Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Benefit for East Timor Journalists

A September 24 benefit performance of the play "Bare Witness" aims to raise money to provide training for journalists in Asia's youngest democracy.  More »

The Joys and Sorrow of Indonesia and Timor Leste

By Peter Tukan

Peter Tukan was a participant at a three-month intensive training program facilitated by RMIT International (Melbourne, Australia) which was funded by a bilateral program between Indonesia and the Australian Government (IASTP). The Dart Centre Australasia took responsibility for the trauma and journalism component of the course, which ran over nearly three weeks.

The “Balibo Five”—30 Years Later

By Cait McMahon

Shirley Shackleton—whose husband, Australian journalist Greg Shackleton, was murdered in East Timor in 1975—has been asking the same question for 30 years: “I want to know what happened to my husband and his colleagues,” she says. “Why were these people murdered in cold blood?”

"An Obligation to Bear Witness"

Q & A With Janine di Giovanni

By Refqa Abu-Remaileh

Janine di Giovanni is one of European journalism's most experienced reporters of war and conflict, writing for The Times of London, Vanity Fair, National Geographic and other publications.

Exhibition: Creating Timor-Leste

In Melbourne, Australia, a photographic exhibition from an East Timorese photographer, Jorge de Araujo.