| Description |
xxxii, 414 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Last tot leave Dili -- Drama at the UN -- How Australia responded to the invasion -- After the invasion: inside east Timor and outside activism -- Deaths at Balibo and lost opportunities -- Whitlam's policy and flawed assumptions -- Australia's role: could we have prevented the invasion? -- Fraser to Hawke - appeasing the invader -- Seizure of the 'pirate' radio and 'drug smuggling' -- 1977: tensions in the support groups and in East Timor -- Meeting in Maputo -- No other country so hidden from view: 'Get someone in" -- Crisis in Maputo -- Keeping at it through the '80s and '90s -- The Dili massacre and more comprises -- The day that Victor died -- The campaign revives -- 1994: East Timor under occupation -- 1999: the final betrayal -- Anger in Australia: protests, union bans and generosity -- Reflections |
| Summary |
A new and different book about the world's newest nation. Scott was at the centre of East Timor's struggle for independence, and in Dili when the Indonesian's invaded in 1975, providing a refreshingly human dimension to the Timor story, rather than the geo-political perspectives of other works. An exciting and suspenseful read |
| Analysis |
East Timor |
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Voluntary workers |
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Political conditions |
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Social conditions |
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Autobiography |
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History |
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Scott, David |
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Timor-Leste - Foreign relations - Australia |
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Australia - Foreign relations - Timor-Leste |
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Volunteer workers in social service - Timor-Leste - Biography |
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Scott, David 1925- - Political activity |
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Political activists - Timor-Leste |
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Timor-Leste - Politics and government |
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Timor-Leste - History - Autonomy and independence movements |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 402-408 |
| Subject |
Scott, David, 1925- -- Political activity.
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Ramos-Horta, José.
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Scott, David, 1925-
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Political activists -- Timor-Leste.
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Volunteer workers in social service -- Timor-Leste -- Biography.
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Timor-Leste -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements.
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Timor-Leste -- Foreign relations -- Australia.
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Australia -- Foreign relations -- Timor-Leste.
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Timor-Leste -- Annexation to Indonesia.
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Dili (Timor-Leste) -- Social conditions.
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Timor-Leste -- History -- 20th century.
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Timor-Leste -- Social conditions.
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Timor-Leste -- Politics and government.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2006386723 |
| ISBN |
1864033762 : |
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