Tag: Timor-Leste politics
Helen Hill: for social justice and Timor-Leste’s independence
COMMENTARY: By Sandy Yule
When Melbourne-born Helen Hill, an outstanding social activist, scholar and academic, died on 7 May 2024 at the age of 79,...
How former Greens MP Keith Locke often became a voice for...
OBITUARY: By Philip Cass of Kaniva Tonga
A New Zealand politician and human rights activist with a strong connection to Tonga’s Democracy movement and other...
Timor-Leste’s opposition party wins election ‘punishing’ ruling Fretilin coalition
ABC Pacific Beat
Timor-Leste independence hero Xanana Gusmao has won the parliamentary election, but the country's first president may contest the count after his party...
Timor-Leste is at the polls, here’s how Australia can support its democracy
ANALYSIS: By Melissa Conley Tyler, The University of Melbourne and Andrea Fahey, Australian National University
Today is election day in Timor-Leste, when voters are deciding...
