Distant Voices (79 page)

20
Alan Renouf,
The Frightened Country
, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1979, p. 279.

21
A Secret Country
, p. 267. The original source was from within the prime minister's office, as told to the late William Pinwill.

22
The
Sydney Morning Herald
, November 4, 1991. Evans made the claim in a book written with Bruce Grant,
Australia's Foreign
Relations in the World of the 1990s
, Melbourne University Press, 1991.

23
Private communication with the author.

24
Cited by Catherine Lumby, the
Sydney Morning Herald
, January 9, 1992.

25
Cited by Noam Chomsky, the
Guardian
, January 10, 1991.

26
Cited by Lumby.

27
Australian
Hansard
, November 1, 1989.

28
The
Sydney Morning Herald
, December 28, 1991.

29
BBC Shortwave Broadcasts Summary
, January 1992.

30
A Secret Country
, pp. 152, 153.

31
The
Guardian
, January 17, 1992.

32
David Day,
The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific War
, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1988, p. 287.

33
The
Sydney Morning Herald
, August 31, 1987.

34
Ibid., October 11, 1986.

35
Ibid., May 22, 1991.

36
Ibid., May 8, 1991.

37
Ibid.

38
Ibid., February 18, 1992.

39
Ibid., April 18, 1992.

40
Ibid., February 12, 1992.

41
Ibid., February 4, 1991.

42
Ibid., March 30, 1985.

43
The
Independent
, January 23, 1988.

44
Kevin Gilbert,
Because a White Man'll Never Do It
, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1973.

45
The
Sydney Morning Herald
, May 9, 1985.

46
The
Guardian
, July 17, 1993.

47
Ibid.

48
Ibid.

49
Ibid.

50
The Melbourne
Age
, January 29, 1994.

51
Cited in correspondence.

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Aarons, Mark 321

Abbey National Building Society 77, 78

Abbott, Helen 55

ABC
see
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

ABC News, American 442

‘Abel' (Timorese) 276–8

Abel, Andy 221

Aboriginal Legal Services 547

Aborigines:

atrocities against 525, 537–40, 546

and British nuclear tests 533

and land legislation 248, 533, 541, 542–3, 546–8

renaissance of 542, 543–6

ACOA
see
Australian Council for Overseas Aid

Adams, Patricia 211

Adie, Kate 153, 166

Aditjondro, Dr George 317–18, 321, 563 n4

advertising industry: and Government propaganda 67

AFFC
see
Australian Film and Finance Corporation

AFP
see
Agence France Presse

Africa:

