"Humanitarian Responses to the East Timor Crisis"

PETERSHAM TOWN HALL (Sydney) (Crystal Street, Petersham), Saturday 15th July 2006, (9am-4pm)

PETERSHAM TOWN HALL (Sydney) (Crystal Street, Petersham)

Saturday 15th July 2006, (9am-4pm)

PROGRAM PART 1 9.30am-11am "Roundtable discussion from NGOs in East Timor" with Mike Smith (Austcare), Peter Jennings (Apheda), James Isbister (Caritas Australia). Chair Carlos Pereira (Timor Australia Council). We have also invited to attend Ausaid, Red Cross, Oxfam and others. Comments from the floor welcome.

11am-11.20am Morning Tea

11.30am-12.30pm "The Future of East Timor" with H.E. Hernani Coelho Da Silva (Ambassador for T-L), Tim Anderson (Aidwatch), Phil Glendenning (Edmund Rice Centre), Justice John Dowd ( or spokesperson International Commission of Jurists), Chair Professor Stuart Rees (Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies,Sydney Uni)

12.30-1pm Lunch. THIS FORUM IS A FREE EVENT. WITH ALL CONCERNED WITH EAST TIMOR'S FUTURE URGED TO ATTEND . AETA welcomes donations towards the staging of this event. East Timor support organisations are welcome to bring information and displays for this event. Contact for confirmation of space.

PROGRAM PART 2

1pm-4pm BENEFIT CONCERT

Compere Jaslyn Hall (ABC Radio). Performers include East Timor Women's Cultural Dance Group, 'performance poet and ABC Radio personality ' Tug Dumbly, musicians Jeannie Lewis (diva) and Maurie Mulheron (writer of 'Four Strong Women'),the dynamic choir 'Voices From The Vacant Lot' and much more to be added. $20/$12 donation. Money raised will assist the ARTE MORIS/BIBI BULAK CULTURAL CENTRE in Dili and its work with internally displaced people in East Timor.

From 6pm A Special Dinner to Welcome the East Timor Ambassador to Sydney at a nearby Portuguese Restaurant. Cost-$25-$35.00 Limited numbers. RSVP essential to AETA via Dee on Mobile (0428) 755 218 or phone Jeff on (02)9519-4788.

For further information regarding July 15th event contact AETA c/- Jefferson Lee (02)95194788 or PO Box 703 Leichhardt, NSW 2040.. AETA thanks Marrickville Council and Leichhardt Council's "Friends of Maliana" for supporting this event.

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