Podcasting Nimbin

17 Mb.  18 minutes 30 seconds Tetum with English translation. Only a few years old but with 6000 members the Federation has struggled for gains which have flowed through to the Public Service sector in general.

12.4 Mb 12 minutes 40 seconds A press conference held by General Secretary of Fretilin, Mari Alkatiri on Monday 16 after some violent incidents following the broadcast of the CNRT General Assembly on Sunday. The CNRT had decided to exclude Fretilin from government. Fretilin was prepared for the decision, but not the provocative and offensive language in which it was couched. Many Fretilin supporters felt insulted, and reacted angrily. The press conference was mainly in Tetum, but a short translation in English is posted below. *Fretilin secretary general calls for CNRT’s responsibility *Timornewsline, July 16, 2012 Fretilin Secretary-General Mari Alkatiri has called for Xanana Gusmao CNRT party to be responsible for violence broke out on Friday (15/7).According to him, CNRT party’s conference had caused the weekend’s violence due to some participants of the conference openly criticized Fretilin as the country’s historic party.“We are feeling very sad because some of the participants in the conference lack r

16.3 Mb. 16 minutes 30 secondns Remarks, comments and observations from some of the 160 Australian observers who came to see the East Timor elections, shortly before they return to Australia

Part 4 of 4 Charles Scheiner and Juvenal are researchers for the Lao Hamutuk ("Walking Together) NGO in Timor Leste. For many years Lao Hamatuk has been monitoring the governance of Timor Leste. Among other things, they look at how TL spends its oil revenues, which come from exporting the nonrenewable oil and gas reserves under the Timor Sea. Returns on investing the Petroleum Fund are only about one-tenth of the royalties and revenues paid by oil companies. As the oil and gas reserves are depleted, and oil revenues fall, investment returns will not be nearly enough to sustaining TL's state spending.At the time of the 2012 general elections they are particularly critical of the government of the past five years, and concerned that the incoming government review its spending priorities. The Lao Hamatuk website can be found at http://www.laohamutuk.org/

6.02 Mb.  8minutes Part three of three Charles Scheiner and Juvenal are researchers for the Lao Hamutuk ("Walking Together) NGO in Timor Leste. For many years Lao Hamatuk has been monitoring the governance of Timor Leste. Among other things, they look at how TL spends its oil revenues, which come from exporting the nonrenewable oil and gas reserves under the Timor Sea. Returns on investing the Petroleum Fund are only about one-tenth of the royalties and revenues paid by oil companies. As the oil and gas reserves are depleted, and oil revenues fall, investment returns will not be nearly enough to sustaining TL's state spending.At the time of the 2012 general elections they are particularly critical of the government of the past five years, and concerned that the incoming government review its spending priorities. The Lao Hamatuk website can be found at http://www.laohamutuk.org/

5.2 Mb.  5 minutes 30 seconds Part two of three Charles Scheiner and Juvenal are researchers for the Lao Hamutuk ("Walking Together) NGO in Timor Leste. For many years Lao Hamatuk has been monitoring the governance of Timor Leste. Among other things, they look at how TL spends its oil revenues, which come from exporting the nonrenewable oil and gas reserves under the Timor Sea. Returns on investing the Petroleum Fund are only about one-tenth of the royalties and revenues paid by oil companies. As the oil and gas reserves are depleted, and oil revenues fall, investment returns will not be nearly enough to sustaining TL's state spending. For more details, seehttp://laohamutuk.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-timor-leste-got-ten-billion-dollars.html . At the time of the 2012 general elections they are particularly critical of the government of the past five years, and concerned that the incoming government review its spending priorities. The Lao Hamatuk website can be found at http://www.laohamutuk.org/

Part one of three Charles Scheiner and Juvenal are researchers for the Lao Hamutuk ("Walking Together) NGO in Timor Leste. For many years Lao Hamatuk has been monitoring the governance of Timor Leste. Among other things, they look at how TL spends its oil revenues, which come from exporting the nonrenewable oil and gas reserves under the Timor Sea. Returns on investing the Petroleum Fund are only about one-tenth of the royalties and revenues paid by oil companies. As the oil and gas reserves are depleted, and oil revenues fall, investment returns will not be nearly enough to sustaining TL's state spending. For more details, seehttp://laohamutuk.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-timor-leste-got-ten-billion-dollars.html . At the time of the 2012 general elections they are particularly critical of the government of the past five years, and concerned that the incoming government review its spending priorities. The Lao Hamatuk website can be found at http://www.laohamutuk.org/

7.3 Mb Stereo 11 minutes 7 seconds Three days after the 2012 general election results it was still unclear how the new government would be formed. Neither of the two major parties had a clear majority. The governing CNRT could either form a coalition government with the two minor parties, or a government of National Unity with Fretilin. Speculation was rife. At this time Mari Alkatiri, the General Secretary of Fretilin granted an exclusive interview with an Australian media team, where he referred to the events of 2006 that led to the destabilisation of his government and forced his resignation from the position of Prime Minister.

