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...after a relentless campaign by the victims' families and a series of limited investigations and inquiries, a coroner's inquest was finally held into the death of Peters. Sydney magistrate Dorelle Pinch heard evidence from numerous witnesses who had been in Balibo at the time and from Gough Whitlam, who was the Australian Prime Minister in 1975. Timorese witnesses testified that they had seen the men deliberately shot as they hid in a house in the village. One of them was stabbed after he was forced out of a room where he had been hiding. Their bodies were later "burned...
Arlene Ash Robert Clark Gilbert Doctorow James Flinsch Tony Jackson Jeremy Kagan Daniel Levine Nancy Murray John Pesando Kenneth Roemer Steven Varga-Golovcsenko Nicholas Whitlam Stephen Young
...Australia's approach to the world. The scale of his win, the gratitude of his party and his reputation as an autocrat put Rudd on track to be the most presidential PM Australia's seen. A keen interest in foreign affairs - sparked at age 14 when then-PM Gough Whitlam became the first Western leader to visit Beijing - suggests he'll keep a tight grip on that portfolio, too. Having copied most of his predecessor's policies, Rudd is likely to build on Howard's foreign policy as well, making changes of inflection rather than direction. "It's not going...
...last time Labor partied quite this hard was in 1972, when Gough Whitlam swept it back to power after 23 years in the federal sin bin. On Saturday night the Labor faithful were again in raptures as they cheered the party's new savior, Kevin Rudd, and the end of John Howard's long run as Prime Minister. Best keep the ecstasy to a minimum, Rudd jokingly advised a crowd of several hundred campaign workers in Brisbane: just "have a strong cup of tea." But the beer cans went on opening. "Eleven and a half yearsh," people kept saying, happily...
...time," had been Whitlam's message; time for change. Rudd updated the sentiment. "Today Australia has looked to the future," he told air-punching supporters and TV viewers around the country. "Today the Australian people have decided that we as a nation will move forward...