famine and famine relief 70–1, 175–6, 224

effects of Gulf War on 173, 174

media coverage of 70–1, 72–3

Mussolini and 38

see also
Angola; Ethiopia; Somalia

African National Congress (ANC) 226

Africa Watch 223

Afzal, Mohammed 364

Age
(Melbourne newspaper) 247, 257, 541

Agence France Presse (AFP) 72, 73

‘Agio' (Timorese) 287

aid, foreign
see
Oxfam; World Bank

Aid for Trade Provisions (ATP) 301

Aidid, General Mohammed Farah 224, 225

Aileu, East Timor 284

Aird, Malcolm 141

Aitken, Ian 97

Aitken, Jonathan 303

Akashi, Yasushi 466, 483, 488

Al-Ashkar, Mahoud 509

al-Ashtal, Abdallah 177–8

Alatas, Ali 294, 295, 311, 315

Albert, Michael: on the Gulf War 3

‘Alberto' (Timorese) 287

Aldermaston weapons factory 60

Alderson, Andrew 437–8

Alexander, Malcolm 40–1, 45, 552 n40

al-Faysalwe, Sa'ud 180

Algeria 188

Al-Hissi, Mahmoud 509

Allan, Andy 447

Allason, Rupert 355

Allende, Salvador 73, 200, 228, 352

Allman, T. D. 430

Almeida, Ines 321

al-Nasiriyeh, Iraq: bombing of 3, 140, 141

Alton, Steve 321

America
see
United States of America

American Civil Liberties Union 344

American Sugar Corporation 381

Amhara warlords 516

Amnesty International 155, 183, 501, 514, 581 n169

on East Timor 236, 313, 318

Repression Trade UK Limited: How the UK Makes Torture and Death its Business
470

Amorin, Jose 303–4

ANC
see
African National Congress

Angola 113, 241

CIA intervention in 353

UN-monitored elections in 226, 490

Anthony Nolan Research Centre 361–2

Anti-Slavery Society 203

Antolini, Agostino 393, 394

Antolini, Bruno 393, 394–5, 397

Antolini, Diamanta 393, 394–5

Antolini, Mita 393, 394

AP
see
Associated Press

Apocalypse Now
(film) 89, 90

Apodeti
see
Timorese Popular Democratic Association

Apps, Ray 104–5

Aquino, Corazon 205, 497–9, 500–1

Arab states (
see specific countries
):

demonisation of 159

and Gulf War 178, 180

hostility to US 188

media coverage of 73

Archer, Jeffrey 166–7

Armfield, Hugh 247

Armfield, Jim 42, 45

Armitage, Sir Michael 184

arms industry 156

American 159, 163–4, 165, 180, 185, 188, 220, 223, 246–7, 254–5, 297–8, 299–300, 313, 383

British 16, 118, 119–20, 137–8, 172, 176, 184–5, 189–90, 258–9, 279, 301–4, 306–11, 319, 355, 423–4

French 258, 279

Arnhem Land: Aboriginal land claims 547

Arroya, J. P. 497–8

ASDT
see
Timorese Social Democratic Association

ASEAN
see
Association of South-East Asian Nations

Asian families in Britain, attacks against 33–5

Asia Watch: ‘Land Mines in Cambodia: The Coward's War' 467, 468, 469–70, 581 n169

Aspin, Les 129

Assad, Hafez, President of Syria: American deals with 179–80, 188

Associated Press (AP) 72, 73, 452, 488

Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) 259, 411, 415, 452

Asylum Bill (1991) 35, 36–7

Atauro Island 250, 259, 282, 318

Atkins, Chet 461, 463, 494

Atkins, Sharon 109–10

ATP
see
Aid for Trade Provisions

Attlee, Clement 52, 99, 108, 532

Aurora
(cruiser) 374

Australia:

Aboriginal issues
see
Aborigines

as an American colony 245, 257, 464, 524, 531, 532–6

and Asia 244, 261–2

as a British colony 530, 531–2

and Cambodia 427, 428, 463–4, 534–5

the CIA in 532, 533

cultural diversity of 523–4

and the Gulf War 535

and Hawke's Labor Party policies 11, 98–9, 525–7

and Indonesian invasion of East Timor 12, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 239, 243–5, 247–9, 251–2, 257–8, 260–2, 264, 265, 267, 269–70, 288–9, 311–17, 535

and Japanese logging industry 537

and Keating's economic measures 527–8, 536–7

Labor Party 525–6, 534, 541, 542

miners 375

nuclear test sites in 532–3

the Press 11–12, 79, 99, 526, 537, 538

Socialist Party 329

tax avoidance in 525–6, 527

unemployment in 98, 524–5, 527

involvement in Vietnam War 534

and First World War 529, 531

and Second World War 237–8, 243, 244, 283–4, 530, 533

see also following entries

Australian
(newspaper) 7, 315–16, 318

Australian Associated Press 269, 283

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) 261–2, 526

Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACOA) 250

Australian Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) 251

Australian Film and Finance Corporation (AFFC) 261

Ba'athists: Iraqi 137, 138, 162 Syrian 180

BAFTA
see
British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Baghdad: bombing of 132, 134, 153

deaths of children in 172

effect of sanctions on 172

Baker, James 128, 130, 173, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 188, 459, 508, 535

Baker, Kenneth 35, 36, 37, 38

Baley, Edwin P.:
McCarthy and the Press
66

Balibo, East Timor 266–9, 273

Balkans, the 213–19

Bangkok, Thailand:

American and British operations in
see
Thailand

Chulalongkorn University International People's Forum 211

1991 World Bank/IMF Conference held in 207–8, 209–10, 211

Bangkok Post
452

Bangladesh:

birth of 365–6

effect of Gulf War on 174

Kissinger's visit to 136

banks:

