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Keywords: Timor-Leste

  • AUSTRALIA

    The oxygen that breathes life into peacemaking

    • Peter Garrett
    • 30 October 2006
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    Other than formal interaction between nations, the role of non-government organisations (NGOs) who provide the heavy lifting in aid relief and community building in war-torn regions is critical, as is the exercise of citizen's voices, and the involvement they have with the political processes of their country.

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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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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Echoes of war

    • Dawn Delaney
    • 11 May 2006

    Dawn Delaney examines the unwelcome legacy of violence against women following the conflict in East Timor.

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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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