Tuesday, October 11, 2016

DARWIN RADIO LINK WITH DESPERATE DAYS IN EAST TIMOR

Currently circulating  far and  wide   is  a    series  of  historic  photographs   of   the  clandestine  resistance  radio    set  up  in   Darwin  which   kept   in   contact  with  East Timor after the  1975  Indonesian   invasion  , eventually  shut down by the  Australian government . Radio  National  has produced  a  special  report on  Radio  Maubere,  parts of  the radio equipment  now  held  in the National Film  and  Sound  Archive, Canberra .  
 
One of the  photos shows  the radio set  in the  flat of Darwin  activist  Rob  Wesley-Smith  who at one stage , with others, was arrested at  gunpoint  on a  boat and charged with  attempting   to  run  supplies   to  Fretilin.