Clearing House for Archival Records on Timor Inc. (CHART )| Timor Archives
Iha finál husi 1978, tempu ida ne’ebé mak militár Indonézia halo operasaun ho maka’as los, lider seniór rezisténsia Alarico Fernandes manda sai mensajen sekretu liuhusi rádiu husi Timor…| Timor Archives
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Timor-Leste and all those connected with supporting Timor’s dramatic and tragic path from Portuguese colony to independent nation mourn the death of outstanding journalist and author, Jill Jolliffe. Since early 1975, Jill’s tenacity in researching and reporting on Timor’s travails, always underwritten by a fierce belief in justice for the East Timorese, is widely acknowledged […]| Timor Archives
A legendary figure in Timor-Leste’s struggle for independence, the film-maker Max Stahl has died after his own long battle with illness. CHART’s chairperson, Prof. Michael Leach, reflects on Max’s contribution to, and place, in Timor-Leste’s history. Timor-Leste is in mourning with the news that Max Stahl, filmmaker and journalist, lost his long battle with cancer […]| Timor Archives
An international online symposium will mark the 30th anniversary of the infamous but history-changing 12 November 1991 Santa Cruz Massacre in Dili. We introduce here one Australian set of Santa Cruz-related documents and seek further contributions towards an online archives exhibition for the forthcoming symposium. An International Research Symposium about the 1991 Santa Cruz Massacre […]| Timor Archives
Kevin Sherlock’s death in Darwin in 2014 marked the end of his forty years of dedicated travelling, researching, collecting, translating and indexing published materials about Timor. He bequeathed his collection to the Charles Darwin University Library for long-term preservation and access. Dr Vannessa Hearman recently accessed the Sherlock collection for her current research on East […]| Timor Archives
There are now several online collections of Timor-Leste archival records for the years 1974-1999. We introduce here the most recent of the resources, David Webster’s Timor International Solidarity Archive. While still developing, it promises to be a ‘go-to’ platform for placing and accessing worldwide archives on Timor and an example for Timor-Leste archival institutions. The […]| Timor Archives
Since 2013, researcher and author Kim McGrath* has sought direct access to Australian government archives on 1970s Australia-Indonesia seabed boundary negotiations over the Timor Sea. While many files are now available for study, the National Archives refused access to a significant volume of material in some of those files. Australia’s Administrative Appeals Tribunal recently confirmed […]| Timor Archives
It is now twenty years since the historic 30 August 1999 United Nations-supervised ‘Popular Consultation’. Nearly 80% of East Timorese voted to reject Indonesian incorporation and confirmed their long-fought-for desire for independence. The year was tumultuous in many ways, not least through the depredations of Indonesian military-backed militias. These groups intimidated and murdered East Timorese […]| Timor Archives
The National Library of Australia has added to its marvellous Trove facility some text-searchable issues of the Portuguese Timor-era newspaper, A Voz de Timor. We briefly introduce this important …| Timor Archives
Recordings of radio communications and broadcasts from the Fretilin-led resistance in the early occupation years are rare historical primary-source materials. We present information on known surviv…| Timor Archives
Rob Wesley-Smith has been the most continuously identifiable public face of East Timor political activism in Darwin since 1974. CHART’s John Waddingham and Cecily Gilbert examined his Timor p…| Timor Archives
In late 1978, a time of greatly intensified Indonesian military operations, senior resistance leader Alarico Fernandes transmitted a series of secret coded messages from Timor under the codename &#…| Timor Archives
The still-sensitive historical topic of the 1978 ‘Operation Skylight’ has been a recent focus of public debate in Timor-Leste. We provide here a small sample of surviving records from …| Timor Archives