Jock Cheetham’s writing and films – FreeTheWorld@mac.com

WORLD’S TOUGHEST BIKE RACE?

Click through to smh.com.au below to see the Tour de Timor video ...
http://media.fairfax.com.au/?rid=53480

East Timor’s President, Jose Ramos-Horta, declared the inaugural Tour de Timor, with 288 riders starting the race, a great success.

THE DAWKINS DILEMMA

The militant atheists' cheerleader-in-chief is locked in a tribal position, writes JOCK CHEETHAM

AS PUBLISHED IN THE SUN-HERALD, SYDNEY, IN MARCH 2010

WORKING WITH THEIR HEARTS

Many Australians are going out of

their way to volunteer in East Timor,

writes Jock Cheetham. Click to read.

Sister Tess Ward meets East Timorese friends when she drops off some medicine to an elderly woman.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/working-with-their-hearts-20100714-10aop.html

FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD IN JULY 2010

East Timor is a beautiful country struggling to get on its feet after years of war and colonial occupation.

To see some short films on East Timor, in particular some of the hopeful signs I saw on my visit – see the Islands of Hope series on the East Timor Films page.

east timor films – islands of hope

They're all over the world. Shoes flung over wires. But why? This short film finds some people with theories and answers.

Shot in Sydney, Australia, around New Year's Day 2008.

SHOES ON A WIRE

See also carers.org.au

disability carers in john howard’s office

The Carers Alliance is a new Australian political party that ran for the Senate in the 2007 election. They stand for the interests of people with disabilities and their carers. 

In this video, carers take their concerns to the electoral office of the then prime minister, John Howard. During moving testimonies, they reveal a little of their lives caring for children with disabilities.

Jock Cheetham is an Australian journalist.

HOW TO BUY A BICYCLE

Tips on how to buy the right bike

Click here for PDF of my article from The Sydney Morning Herald, published in June 2008.

Australian journalists protested against the defamation case brought against the East Timorese journalist Jose Belo, below.  See their letter in PDF. The case has since been dropped.

INJUSTICE

Jose Belo at risk of jail for publishing investigative journalism

The Sydney Morning Herald series about a father who died at the hands of a violent group.

PART ONE:
ISAAC DINSDALE’S DEATH

www.smh.com.au/national/who-killed-isaac-dinsdale-a-mystery-from-the-citys-wild-side-20090817-enof.html

PART TWO:
THE INVESTIGATION

www.smh.com.au/national/police-hit-roadblock-in-dinsdale-case-20090818-ep3l.html

PART THREE:
THE COMMUNITY

www.smh.com.au/national/silence-stalks-the-killing-streets-20090819-eqkz.html

PART FOUR:
THE TRIAL

www.smh.com.au/national/robbed-of-his-life-and-robbed-of-his-justice-20090820-es3q.html

Isaac Dinsdale holds his son, Shannon, in this photo taken a few years before Dinsdale’s death in 2005.

WHO KILLED ISAAC DINSDALE?

Investigation of an unsolved crime