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Balibo Five & 1975 Invasion

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February 6, 2007

Agence France Presse - February 6, 2007

Sydney – An Indonesian military commander who later became a government minister opened fire on a group of Australian-based journalists killed in East Timor in 1975, an inquest heard Tu

Daily Telegraph (Australia) - February 6, 2007

Ian McPhedran – At dawn on October 16, 1975, four young Australian-based journalists walked out of a house in Balibo, East Timor, with their arms above their heads.

Radio Australia - February 6, 2007

Reporter: Geoff Thompson

February 5, 2007

Radio Australia - February 5, 2007

Reporter: Emma Alberici

Sydney Morning Herald - February 5, 2007

Hamish McDonald – If Canberra's defence and foreign affairs establishment thought Maureen Tolfree was going to give up, this was another intelligence failure.

February 3, 2007

The Times (London) - February 3, 2007

Lucy Bannerman and Richard Lloyd Parry – In the three decades since Brian Peters died during Indonesia's secret invasion of East Timor, his sister Maureen Tolfree has been told countles

January 25, 2007

Daily Telegraph - January 25, 2007

Janet Fyfe-Yeomans – Indonesian troops were recorded by a previously unknown top secret Australian listening station discussing the execution of five young Australian journalists.

December 21, 2006

Daily Telegraph - December 21, 2006

Janet Fyfe-Yeomans – Crack SAS troops were poised to launch a secret mission into East Timor to rescue the five Australians three days before their deaths, but were ordered to stand dow

December 17, 2006

Melbourne Age - December 17, 2006

Tom Hyland – Two mysteries have shrouded the deaths of five Australia-based newsmen, killed while reporting the Indonesian attack on the East Timorese town of Balibo 31 years ago.

December 15, 2006

Australian Associated Press - December 15, 2006

Lisa Allan, Sydney – A NSW coroner says former intelligence workers may have important information about the deaths of the Balibo Five journalists in East Timor 30 years ago.

Herald Sun - December 15, 2006

Janet Fife-Yeomans – Former prime minister Gough Whitlam should be forced to finally tell the truth about what his government knew of the fate of five young Australians killed in East T

December 11, 2006

ABC News - December 11, 2006

East Timor activists are calling on Australian authorities to cooperate with an inquiry into the deaths of five journalists in Timor more than 30 years ago.

December 9, 2006

Daily Telegraph - December 9, 2006

Five young Australians were executed on the orders of Indonesian military chiefs, according to sensational evidence omitted from official government reports.

Australian Associated Press - December 9, 2006

Canberra – New evidence claiming five journalists were executed by Indonesian troops in 1975 while working for Australian media was hearsay and might not be accepted in court, says an I

Sydney Morning Herald - December 9, 2006

Hamish McDonald – A dramatic new lead into the deaths of five Australia-based newsmen in Balibo, East Timor, 31 years ago suggests they were captured and executed on the orders of Indon

February 2, 2006

Bristol Evening Post - February 2, 2006

A Foreign Office minister yesterday denied that the Government misled the relatives of a Bristol cameraman killed in East Timor.

December 21, 2005

Australian Associated Press - December 21, 2005

Sydney – The sister of one of the Balibo Five journalists shot dead in East Timor 30 years ago wants their remains exhumed for examination.

December 9, 2005

Australian Associated Press - December 9, 2005

Adam Gartrell – The sister of one of the Balibo Five journalists, shot dead in East Timor 30 years ago, wants former prime minister Gough Whitlam and several other high profile witnesse

December 1, 2005

Australian Associated Press - December 1, 2005

Sydney – The widow of one of five Australia-based journalists shot dead in East Timor in 1975 says she is not surprised by new documents revealing the Australian and British governments

November 30, 2005

The Times - November 30, 2005

Sean O'Neill – For 30 years Maureen Tolfree has suspected that the British Government lied to her about the death of her brother, Malcolm Rennie.

October 13, 2005

Australian Associated Press - October 13, 2005

Sydney – It's been 30 years since five Australia-based newsmen were gunned down in the East Timorese border town of Balibo.

October 12, 2005

The Mirror - October 12, 2005

The family of a Scots journalist brutally murdered in a war zone are demanding that Tony Blair helps them get justice – 30 years after his death.

September 19, 2005

Melbourne Age - September 19, 2005

Jill Jolliffe – A witness to the killing of five journalists in Balibo, East Timor, in 1975 has died in Dili months before a new inquiry by the NSW Coroner's Court.

June 23, 2005

Press Gazette (UK) - June 23, 2005

David Rose – Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is facing MPs' demands to help clear up the mystery surrounding the slaying of two British newsmen 30 years ago.

June 14, 2005

Australian Associated Press - June 14, 2005

An inquest will be held into the death of Balibo Five cameraman Brian Peters, killed 30 years ago in East Timor.

