<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Our deepest condolence to </span><span>his family</span><span>, friends and salute to Timor's great comrade (Sr) David Scott. We can't thank him enough for his enormous contribution to Timor-Leste's history from occupation to independence. Timor is about to loose great heroes, but we are certainly won't or never forget all friends and comrades. <br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>'May your soul be resting in peace, maun David'<br></span></div><div> </div><div>Ismenio<br><br></div><div>-----<br>Labour and Education Attaché<br>Embassy of Timor-Leste in Australia<br>7 Beale Crescent, Deakin ACT, Australia 2600<br>Tel: (+61) 2 62604833 & Fax: (+61) 2 62324075</div><br><div>Mobile no: +61 (0)448508398
(Australia)<br> +670 7363745 (Timor-Leste)</div><br><div>Email: ismenio_nito@yahoo.com<br> tl_attache@yahoo.com<br><br> <div style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Australia-East Timor Association <aetamel@aetamel.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> AETA office <aetamel@aetamel.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, April 24, 2012 4:19 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> AETA E-MAILOUT: VALE DAVID SCOTT<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv1209770943"><div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;font-family:calibri, sans-serif;"><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;"><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;"><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;"><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span"
style="font-weight:normal;">Members of the Auastralia-East Timor Association will be saddened to hear</span></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;">that our founder, David Scott AO and Ordem de Timor-Leste, passed away on </span></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;">Sunday the 22nd of April.</span></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;"><br></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;">On the 7th of December 1975 David called an emergency meeting at the</span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span
class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;">Brotherhood of St Laurence in Brunswick St, Fitzroy in response to the </span></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;">full scale attack by Indonesian armed forces on Dili earlier that day. </span></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;"><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;">The large number of people present resolved to set up the Australia-East </span></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span"
style="font-weight:normal;">Timor Association.</span></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;"><br></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;">The funeral service will be held at Christ Church , South Yarra, cnr Punt and </span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;">Toorak Rds, South Yarra on Saturday the 28th of April commencing at 2 pm.</span></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;">Flowers welcome, but donations to the Brotherhood of St Laurence will be </span></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span"
style="font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;">appreciated.</span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;"><br></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;"><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;">The following obituary has been written by Richard Tanter who has played a very </span></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;">important role in our Association and in the East Timor solidarity movement generally. </span></span></div></span></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span"
style="font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;"><br></span></div></span></span></div></span></span></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">DAVID SCOTT</span></font></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">D</span></font></span><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span"
style="font-size:14px;">avid was well known in East Timor circles for this extraordinary commitment</span></font></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">to the cause of self-determination for the people of East Timor from<br>1975 onwards. He told some of that story in his 2005 book "Last Flight<br>Out of Dili: Memoirs of an Accidental Activist", and more in another<br>study of Australia and Timor Leste still to be published.<br><br>What may be less well-known in the wider Timor-Leste activist<br>community is the fact that this was but one of the fields where he<br>made an extraordinary contribution, both within Australia and beyond.<br><br></span></font></span><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span"
size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">In the 1950s and 1960s David built the Brotherhood of St. Laurence<br>into the most significant and progressive agency for social welfare<br>and social policy in Australia. He founded Community Aid Abroad, the<br>largest non-government aid agency and campaigner for global justice,<br>which later became Oxfam Australia. His original vision for CAA, which<br>was for many years a reality, was that it should be a genuinely<br>transnational network linking people living communities in Australia<br>with the people of communities in poorer countries, rather than a<br>simple matter of donating money.<br></span></font></span><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></font><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span"
size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">David was the chair of the Land Conservation Council of Victoria, and<br>the first Commissioner for the Environment in Victoria. He also served<br>on the Board of the State Electricity Commission, and in many other<br>public capacities. He also played a key role over many years in the<br>International Council on Social Welfare, and many comparable<br>Australian welfare bodies. He was also the founder and publisher of<br>the monthly magazine Australian Society.<br></span></font></span><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></font><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">One of David's great achievements was his role, together with
