CHART East Timor Collection Rob Wesley-Smith Darwin PRELIMINARY FOLDER LIST Prepared by John Waddingham & Cecily Gilbert July 2015 Clearing House for Archival Records on Timor (Inc.) CMC Building, 69 Woodland Street, Essendon VIC 3040. Australia timorarchives.wordpress.com [email protected] ROB WESLEY-SMITH PRELIMINARY FOLDER LIST FOLDER TITLE CONTENT SUMMARY DATE RANGE [Maps] Early and late Portuguese maps of Timor (pre-1975). 1970 1975 [Maps / Posters] Portuguese era map; post 1975 Timor posters (multiple copies); aeronautical map of East 1971 1977 Timor area (1971, Australian produced); oil concessions map. Timor 1977 [Roman] 2 [Circled] 6 News clippings including Dawn case; RWS / CIET statements and correspondence; Timor 1974 1978 activity events & pamphlets; radio messages including many CIET Sydney roneos; Jim Dunn report on refugees in Portugal; early (1974) CIET pamphlet on Fretilin. CIET RWS and other correspondence (esp. on radio, including design of antennae); with Denis 1975 1978 Freney; many CIET NSW roneos and CIET Darwin leaflets. [Uncontained] Late 1975-early 1976 Handwritten notes early CIET Darwin materials, solidarity newsletters 1975 1976 e.g. TIS. Timor Info Service Set 1975 – 1978 1975 1978 East Timor 1985 Letters, magazines, News clippings; RWS correspondence (Chief Minister, 1980); range of Fretilin material, 1975 1975 1985 stuff – 1985; miscellaneous background material from international sources. Leaflet articles originals Various Darwin-sourced articles and commentary on Timor; includes Tomlinson/RWS article 1975 1994 titled “Timor: Time for re-assessment” Sept 1994. [ETNA / CIET] Predominantly multiples of East Timor News; also few early CIET NSW publications and 1975 1978 booklets. 2 folders [Australian Solidarity groups] Broad range of newsletters (e.g. Indon News Selections, TIS); early solidarity group stickers. 1975 1978 East Timor Report plus Etc - ACT Bill Tully newsletters from no. 1 1976 till 1979 1976 1979 Timor Papers News clippings; Helen Hill's Timor Story; East Timor News etc. 1976 1977 Timor aid (Arrests Sept 1976 [Roman] Press coverage, documents and correspondence re Dawn, plus RWS notes and 1976 1977 2) correspondence; also media reports on radio contact; (stray – D Scott's draft outline for book, 1994). Timor [Circled] 2 1976 RWS correspondence; news clippings largely NT News Mar-April 1976. 1976 1976 Timor [Circled] 3 1976 Australian solidarity publications, statements; many newsclippings (with rusty paperclips) for 1976 1976 April-Sep 1976. East Timor Aid, Trial etc. No. 1 Dawn case papers, transcripts, newsclippings and correspondence; early post-civil war 1976 1977 Fretilin statements; correspondence with David Scott, Cliff Morris, Denis Freney; CIET (NT) pamphlets. Page 1 Created by CHART Inc. July 2015 ROB WESLEY-SMITH PRELIMINARY FOLDER LIST Timor [Circled] 4 9/76 onwards Program of Fretilin (reproduced by CIET Darwin); Darwin activities including Waterside 1976 1976 Workers Union resolutions; CIET roneos, transcripts of radio messages; RWS correspondence with parliamentarians; news clippings. Regional articles of interest RWS statement after 'Dawn' arrest; newsclippings 1976 to 1993; correspondence with 1976 1993 Michele Turner; Shirley Shackleton MSS; UDT declaration 1986; background piece by Fatima Gusmao. Timor bibliography Background news article on Kevin Sherlock, and other notes. 1976 1980 [Darwin/Timor] Darwin group pamphlets etc. Many multiples; includes photos of Brian Manning with radio; 1976 1977 RWS notes on Dawn arrest. [Australian Solidarity group publications] Various issues from AETA (Melb.), CAA, Rosemary Atkin's Support the Liberal Party and 1976 1978 Timor pamphlet, Roger King. [Timor publications] Miscellaneous photocopied articles; includes multiple copies of Timor Story; Borja da Costa 1976 1978 verse; Franke's The Hidden war. [Timor varia] Range of items; Australian Hansard, United Nations document; ALP 1979 conference 1976 1979 resolution; issue of New Journalist including Roger East article by Cheryle Bagwell. [Solidarity – International] Range of items; Sue Nichterlein's A view from New York; directory of European and US 1976 1976 activists. [DRET / Fretilin] Includes Scott report on DRET office work, New York; Fretilin (Maputo) booklet; JR Horta 1976 1977 reports on New York office; Portuguese language report on conditions in Timor, Nov. 1977. Messages from E. Timor Rich collection of RWS transcripts and Freney roneos 1977-1978. 1977 1978 Timor 1977 [Roman] I [Circled] 5 Newsclippings; Hansard; CIET roneos; message transcripts (some original typescript); media 1977 1977 clippings including about the Dawn; rich collection of valuable RWS correspondence with Denis Freney. 