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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Shooting Balibo : Blood and Memory in East Timor
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'In 1975, journalist Tony Maniaty flew to the Portuguese colony of East Timor looking for a war to film. He found it at a dusty outpost called Balibo. Maniaty and his ABC News crew were shelled and five other television newsmen who followed were murdered by Indonesian troops.

Maniaty reported the Balibo Five story, faced death threats and fled before the Indonesian forces invaded. The only foreign journalist left in the country was executed in cold blood. The generation-long nightmare of the East Timorese had begun.

In Shooting Balibo he teams up with the cast and crew of the feature film Balibo, retraces his days of danger, and dines with Jose Ramos-Horta as the independence fighter-turned-President recovers from an assassination attempt.

But Maniaty's real purpose is to visit Balibo for the first time since 1975. When he steps into the burned-out house where his colleagues were slaughtered thirty-three years ago, past and present collide before his eyes.' (From the publisher's website.)

Notes

  • Dedication: Dedicated to the memory of two friends, Goinxet Boneparte and Cristovao Santos, both unfaliingly helpful and courteous in the difficult days of 1975.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2009 .
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      Extent: 310p.
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      • Published June 1st 2009 
      ISBN: 9780670073580 (pbk.)

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Works about this Work

East Timor : Questions of Intelligence Sylvia Lawson , 2012 single work essay
— Appears in: Demanding the Impossible : Seven Essays on Resistance 2012; (p. 103-128)
'On 2 December 2009, the film censorship authorities in Jakarta, backed by the Indonesian government, handed the Australian director Robert Connolly and his producers a splendid gift: They banned their film Balibo, which had been due for screening at the Jakarta Film Festival. The official statement was that this film, a part-fictional version of events that took place in East Timor thirty-four years ago, was 'negative propaganda', and that the Balibo case was 'closed'.' (Author's introduction, 103)
Balibo Not Taboo Tony Maniaty , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , October vol. 4 no. 9 2009; (p. 26-27)
Still Bleeding over Balibo Paul Toohey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , September vol. 4 no. 8 2009; (p. 8-9)

— Review of Shooting Balibo : Blood and Memory in East Timor Tony Maniaty , 2009 single work autobiography ; Cover-Up : The Inside Story of the Balibo Five Jill Jolliffe , 2001 single work biography ; Balibo David Williamson , Robert Connolly , 2008 single work film/TV
Well Read Cameron England , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 August 2009; (p. 26)

— Review of Cover-Up : The Inside Story of the Balibo Five Jill Jolliffe , 2001 single work biography ; Shooting Balibo : Blood and Memory in East Timor Tony Maniaty , 2009 single work autobiography
Tale of Balibo May for Ever Be Shrouded in Mystery Tony Maniaty , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 August 2009; (p. 14)
Problems in Balibo Gideon Haigh , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 June 2009; (p. 27)

— Review of Shooting Balibo : Blood and Memory in East Timor Tony Maniaty , 2009 single work autobiography
Looking Back in Anger Gideon Haigh , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 June 2009; (p. 31)

— Review of Shooting Balibo : Blood and Memory in East Timor Tony Maniaty , 2009 single work autobiography
Indon Blitz Jill Jolliffe , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 313 2009; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Shooting Balibo : Blood and Memory in East Timor Tony Maniaty , 2009 single work autobiography
Blood and Memory Craig Brittain , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , August no. 354 2009; (p. 39)

— Review of Shooting Balibo : Blood and Memory in East Timor Tony Maniaty , 2009 single work autobiography
Well Read Cameron England , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 August 2009; (p. 26)

— Review of Cover-Up : The Inside Story of the Balibo Five Jill Jolliffe , 2001 single work biography ; Shooting Balibo : Blood and Memory in East Timor Tony Maniaty , 2009 single work autobiography
Ghosts of Balibo Tom Hyland , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 31 May 2009; (p. 18)
The Balibo Book Shirley Shackleton , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Age , 2 June 2009; (p. 14)
Into the Heart of Darkness Nick Galvin , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 5 July 2009; (p. 10-11)
Tale of Balibo May for Ever Be Shrouded in Mystery Tony Maniaty , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 August 2009; (p. 14)
Balibo Not Taboo Tony Maniaty , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , October vol. 4 no. 9 2009; (p. 26-27)
Last amended 18 Jun 2020 10:43:04
Subjects:
  • Balibo David Williamson , Robert Connolly , 2008 single work film/TV
  • Balibo,
    c
    Timor-Leste,
    c
    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • 1975
  • 2000s
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