Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East: : Quarterly Essay 2

by John Birmingham

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 the people of East Timor? John Birmingham has written a passionate narrative history of the East Timor question...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1863953868
• ISBN13: 9781863953863
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Quarterly Essay
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"