It’s a story we all know well. Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl shot by the Taliban, the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a diligent student with an Oxford degree. But 13 years on she’s shaking off the narrative of “mythical heroine, virtuous and dutiful”.
Fifty years ago today five journalists working for Australian TV were murdered in a town called Balibo in what was then Portuguese Timor … they were there to expose the atrocities of the invading Indonesian forces. Filmmaker Robert Connolly immortalised them on film, and continues to rage against the cover-up of their deaths.
Despite all the theatrics and negative headlines emanating from the Trump administration, Australians are, apparently, still in favour of the alliance with America. Jared Mondschein from The US Studies Centre explaiins the contridiction in his latest survey.
