Peter Job - A Narrative of Denial: Australia and the Indonesian Violation of East Timor

A searing account of Australian diplomacy during one of the great crimes of the modern age. Peter Jobs inquest into the martyrdom of the East Timorese people merits close attention.

Clinton Fernandes

This book is very important for activists and academics from Timor-Leste, Australia, the United States and Indonesia to see how an international conspiracy has become a force to pressure nations fighting for their right to self-determination.

Hugo M. Fernandes, Executive Director of Centro Nacional Chega! IP, Dili, Timor-Leste

A NARRATIVE OF DENIAL

AUSTRALIA AND THE INDONESIAN VIOLATION OF EAST TIMOR

PETER JOB

MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS

An imprint of Melbourne University Publishing Limited

Level 1, 715 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia

www.mup.com.au

First published 2021

Text Peter Job, 2021

Design and typography Melbourne University Publishing Limited, 2021

This book is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 and subsequent amendments, no part may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means or process whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publishers.

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Text design and typesetting by Megan Ellis

Cover design by Philip Campbell Design

Cover images: Suharto image courtesy Getty Images, Photographer

Francois Lochon/Gamma-Rapho Collection; and the Fraser image courtesy

Getty Images, Photographer Hulton Deutsch/Corbis Historical Collection.

Printed in Australia by McPhersons Printing Group

9780522877601 (paperback)

9780522877618 (ebook)

To Brian Manning
19322013
Activist, friend and mentor