On October 16, 1975, five journalists were killed in the remote Timorese town of Balibo. To this day, no one has been charged with their deaths. Known as the “Balibo Five”, the men were reporting on ...

The author of a book which exposes the Balibo five murders says she hopes the truth of her book is not lost when it becomes a major film. Darwin journalist Jill Jolliffe was in East Timor in 1975 when ...

A permanent memorial has been established in East Timor to honour the five Australian based newsmen who were murdered in Balibo 28 years ago. The Balibo Flag House was set up by a trust with the help ...

New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully must press Indonesia to accept responsibility for the execution of New Zealand journalist Gary Cunningham in 1975, Green Party MP Keith Locke said today.

The Howard government is trying to block the release of vital intelligence reports showing that the Indonesian military regime ordered the execution of five Australian-based newsmen in the lead up to ...

It was close to dawn on October 16, 1975, when journalists Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Tony Stewart, Brian Peters and Malcolm Rennie were killed in the border town of Balibo, East Timor. What ...

"In one fell swoop, I have lost my past, present and future and nobody really has put out a hand of compassion", wrote Shonny Dryden, mother of slain Australian journalist Greg Shackleton to ...

EXACTLY 40 years ago today, five journalists were stabbed and shot in cold blood by Indonesian Special Forces troops in Balibo — and they won’t be forgotten. Australians Greg Shackleton and Tony ...

According to Colonel Gatot Purwanto, members of "Team Susi", the squad responsible for the deaths, were waiting for orders from Jakarta about whether to arrest or execute the men when, in response to ...

(RSF/IFEX) – An inquest being held in the Sydney suburb of Glebe into the death of British cameraman Brian Peters, one of a group of five journalists working for Australian TV stations who were killed ...

Questions are being asked of the Australian Federal Police after it dropped a war crimes investigation into the deaths of five journalists - including a New Zealander - in Timor Leste almost 40 years ...