Australia's Foreign Affairs Department today released a package of secret documents concerning East Timor - from July 1974 to late 1976. It shows our secret service knew of a provisional invasion plan in July '74, that Oz PM Whitlam (the left's hero here) not only condoned but very possibly encouraged Soeharto to go in (the latter says in the papers that his plans and resolve 'crystallised' during his September '74 talks with Whitlam), and that the Department knew three days in advance of the Indonesian battle plan - including the rather important bit about how the town of Balibo was a focus for the assault - which is where we had our journalists ensconced, and which is where they duly died three days later.
Just in case you're interested ... Rob.