Lest we forget.
Standing in front of a "memorial" to the five journalists
killed in Balibo, Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik talks with
head of the ACTU, Bob Hawke, during his visit to Indonesia in April, 1976.
The deaths of the five men, Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham and Tony
Stewart of Channel Seven and Brian Peters and Malcolm Rennie of Channel Nine,
in Balibo on October 16, 1975, and the subsequent death of another journalist,
Roger East, six weeks later in Dili,
have been a source of embarrassment to the Indonesian and Australian
Governments for many years.
The debt we owe the six men will never be paid.
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