Appeasing Jakarta; QE2 by John Birmingham experimental-music and Ian Potter Museum of

and Ian Potter Museum of Art

The History Question:

or must the patterns of the past persist into the future

Shireen Morris

Combining ethical reflection and acute political analysis

Appeasing Jakarta; QE2 by John Birmingham experimental-music and Ian Potter Museum ofIn Appeasing Jakarta, John Birmingham takes apart the folly of twenty five years of Australian policy on East Timor. How did Gough Whitlam and Richard Woolcott in 1975 saddle this country with a policy that was bound to lead to the intervention of 1999? Why were shrewder voices ignored and why did we persist with an unworkable model? Where does this leave us with an Indonesia still dominated by the old power elites? And what was the tragedy like for