May 26, 2005

Melbourne Age - May 26, 2005

Stephen Senise – October 16 marks the 30th anniversary of the slaying of five Australian-based journalists during an Indonesian assault on the East Timorese border village of Balibo in

October 16, 2004

Australian Magazine - October 16, 2004

Bruce Loudon – At the time, the authorities dismissed it as a straightforward case of journalists tragically caught in the crossfire.

October 31, 2003

Melbourne Age - October 31, 2003

Jill Jolliffe – Today's pilgrimage to Balibo by the families of the five television reporters killed in an Indonesian attack on the East Timorese border town 28 years ago is a turning p

Daily Telegraph (Sydney) - October 31, 2003 Friday

Keith Suter – The largest loss of life ever sustained by the Australian media industry took place on October 16, 1975, at the East Timor village of Balibo.

October 21, 2002

Melbourne Age - October 21, 2002

Jill Jolliffe, Balibo – The Victorian Government will establish a medical clinic in the East Timor house used by five Australian-based journalists whom Indonesian invaders killed.

August 11, 2002

Scotland on Sunday - August 11, 2002

Camillo Fracassini – The suspected killers of a Scottish journalist murdered in East Timor 27 years ago have escaped a war crimes trial in the UK, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.

July 19, 2002

Sydney Morning Herald - July 19 2002

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – The British Government has told families of the two British journalists killed in Balibo, East Timor, in 1975 that it will soon release classified documents concer

February 14, 2002

Sydney Morning Herald - February 14, 2002

How much did the Australian Government know about plans for an attack by Indonesian forces which would result in the death of five Australian-based newsmen?

December 8, 2001

The Age - December 8, 2001

Jill Jolliffe – In 1996, I had been told about a man who claimed to have been at Balibo when the journalists died, as part of an Australian SAS force.

The Age - December 8, 2001

Jill Jolliffe – A former defence minister in the Whitlam government, Bill Morrison, has left open the possibility of an SAS operation to evacuate the Balibo Five from the border area of

November 5, 2001

The Australian - November 5, 2001

Robert Garran – Indonesian troops attacking the East Timorese town of Balibo in October 1975 had good reason not to want five Australian-based journalists to escape, according to a new

September 3, 2001

Canberra Times - September 3, 2001

Lincoln Wright – Two star witnesses behind the allegation that Defence knew beforehand of the murder of five Australian journalists at Balibo in 1975 now maintain they never saw an inte

February 22, 2001

Agence France Presse - February 22, 2001

Jakarta – A retired Indonesian general accused of killing five Australian-based journalists in East Timor in 1975 told a parliamentary hearing here Thursday that new witnesses in the ca

February 5, 2001

Sydney Morning Herald - February 5, 2001

Jill Jolliffe – The house in East Timor's second city, Baucau, stands derelict, its windows boarded up and a tap running endlessly inside.

November 18, 2000

Australian Associated Press - November 18, 2000

Catharine Munro Balibo, East Timor – Forensic investigators are looking for the remains of five Western journalists murdered here 25 years ago during Indonesia's occupation of East Timo

October 16, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - October 16, 2000

Hamish Mcdonald, Dili – A quarter century ago, just about the time most readers will open this newspaper at home or on the way to work, five young television newsmen from Sydney and Mel

September 20, 2000

Reuters - September 20, 2000 (abridged)

Andrea Hopkins, Canberra – Secret files released on Tuesday show the Australian government lied about its knowledge of the murder of five journalists in East Timor weeks before Indonesi

September 16, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - September 16, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – United Nations police in East Timor have opened a formal investigation into the 1975 killing of five Australian-based journalists at Balibo and say they may lay charge

September 13, 2000

The Melbourne Age - September 13, 2000

Tom Hayland – The depressing saga of Australian efforts to establish the fate of the five Australia-based TV reporters killed in Balibo illustrates the bind that Australian diplomats ha

Sydney Morning Herald - September 13, 2000

No check was made to see if any Australians were in the area before Indonesia's attack, Foreign Affairs documents show. Hamish McDonald reports.

September 12, 2000

ABC Radio - September 12, 2000

Compere: Well, supporters of East Timor have long interpreted Australia's actions as a betrayal on the broad international stage of an entire people, but there's also that narrower focu

July 20, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - July 20, 2000

Justice John Dowd, Sydney – A royal commission is needed into why the Whitlam Government turned a blind eye to the Balibo killings, writes Justice John Dowd.

July 13, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - July 13, 2000

Marian Wilkinson, Sydney – An Australian intelligence agency learned from an intercepted Indonesian Army radio message that Australian television crews were in danger and would be targe

April 28, 2000

Straits Times - April 28, 2000

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Former Information Minister Yunus Yosfiah has been accused of murdering five Western journalists in East Timor in 1975 by a new witness who gave evidence on

October 16, 1999

The Australian - October 16, 1999

Did ASIS (Australian Secret Intelligence Service) supply the bullets that killed the Balibo five? Brian Woodley investigates.