others,<br>in preventing a ghastly miscarriage of justice in the case of Robert<br>Peter Tait, who was convicted of a quite brutal murder in 1962, and<br>sentenced to death, even though he was manifestly insane. Together<br>with others, David led a huge public campaign against the government's<br>determination to hang Tait. David applied for an order that Tait be<br>psychiatrically assessed. The government refused, and David took the<br>case to the Supreme Court and subsequently the High Court in an<br>emergency hearing which brought down an injunction against Tait's<br>hanging after the government challenged the authority of the High<br>Court. Tait sentence was eventually commuted to life imprisonment, and<br>he died in a psychiatric facility. As a result of the public and legal<br>campaign, only one person was executed in Victoria subsequently.</span></font></span><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br><br></span></font><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">Those of us who worked closely with David, and who were privileged by<br>his friendship, valued his extraordinary combination of determination,<br>political skill, and generosity of spirit. Social and political<br>movements are never a matter of one individual, but there are times<br>when the role of one person is critical. It is probably fair to say<br>that without his central role in organising practical and political<br>support for the Fretilin external representatives immediately<br>following the invasion of East Timor in December 1975 and the years<br>following, and his vigorous campaigning in Australia, the United<br>States and at the United Nations, it is far less likely
that the<br>people of Timor Leste would have eventually gained their freedom from<br>Indonesian colonialism.<br></span></font></span><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></font><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">What marked out David's work in all these fields was a special kind of<br>political creativity, which had a great deal to do with the way he<br>worked with other people building organisations. My own life was<br>deeply affected by David in many ways that I can only begin to account<br>for. It is right to say that I was privileged with David's friendship<br>and trust and companionship in the darkest years of the movement to<br>support self-determination in East Timor, and in other endeavours.
He<br>had a great capacity to find people who could work with him on the<br>issues he felt deeply about, and to bring out the best in such people.<br></span></font></span><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></font><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">Richard Tanter<br>School of Social and Political Studies, University of Melbourne,<br>Senior Research Associate, Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability<br></span></font></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://nautilus.org/about/associates/richard-tanter/publications"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span"
style="font-size:14px;">http://nautilus.org/about/associates/richard-tanter/publications</span></font></span></a><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br><br>------------<br></span></font></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:bold;"><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">Some Links<br><br>The Tait case
mentioned above:<br></span></font></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.troy-simpson.com/website/taits-case.html"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">http://www.troy-simpson.com/website/taits-case.html</span></font></span></a><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br><br>Archive: Guide to the Timor papers of David Scott<br></span></font></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://timorarchives.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/scott-list_2006-0039_june2011.pdf"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">http://timorarchives.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/scott-list_2006-0039_june2011.pdf</span></font></span></a><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br><br>Re: David Scott's 2005 Timor book, "Last Flight Out of Dili: Memoirs<br>of an Accidental Activist".<br>Publisher's blurb: </span></font></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.plutoaustralia.com/p1/default.asp?pageId=349"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">http://www.plutoaustralia.com/p1/default.asp?pageId=349</span></font></span></a><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font
class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br>Clinton Fernandes review: </span></font></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/IyrGCB"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">http://bit.ly/IyrGCB</span></font></span></a><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br>John Tomlinson review: </span></font></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4128"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4128</span></font></span></a><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br><br>Suai Media Space item on David's receipt of Timor-Leste honours, 2011.<br></span></font></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/I4aRlV"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">http://bit.ly/I4aRlV</span></font></span></a><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span"
style="font-size:14px;"><br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------<br>John Waddingham<br>Archivist / Manager<br>Clearing House for Archival Records on Timor Inc.<br><br></span></font></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://timorarchives.wordpress.com/"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;">http://timorarchives.wordpress.com/</span></font></span></a><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"> </span></font></div></span></span></div><div><span class="yiv1209770943Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><span
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