7.5 Mb. 9 minutes 21 seconds Bob Boughton was in Timor Leste to observe the elections. At the time of the interview it was uncertain whether the former CNRT government (which obtained the highest vote, but not an absolute majority) would create a coalition with the Democratic Party (with several of its Ministers under investigation for corruption), or form a Government of National Unity with the Fretilin Party. While the interview was taking the place the CNRT was holding a televised Assembly. At the end of the day it recommended against forming a government with Fretilin. It is expected that Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao will ratify that decision,but not entirely certain; but a new government cannot be declared until the President, Tau Matan Ruak returns from a trip to Mozambique.

8Mb. 8 minutes. Bob Boughton, Associate Professor at the University of New England has been working on education programs in Timor Leste. He was impressed with the work of the Cuban literacy brigades and succeeded in bringing a Cuban educator to an Aboriginal community in Willcania. The pilot project has thus far proved to be eminently successful, and could be applied to other remote Aboriginal communities.

15.5 Mb stereo 21 minutes East Timor expert Jim Dunn discusses the election prospects of the Fretilin party next July. East Timorese politics is best understood by looking at the historic role of Fretilin as the political party which declared East Timor's independence in 1975, the event which triggered the illegal Indonesian invasion of 1975, and its role in the resistance movement against the Indonesian occupation through the 1970s and beyond. Jim details this history, drawing on his own experience and knowledge of the key figures involved.

10.3 Mb. mono 23 minutes 44 seconds Independent documentary film maker David Bradbury made a big impact on the English speaking world with his documentary about the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, released in 1984. The centrepiece of this powerful documentary was a meeting with the last surviving founding member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, Tomas Borge. When Tomas Borge died at the age of 81, a few hours before Mayday, 2012, David shared some of his memories of the man with community radio, and the story of how his documentary "Nicaragua, No Pasaran" came to be made. (More about David and his work can be found at his website http://frontlinefilms.com.au)

18.5 Mb Stereo CBR 192kbps. 14 minutes. Jose Texeira, Fretilin Parliamentarian and member of the Central Committee of Fretiliin comments on te upcoming East Timorese Elections. There are over a dozen candidates for the Presidential elections in East Timor coming up in March. Fretilin candidate, former resistance leader and Fretilin organiser looks like the strongest candidate to challenge the incumbent Jose Ramos Horta. But with a wide range of candidates, some with a strong personal following, a run off between Horta and Lu'Olo could be unpredictable.

15.2  25 minutes Toni Solo, (http://tortillaconsal.com) entrevista una dirigente del FNRP de Honduras y candidata del nuevo partido que se formo para representar al Frente. 

11.4 Mb. 17 minutes 10 seconds Toni Solo, host of http://tortillaconsal.com continues his analysis of the Nicaraguan elections and the landslide victory of the Sandinista Front looking at what this means for the region, and what it will mean for the Nicaraguan people in the future.

6:65Mb. 12 minutes 33seconds Toni Solo, host of http://tortillaconsal.com calls from Nicaragua to talk about the landslide electoral victory of the Sandinista Front. Much to the chagrin of the neo-liberal oriented opposition parties, the social programs of the Sandinista Front has one the respect of the people.

33Mb mono 30 minutes Corrina Grace is visiting Australia after five years working on aid projects in Guatemala. An engineer by profession she is passionate about appropriate technologies and sustainability. She emphasises that there is a high level of consciousness in the underprivileged communities of Guatemala of climate change and the Global financial crisis. It is no longer a topic for debate, but critical issues to which they are already taking steps to adapt. With her is a team of six young Guatemalans who are touring Australia to learn techniques and methods of sustainable technologies and permaculture. Corrina's web site can be found here: http://projectseres.org/

6.3Mb 256kbps. stereo. 13 minutes. Interview with student spokesperson for the Chilean student movement that is sending a shockwave through Latin American society with its determined resistance to the privatisation of the education system. Entrevista con un vocero de los estudiantes en resistiencia a la privitisacion de educacion en Chile, y America latina.

29 Mb. 128kbps. stereo. 31 mins 36 seconds. Victor Marillanca was one of the first wave of Latin American refugees arriving in Australia to escape the US promoted 'dirty wasr' in Latin America. He describes graphically his experience of the days of the coup against Salvador Allende in Chile on September 11 1973. A tireless worker on community radio in Australia he presents his view of the student uprising happening in Chile at this time, the role of the media, and how and why it is happening.