The Australian Federal Police (AFP) inquiry into the deaths of five Australian-based journalists at Balibo in East Timor in 1975 will not bring their killers to justice, and will merely prolong the anguish of the journalists’ families by raising unrealistic expectations that those responsible will be brought to justice. Oscar Isaac as José Ramos Horta…
The Minister for Defence Personnel, Greg Combet, has announced a review of the tasks which women can undertake in the defence forces, including their involvement in combat roles from which they are currently excluded, to improve recruitment and retention of women to the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The minister said: “A priority of the government…
Balibo is a dramatisation of the deaths of six journalists in East Timor in 1975. Five of the six died at Balibo, a small village about 8 km from the Indonesian border, during an Indonesian incursion into East Timor in mid-October 1975. They are known as the “Balibo Five” (see also the editorial column in…
Following the international financial crisis which has forced Latvia, Hungary, Romania, Iceland and Ukraine to receive full-scale bailouts by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this year, Ireland has become the latest European nation to feel the full impact of the collapse in its financial system. The economic crisis is now threatening to undermine the political…