British, and foreign aid 203

see also
World Bank

Barre, Mohammed Siad 221, 223

Barwick, Garfield 563 n15

BASIC
see
British American Security Information Council

Basra, Iraq: bombing of 141, 152–4, 157, 166–7, 171

Battambang, Cambodia:

Hospital 472–3

Mines Advisory Group 492

Baucau, East Timor 285–9, 303

Bazoft, Farzad, murder of 138, 354–7, 439

BBC
see
British Broadcasting Corporation

Beatles, the 334

Beaver, Colonel Alan 468

bed-and-breakfast hotels 24, 67

Bedford Labour Party 103

Beecham, Jeremy 31

Belle Glade, USA 381

Bello, Walden 204

Belo, Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes 241, 285, 315

Belsen concentration camp 401

Bennis, Phyllis 181, 225–6

Bergoltz, Olga 373

Berlin, Isaiah 342

B52 bombers, use of 57, 132–3, 141, 157, 175, 228, 406

BHP
see
Broken Hill Proprietary Company

Binyan, Liu 181

Birmingham Six, the 100

Black, Conrad 11, 12

Blair, Tony 114, 119

Blake, William 88

Blakenham, Viscount 71

Blue Peter
(TV): Thatcher interview 414–15

Blues Brothers, The
(film) 363

Blunkett, David 119

Boardman, Dave 102–3

Bolton, Roger:
Death on the Rock and other stories
434–5

Bond, Alan 11, 525, 526

bone marrow transplants 360–2

Bosnia 213, 215–16, 217–18 US and 226–7

Boston Globe
167, 342–3

Botswana, effect of Gulf War on 174

Bottomley, Virginia 119

Boua, Chanthou 487, 493

Bousquet, Ben 101

Boutros-Ghali, Boutros 225, 226

Bowen, Jeremy 153

Boxer Rebellion, the 529

Boyd, Alan 572 n26

Boyle, Francis 188

Brabazon of Tara, Lord 415, 420

Bradbury, David 236

Bragg, Melvyn 437

Braithwaite, Mark 100

Branch, Julia 39–40

Brecht, Bertolt: quoted 503

Bretton Woods Charter (1947) 209

Brezhnev, Leonid 371

Brezhnev Doctrine 63

Brighton Labour Party: witchhunting in 103, 104–6

Bristol Cancer Help Centre 359, 360

Britain:

arms sales: to Gulf States 176; to Indonesia 16, 258–9, 279, 301–4, 306–11, 319; to Iraq 118, 137–8, 172, 176, 184–5, 355; to the Khmer Rouge 423–4,
see also
Cambodia; to Kuwait 119–20; to Saudi Arabia 189–90

and Cambodia
see under
Cambodia

death rates in 28;
see also
suicides (
below
)

defence spending 57–60, 97, 110, 120

and East Timor
see under
East Timor

education 27, 31, 57, 60, 98, 108, 114–15

and the Gulf War 133, 134, 135, 137, 143, 165–6, 175–6

homelessness in 23–6

housing estates of 27, 28, 29, 30–1

and Indonesia 301,
see also
arms sales (
above
)

and Iran 180

Labour Party
see
Labour Party, British

multiculturalism in 34, 120

Parliament 186–90

poverty in 16, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31–2, 67, 92, 117

racism in 33–8

secrets legislation in 10, 66–7, 84, 120

treatment of refugees 35, 36–7, 359

suicides 110–11

unemployment 27, 28–9, 31–2, 150

and United Nations 36–7, 186, 188, 227

see also following entries

British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA):

award to author 435, 437

British Aerospace:

deals with Indonesia 301, 302, 303

sales to Iraq 137

deal with Saudi Arabia 189–90

British American Security Information Council (BASIC):

report (1991) 57–8, 59

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC):

radio 14, 71, 86, 152, 157

television 2–3, 8, 9, 14, 69, 87, 119, 134, 141, 153, 159, 197–8, 220;
The Late Show
2;
Panorama
84, 119;
The Un-Americans
102;
The War Game
8

British Coal 52, 53, 54–5