1994 Press releases originals Mainly AFFET releases; some CNRM statements; lists of wounded in Dili demonstration July 1977 1994 1994. Also has 1977 CIET Darwin pamphlet (picture of Ken Fry sitting at radio). Important odds E.T. Waterhouse/Tribune letter to RWS re communications, Nov. 1978; Asia Youth Assembly 1977 1992 papers; statement for Nairobi conference 1985; Amnesty International items; newsclippings; RWS nomination and notes for Bicentenary Women's project; materials related to Dawn venture including correspondence from John Howard; RWS / ACET media releases E. T. Gazeteer Sherlock gazeteer of Portuguese Timor 1977. 1977 1977 Page 2 Created by CHART Inc. July 2015 ROB WESLEY-SMITH PRELIMINARY FOLDER LIST Articles etc for AFFET CNRM media releases and statement; considerable volume of AFFET media releases, 1977 1995 correspondence and other material; communications from solidarity groups; press item about RWS under arrest 7 Dec 1994 with photo. Number of Radio Maubere messages and other communications (from 1977); copy of International Court of Justice application Portugal vs Australia. [Media] Australian press items; some issues of Tribune; some Indonesian and Portuguese items. 2 1977 1978 folders. Timor Fund Chequebook, stamps and receipts for Timor Fund. 1977 1978 Timor 1978 [Roman] II [Circled] 8 News clippings by month (pasted up by Sam Kruger whom RWS paid); newsletters; 1978 1978 messages from East Timor radio communications; rich collection of RWS communications including about radio contact. Timor 1978 [Roman] I [Circled] 7 News clippings (Burn Dog); misc solidarity newsletters; RWS correspondence – AETA, 1978 1978 President Carter, The Timor Fund / CIET; letter from Dili translation Jan 1978. Handout Timor Material Early Multiple copies of various documents, leaflets dated 1978-80; CIET Darwin events; public 1978 1980 meeting with Abilio Araujo. Timor 1978 News clippings; copy of East Timor News 1978 1978 1978 ET 1978-79 News clippings, poetry; Fretilin communications (transcribed radio messages); RWS press 1978 1979 release 28 Nov 1978. 1978 ET RWS letter to Jose re radio contact; many newsclippings and ET News and other solidarity 1978 1978 publications; RWS correspondence – ABC. (Stray document: Human rights violations – ETISC booklet 1990s). Hadomi Copies of Hadomi newsletter, dates 1978 – 1983 (incomplete set). 1978 1983 Timor Info Service [Roman] 2 Issues 27-40 with some TIS Subscription Service material. 1978 1983 Indon News Selections Indon Action Group newsletter 1978 1981 [Articles Late 70s] Originals and multiple copies – Suter on international law 1978; New Journalist item 1978 1978 “Reporting the horror on our doorstep”; John Whitehall's The Timor tragedy, chap. 4 The UDT Party. [Timor poetry] Multiple copies of Xanana and RWS poems re Timor. 1978 1991 ['Burn Dog' protest] Original news clippings on RWS Burn Dog protest in 1978. 1978 1978 Timor 1979-80 Predominantly news clippings; some RWS correspondence with CAA, Attorney-General. 1979 1980 Page 3 Created by CHART Inc. July 2015 ROB WESLEY-SMITH PRELIMINARY FOLDER LIST 1979 RWS correspondence with Chief Minister, Indonesian Consul, Denis Freney; various 1979 1980 solidarity leaflets (Austn and international) and publications; copies of J Dunn's Parliamentary Library reports; Timor news coverage 1979. [Uncontained] RWS correspondence with Sam Kruger, David Scott – generally concerning famine 1979 ? conditions in ET. Timor 1979 II Embassy of Vietnam letter to RWS; extensive array of newsclippings (glued on very light 1979 1980 paper); RWS correspondence – D. Scott, ETNA, J. Dunn, Ken Fry, background papers from Dunn, Pat Walsh, Ken Fry, United Nations, Heinz Arndt, Australian Red Cross. Letter from Noam Chomsky to Martin Wesley-Smith, with associated papers. 1979 leaflets / Starvation in E. Timor / Multiple copies of: CIET leaflets some bi-lingual (Darwin and Sydney); NT News media 1979 1979 Indon-English stories; Christmas card produced by RWS. Timor 1979 [Roman] I Largely 1979 newsclippings pasted on sheets; sheaf of RWS correspondence – J. Dunn, B. 1979 1979 Tully, J. Waddingham, K. Fry, Bill Hayden, Lurdes Pires (when in Portugal), Ted Robertson, D. Freney (re Bill Bancroft). [Uncontained varia] ACET publicity for 1985 radio contact; sheaf of 1979 Activist conference papers including 1979 1992 resolutions and other papers including long Freney backgrounder; Tully's ? notes on Brian Manning re Darwin radio contact. Balibo Newspaper articles esp. Hamish McDonald item in National Times. 1979 1979 Media Early 80s Australian news clippings 1979-82. 1979 1982 Timor 85 Supporting leaflets etc. & Transcripts of 1985 radio messages; P Everingham letter to Peacock re Timor; fund-raising 1980 1985 transcripts appeal for Nairobi conference attendees; circular letter re future of Timor Information