Melissa Johnston: Resilient Patriarchies

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Feb 26, 202600:43:44News & Politics

Timor Leste became independent from Indonesia in 2002, after 24 painful years of Indonesian occupation built on centuries of Portuguese colonisation. Both regimes were deeply violent and extractive, and as my guest today...

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