Jon Lamb

  • APCET meets in Manila

    APCET meets in ManilaThe Asia Pacific Coalition for East Timor (APCET) held a council meeting in Manila on February 25-26. APCET involves East Timor solidarity groups from within the Asia Pacific region, but also includes

  • No change on East Timor as oil starts to flow

    A number of major oil projects in the Timor Sea have recently been approved by the Howard government. On February 14, BHP Petroleum and partners (Petroz, Santos and Inpex Sahul Ltd.) received permission to develop the Elang-Kakatua oil

  • Tension in East Timor continues

    Over the past few weeks Indonesian military, security agents and pro-integration youth thugs from GARDIPAKSI have terrorised East Timorese youth in Dili and other regional centres. Scores of young Timorese have been rounded up, detained

  • Horta speaks to public meetings

    Horta speaks to public meetingsADELAIDE — East Timorese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos Horta addressed more than 500 people at a public meeting here on February 7. Ramos Horta was greeted with a standing

  • BHP caught polluting water at Whyalla

    ADELAIDE — Chemical sampling results released by Greenpeace on June 17 show that the waters surrounding BHP's Whyalla steelworks have levels of zinc and ammonia up to 320 times above Environment Protection Authority licence

  • Rally for Bosnia

    Rally for BosniaADELAIDE — More than 1500 Bosnians and their supporters marched and rallied here on August 5, calling for an end to the arms embargo and the ethnic genocide being carried out in their homeland.

  • Burma 'still a prison'

    Burma 'still a prison'No official announcement was made by SLORC that Aung San Suu Kyi's detention had ended, but word travelled fast around Rangoon, and her residence was quickly surrounded by supporters. Suu Kyi held meetings

  • Burmese students continue the fight for democracy

    Students in Burma have played a major role in the fight for human rights and democracy throughout the decades of turmoil that have racked Burmese politics. Students led the waves of anti-government protests which swept across Burma

  • International solidarity in Adelaide

    International solidarity in AdelaideADELAIDE — International solidarity activists here celebrated May Day at a dinner hosted by the Democratic Socialist Party on May 5. Sixty people gathered at the Resistance Centre to

  • Adelaide campaign for East Timor takes off

    Adelaide campaign for East Timor takes offADELAIDE — The campaign in support of a free East Timor is well and truly under way here, with several successful meetings and events over the past month. On April 7, Resistance

  • East Timorese refused asylum

    East Timorese refused asylumUp to 700 East Timorese who have applied for asylum in Australia face deportation because they entered Australia on tourist visas. Minister for immigration Senator Bolkus stated on April 17, during

  • Protest for East Timor

    Protest for East TimorADELAIDE — A noisy and vibrant crowd protested against military aid to Indonesia outside the Australian Defence Force Recruiting office here on March 17. The action was organised by Resistance, Aksi —