Saturday, May 5, 2012

JOLLIFFE FOR UNIVERSITY POST

War correspondent/author , Jill Jolliffe,is moving from Darwin to Macquarie University, Sydney , where she has a John Dunmore Lang Achievement Fellowship . Jill, well known for her involvement in the East Timor struggle from the very early days , will work on her autobiography while at the residential college. In March she delivered a talk WAR,PEACE and Truth-Telling at the college . Her book , Balibo, about the Balibo 5 , was made into a film starring Anthony LaPaglia as journalist Roger East . In 2006 she received Yale University's Globalist Journalist of the Year Award. Jill says she will eventually end up in Melbourne where she was a very active university student.