Australian Policy in East Timor

For a background history of Australia-Indonesia relations see Thayer Carlyle , “Australian Perceptions and Indonesian Reality”, 1994, http://coombs.anu.edu.au/coombshome.html

For details of how Australia changed its East Timor policy, see Nichterlein S. , “Australia: Courtier or Courtesan? The Timor Issue Revisited”, Australian Outlook, vol. 35, no. 1, April 1982, pp. 46–49

Asian Almanac, 1978, p. 8815

Hogue Cavan , “Australia Foreign Policy, 1999”, Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 54, no. 2, July 2000, p. 145

See John Howard's account in his address to the House of Representatives, Hansard, 21 September 1999

See Wray C. , Timor 1942, http://www.pactok.net.au/docs/ct/hforgethtml

Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statement in the Security Council, See UN Document S/PV.4043. 11 September 1999, p. 2

Security Council Resolution 1264 (1999) 15 September 1999

A poll published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 14 September 1999 (ahead of the UN Security Council resolution authorizing INTERFET) indicated that 72% of Australians supported the dispatch of peacekeeping troops to East Timor with 34% saying that Australia should intervene even without UN authorization. Sydney Morning Herald online, 14 September 1999. http://www.smh.com.au/news/9900/14/page/rageone 11, html

UN, Press Release SC/6727, 15 September 1999. For an overview of the UN's involvement in the question of East Timor, see William Maley, “The UN and East Timor”, Pacific Review 12, no. 1 (February 2000), pp. 63-76. James Cotton, “Against the Grain: The East Timor Intervention”, Survival, 43, no. 1 (Spring 2001)

Moore John , “Australia Accepts a Limited UN Assignment in East Timor”, International Herald Tribune, 23 September 1999

See John Howard Debate in the House of Representative, Hansard, 21 September

Ibid., p. 10029

See Commonwealth of Australia, The National Interest: White Paper on Foreign Affairs and Trade (Canberra: AGPS, 1997)

Speech at the National Press Club, Canberra, 1 December 1999, available from the DFAT website, www.dfat.gov.au

Goldworthy David , “The Rhetoric of Asia”, in Cotton James Ravenhill John (eds.), Seeking Asian Engagement: Australia in World Affairs 1991-1995 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press), pp. 27–28

Commonwealth of Australia, The National Interest: White Paper on Foreign Affairs and Trade (Canberra: AGPS, 1997)

See Prime Minister Howard's account in his address to the House of Representatives, Hansard, 21 September 1999

See for instance comment by Barker Geoffrey , Australian Financial Review, 17 September 1990

Brenchley Fred , “The Howard Defence Doctrine”, Bulletin, 21 September 1999, pp. 22–24. The term “deputy” was the journalists' rather than Howard's

Defence 2000: Our Future Defence Force (Canberra: Defence Publishing Service, 2000), pp. 42, 44

Quoted in Milner Anthony , “What is Left of Engagement with Asia”?, Australian Journal of International Affairs (Deakin, ACT), vol. 54, no. 1, April 2000, pp. 5–10. See also by the same author vol. 54, no. 2, July 2000

howard, Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates (CPD), House of Representatives (HR), 21 September 1999, p. 10031

Horta , Writing in Sydney Morning Herald, 9

See MacIntyre Andrew , “Asia Wariness Compromises Our Regional Role”, The Australian, 30 September 1999. See also the Asian Wall Street Journal's praise, quoted in the Canberra Times, 7 October 1999, p. 5

See Moore John (Minister for Defence), address of 28 September 1999, transcript

See Gray Joanne , Australian Financial Review, 20 November 1999