A philatelic reminder (above) of the colonial history of East Timor unearthed by Little Darwin in a North Queensland garage sale. One of the places named in the stamps appears to be Mount Salazar , apparently named after the Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar who ruled Portugal for 36 years ; in 1974 the military Carnation Revolution in Lisbon resulted in the Portuguese pulling out of East Timor , the Indonesian invasion and the long , bloody struggle for freedom by the Timorese who discovered they were bugged by the Australian government .
