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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A film about the Balibo Five was banned by Indonesian authorities. Balibo Five refers to Australia-based journalists who were allegedly murdered by Indonesian soldiers in East Timor in 1975. Global ...

The world preem of “Balibo” at the July 24 Melbourne International Film Festival opening night launched what has become a very political event by Oz standards. Cast, crew, local pollies and Timor’s ...

Walking in the same dirt his father did 50 years ago brews a stew of emotions for Evan Shackleton. This is the dirt, in the Timor-Leste border town of Balibo, where his father laid his last footprints ...

Balibo has been nominated for 14 gongs at the upcoming Australian Film Institute awards ceremony. The Aussie film, which tells the story of a group of journalists who were killed in East Timor, has ...

The task is simple: walk or die.

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 19 December 2006 IFJ press release: “Time for justice” 30 years after deaths of Balibo five journalists in East Timor The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) ...

Luis Pereira’s breath catches in his throat, and he blinks back tears as he sits on his front porch, remembering the day he held the bodies of five Australian-based journalists in his bare hands 50 ...