Jill Jolliffe

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Jill Jolliffe (* 1945 ) is an Australian journalist and author who has been reporting from East Timor since 1975 . In September 1975 she witnessed the first incursions by Indonesian troops into the then Portuguese colony and reported the deaths of five Western journalists, the Balibo Five, in October.

Life

As part of a delegation from the Student Union, Jolliffe visited what was then Portuguese Timor in March 1975 , which was being prepared for independence. There she met the young leaders of the independence movement.

Jolliffe lived in Portugal from 1978 and returned to Darwin in Australia in 1999 , from where she regularly travels to East Timor and reports from here. She is a correspondent for Reuters , The Guardian , The Sunday Times , The Age , Sydney Morning Herald and the BBC . In addition to East Timor, she reported from crisis areas in Angola and Western Sahara . She is prohibited from entering Indonesia .

On August 27, 2014, Jolliffe was awarded the Medal des Ordem de Timor-Leste by President Taur Matan Ruak in recognition of his commitment to the independence of East Timor.

Publications

  • East Timor: Nationalism and Colonialism Queensland: University of Queensland Press, (1978) OCLC 4833990
  • Timor, Terra Sagrenta (Timor: The Killing Fields) (1989)
  • Aviz: A Lisbon Story (1998)
  • Depois das lagrimas (After the Tears) (2000, ed.)
  • Cover-Up: The Inside Story of the Balibo Five (2001)
  • Balibo (2009)
  • Finding Santana (2011)

Television documentaries

  • The Pandora Trail (1992). About the European prostitution business
  • Blockade (1997). History of the East Timorese guerrilla fight
  • Foreign Correspondent special on the Balibo Five (1998) starring Australian television reporter Jonathan Holmes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jill Jolliffe: Cover-up: the inside story of the Balibo Five . Scribe Publications 2001, Melbourne.
  2. ^ Jill Jolliffe: Run for Your Life. 2014, limited preview in Google Book Search
  3. ^ Jill Jolliffe ( Memento August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Monograph at Scribe Publications website
  4. ↑ Decreto do Presidente da República n ° 25/2014 de 27 de Agosto , accessed on September 18, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Jolliffe, Jill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1945