Open AccessREVIEW: Correcting the myth of East Timor
Author(s) -
Peter Cronau
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v10i2.815
Subject(s) - independence (probability theory) , project commissioning , government (linguistics) , publishing , mythology , political science , media studies , new guinea , law , history , public administration , sociology , ethnology , classics , statistics , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy
Review of Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East Timor, by Clinton FernandesBy trawling through the public record of the events of the time, Fernandes has amassed a convicing collection of little-known evidence showing just how reluctant the Australian Government was to assist the Timorese. He has used often obscure examples, passed-over by the media at the time, to show the true intent of the government.