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New Matilda, 29 November. Next week two indigenous Sarawakians will meet with the CEO of Hydro Tasmania to protest the Australian company’s involvement in a string of destructive hydroelectric dams in their state. In 1990, former Greens leader Bob Brown won the inaugural Goldman Environmental Prize — a $150,000 award for grassroots activism — for … Continue reading
CBX Magazine, November 2012 Ten broadcasters, from all over East Timor, were recently in Australia for a five-week training program put together by the Australian Pacific Journalism Centre and funded by AusAid through its Australian Leadership Awards program. When Joaquim de Fatima Coutinho first saw the equipment for the radio station he’d agreed to manage … Continue reading
3CR CRAM guide 2012: It’s 3.30am in Washington DC when Voice of West Papua hits the air in Melbourne, but the show’s founder, Herman Wainggai, rarely misses it. “I’m so excited about this program!’ he says. Herman, one of 43 West Papuan asylum seekers whose arrival in Australia, by outrigger canoe, in 2006 caused a … Continue reading
Canberra Times, 7 July 2001 As elections approach, East Timorese find that voting for independence was only a first step on the democratic road. On the Air North flight from Darwin a young Timorese returning for the first time since the independence plebiscite looks at a list of political parties. “This is my party,” he … Continue reading
Canberra Times,14 April 2001: Under the UN transitional administration, repairs have been made to water and electricity systems, schools have been reopened, courts, a defence force and a police force have been set up and a date has been set for the country’s first elections. But chronic and debilitating shortages raise questions about the efficacy … Continue reading
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