Dimensions
120 x 250 x 10mm
This book constitutes a significant and sustained visual investigation into the international presence in East Timor immediately after the Independence ballot. What we mostly saw in our press and on TV was either the genuinely abject plight of the East Timorese on the one hand and, on the other, the heroic InterFET peacekeepers coming in to save the day.
Media presentation and publicity of the Australian presence was carefully orchestrated and milked for every patriotic possibility. Included is a five-part essay by political commentator Paul James, which discusses Australia's national identity through the prism of past and present military engagements.
