Appeasing Jakarta; QE2 by John Birmingham historiography John Hirst overturns familiar conceptions

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Appeasing Jakarta; QE2 by John Birmingham historiography John Hirst overturns familiar conceptionsIn Appeasing Jakarta, John Birmingham takes apart the folly of twenty five years of Australian policy on East Timor. 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