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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. 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.

ISBN: 9780670073580
Classification: Memoirs , Reportage & collected journalism , Armed conflict
Format: Paperback (216mm x 135mm x mm)
Pages: 320
Publish Date: 1-Jun-2009
Country of Publication: Australia

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Author Biography: Tony Maniaty
Tony Maniaty has published two acclaimed novels, The Children Must Dance and Smyrna (shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award), and a memoir, All Over the Shop.

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Shooting Balibo, CD-Audio (September 2009)
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Shooting Balibo, Paperback (June 2009)
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All over the Shop
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Power of Speech
Power of Speech, Paperback (December 1989)
Children Must Dance
Children Must Dance, Paperback (October 1984)
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