The First Group / Los Primeros (2010)
Cuba has been training over 900 medical students from Timor Leste. In September 2010, the first group of eighteen graduated as doctors.
The petroleum fund and development strategy in Timor Leste (2010)
The paper takes a political economy approach, which combines financial and developmental analysis with economic and institutional context. The aim of Part A is to clarify reform options proposed for the Fund, along with relevant considerations. The aim of Part […]
Farewell to Timor Leste: Cuban doctors return home (2010)
Interviews with two Cuban doctors who are returning home after two years living and teaching in Timor Leste.
Land reform in Timor Leste: Why the constitution is worth defending (2010)
International aid agencies have moved into the land debate in Timor Leste, at a time when controversy rages over proposed leases of large tracts of land to foreign biofuel companies and a proposed new land law. The leases, and their […]
Cuban health cooperation in Timor Leste and the Southwest Pacific (2010)
Cuban doctors and their large-scale medical training program came to Timor Leste in 2004, then to Kiribati, Nauru, Vanuatu, Tuvalu and the Solomon Islands over 2006-2008. By its size and focus, this ‘South-south’ program, more than any other, is transforming […]
The Pacific School of Medicine in Cuba (2009)
Interviews with students from Timor Leste, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Tuvalu and Nauru who are studying at the Pacific School of Medicine in Cuba.
Solidarity aid: The Cuba-Timor Leste health programme (2008)
This paper considers distinct views of ‘capacity building’ in health aid, using the example of the largest health aid programme in the Asia-Pacific region, the Cuba-Timor Leste health cooperation. By 2008 there were 300 Cuban health workers in Timor Leste, […]
The Doctors of Tomorrow / Los Medicos de Mañana (2008)
In 2003, Timor Leste and Cuba began a health cooperation program. By 2008, this included 300 Cuban health workers and 850 East Timorese students. This film is about those students.
Australia’s regional interventions: The antinomies of ‘good governance’ (2007)
This paper examines the antinomies of Australian ‘good governance’: the logical nonsense of regional coerced democracy and carefully tutored economic ‘best practice’. The tension between intervention and independence in the region – particularly with respect to the recent experience of Papua […]
Timor Leste: The second Australian intervention (2006)
Two stories are in circulation over the second Australian intervention in Timor Leste (East Timor). The first has it that the small, newly independent country, beset with leadership and ethnic divisions, and led by an arrogant and even despotic Prime […]