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Most women who get breast cancer in East Timor die. Kirsty wants to change that

The Age, Melbourne
By Wendy Tuoh
March 13, 2020

The Conversation Hour: Kirsty Sword

Gusmão, Maria Bohan and Meg Mundell

 
ABC News-3 Aug 2019
Host: Jon Faine

Um dia com …. Kirsty Gusmão

(A day with … Kirsty Gusmão)

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                                                                                                                            (RTTL, 2012) - Portuguese & Tetun
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"A Woman of Independence"

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ISBN: 9781742624020
Format: eBook
Pub Date: 10/11/2007
Category: Biography & True Stories / Biography: general
Imprint: Macmillan Australia
Price: $16.99

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Feature Documentary Film (2012)

Using astonishing footage of the years-long resistance, director Alex Meillier presents a highly personal account of the courage needed to create a new democracy in modern times.

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About Me
I was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1966. As a student of the Italian and Indonesian languages at Melbourne University in the 1980's I became aware of the plight of the people of a small half-island called East Timor. A colony of Portugal for 500 years, East Timor or "Timor-Leste" was invaded by its huge neighbour, Indonesia, in 1975. It's a long story, but like many Australians and other citizens of the world, it made me angry and sad to learn that my own government aided and abetted that invasion in order to gain the upper hand in negotiating access to oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea, just north of Australia. At the cost of a quarter of a million Timorese lives. I decided to do something about it. And I still am today. 
 

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kirsty@alolafoundation.org

 

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