, opera, oral histories, song cycles, Timor, trade, yolngu | Comments Off

East Timor – Liturgy of the Free

December 2, 1999 – 7:14 am

Louise Byrne attends a mass with a difference at Melbourne’s St Patrick’s

Posted in features | Also tagged Abel Guterres, Alan Matheson, Bishop Hilton Deakin, Bob Santamaria, Burma, Caritas International, Catholicism, Communist Party of Australia, Democratic Labor Party, East Timor resistance, Edward Gough Whitlam, Herb Feith, Indonesia, Indonesian invasion, Joäo Pedr, Julie Barbosa, Labor Party, Leigh Hubbard, Louise Byrne, non-government organisations (NGO), Paddy Murphy, Patsy Thatcher, Red Cross, referendum, Timor, trade unions, United Nations | Comments Off

Long Live Shame

December 2, 1999 – 6:49 am

Building a republic must become a common project writes Christopher Scanlon

Posted in editorial | Also tagged apology, Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, Benedict Anderson, Christopher Scanlon, Doug White, East Timor independence, globalisation, Graeme Byrne, indigenous people, Indonesia, industrial & environmental exploitation, John Howard, Louise Byrne, militia violence, nationalism, Paul Keating, referendum, republic, Republicans, Robert Menzies, Snowy River Hydro-Electric Scheme, stolen generation, Timor | Comments Off

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