Slightly belated news, but last week I travelled to Timor-Leste to present my paper 'ASIO and FRETILIN: the ‘Missing Dimension’ in Indonesia’s annexation of East Timor, 1975-1976' at the New Research on Timor-Leste 2023 Research Conference.
Just saying, it was pretty cool.
@vhearman@evansmithhist@JonPiccini@MaclellanNic@drjpersian@ebonynilsson Ideally, they're not the only source! In my case, Timor has several activist histories to corroborate events. But what is largely missing from those activists histories is the way surveillance was impacting their causes.
@smh what a gross choice of wording?? He didn’t “out himself”!! He decided to come out. That’s it. It would be lovely if that decision was met with respect rather than this weird take on it?
Stop putting comedians on politics shows and leave it to serious people like Liz Truss whose plan for resolving the energy crisis is advise households to generate heat by huddling together and jacking it to pictures of Thatcher.