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  • AUSTRALIA

    Background to blocked East Timor leadership challenge

    • Paul Cleary
    • 27 February 2007

    As the Prime Minister of East Timor, Mari Alkatiri, prepared a strategy that successfully blocked Friday's leadership vote, hanging on the wall of a conference room in his office is a satellite photo of Dili on fire...

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Long road back for Ramos Horta

    • Paul Cleary
    • 10 July 2006
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    In 2006, the East Timorese government’s inept handling of a dispute in the army involving soldiers from the western region of East Timor put the young nation on the brink of civil war. Now Jose Ramos Horta has been installed as Prime Minister, but will it make a difference?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Andrew Hamilton, Godfrey Moase
    • 04 July 2006

    Reviews of Justice, Jesus, and the Jews; The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia; Don’t Tell the Prime Minister; Unfinished Business: America and Cuba after the Cold War 1989–2001, and The Double Helix.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Deathly silence

    • Kel Dummett
    • 13 June 2006

     Kel Dummett finds that Australia is content to ignore the troubles of Biak, West Papua.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Fuelling the fire over Dili

    • Paul Cleary
    • 29 May 2006

    Seven years after the optimism born of independence, East Timor burns. Rival gangs fight in the streets, Australian soldiers try to keep the peace, and the people of Dili wait to see whether calm can be restored.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Guerrilla to President: Xanana Gusmão

    • Sara Niner
    • 22 May 2006

    This year’s May anniversary of independence for Timor Leste is Xanana Gusmão’s second as President and the country’s fifth as a free territory. Sara Niner looks at the current political machinations.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    The Australian wound

    • Mark Byrne
    • 18 May 2006

    Mark Byrne looks at the particular characteristics that make an Australian 'hero', and asks what it is about the interior of this country that moulds the interior of our collective suconscious in such a unique way.  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Hands on

    • Morag Fraser
    • 11 May 2006

    Morag Fraser meets recent travellers to East Timor.

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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

    Quick review

    • John James, Kathryn Page, Avril Hannah-Jones, Marcelle Mogg
    • 24 April 2006

    Reviews of the books Troubled Waters: Borders, Boundaries and Possession in the Timor Sea; Blush: Faces of Shame; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; and Moments of Truth.

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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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