Protest over Timor
(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) MELBOURNE. Mr Robert Hawke, president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and of the Australian Labour Party, will lead an Australian unions’ protest delegation to Indonesia tomorrow. The Australian unionists will protest to Indonesian Government officials over Indonesian involvement in the East Timor war. They will also demand more information about the deaths of five Australian television journalists at Balibo, East Timor, last October. The Australian Journalists’ Association has demanded a new inquiry about the journalists’ fate from the Australian Government. A.J.A. officials h a ve supplied Mr Hawke with a comprehensive report compiled by the A.J.A. that conflicts with official Indonesian statements. Hughes claim An unemployed Irish farm labourer who says he is a cousin of Howard Hughes, is staking a claim to a share of the American recluse’s fortune. Mr Bobby Hughes, aged 54, claims his grandfather and Howard Hughes’s father were brothers. — London.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34131, 19 April 1976, Page 13
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