East Timor 1999:
Strategy, Perspectives, Plans in Australia
An afternoon of updates and discussion

Sunday, February 28, 1999
Glebe Neighbourhood Centre, Main Meeting Room, 160 St Johns Rd., Glebe
Sydney, Australia

Welcome Janet Parker, ASIET National Secretariat

1.00-2.00pm   East Timor: Issues in Australian Politics
(a) The struggle for asylum (20 minutes)
Speaker:  Liz Biok, East Timor Asylum Lawyer, Legal Aid Commission
(b) Australia and East Timor: approaches to the Senate Inquiry (20 mins)
Speaker: Jon Lamb, East Timor researcher, ASIET
(c)  Uncovering the truth on Balibo and Dili (20 minutes)
Speaker: Rodney Lewis, International Commission of Jurists
(An East Timorese present in Balibo will also attend)
2.00-3.00
Discussion

3.15-4.15    Strategic Perspectives for 1999
Chair: Janet Parker, ASIET National Secretariat
(a) Struggle and diplomacy: a Resistance perspective.
Speaker: representative of FRETILIN
(b) The Indonesia-East Timor Connection
Speaker: Max Lane, researcher on Indonesian politics, National Coordinator,
ASIET
(c) The Downer-ALP "shift": what does it mean
Speaker: Dr. Andrew McNaughton, Convenor, Australia East Timor Association
(AETA); member East Timor International Support Centre (ETISC)
4.15-6.00
Discussion
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for further information, please contact
ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH INDONESIA AND EAST TIMOR (ASIET)
96901032 or 96901977
Fax: 61-(0)2-96901381
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]       Webpage: http://www.peg.apc.org/~asiet
Free all kidnap victims of the military! No more military in politics!
Bring to justice all New Order violators of human rights!
Free Xanana Gusmao! Free Budiman Sujatmiko! Free Dita Sari!
Free all political prisoners in Indonesia and East Timor!
Unban the books of Pramoedya Ananta Toer!



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