<html><head></head><body style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left; "><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; ">Australia-East Timor Association</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left; "><b class="" style="color: rgb(255, 38, 0); font-size: 18px; ">Independence Day Dinner 2016</b><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; "><b class=""> </b></span></p><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">6.00 pm for 6.30 pm, Monday 28<span class="" style="font-size: 12px; "><sup class="">th</sup></span> November</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><b class="">Angliss Restaurant</b></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">550 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">near corner of Spencer St</div><p class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "> </p><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">2 course meal </div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Drinks from the Bar (<b class="">not</b> BYO)</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">$40, (concession $30)</div><p class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "> </p><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><b class="">Guest Speakers: Dr Helen Hill</b></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Community Development,</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">National University of Timor Lorosa'e (UNTL)</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><i><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Development challenges for Timor-Leste in the coming year of elections</span></font></b></i></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><b><i><br></i></b></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">About Helen Hill:</span></font></b></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Helen Hill first visited Portuguese Timor in 1975 to collect data for her Monash University Masters' thesis</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">(years later published as 'Stirrings of Nationalism in East Timor, FRETILIN 1974-78'). After being involved in</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">the solidarity movement for many years, including as Chairperson of AETA, she revisited East Timor in August</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">2000 (during the UN Administration) for six months on study leave from Victoria University (VU) where she was </div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">teaching Asia-Pacific Community Development. She has visited Timor-Leste regularly for research, </div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">teaching and conference organising and, since retirement from VU has been living in Dili working in the </div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Ministry of Education of the República Democrática de Timor-Leste and at the National University and </div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">assisting VU with its links with Timor-Leste as an Honorary Fellow.</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><i>Also to speak:</i></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><b>Ella Fabry, Campaign Coordinator, Timor Sea Justice Campaign</b></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><b>Maria Maiavarela, East Timorese exchange student at Victoria University</b></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Maria has been invited to speak about her experiences in Melbourne and how it will relate to Timor-Leste</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">AETA book stall</div><p class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "> </p><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Bring your friends: organise a table for up to 10</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">Please contact AETA if you require a vegetarian meal</div><p class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "> </p><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255); "><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b class="">Bookings: <a href="https://www.trybooking.com/NTOM">https://www.trybooking.com/NTOM</a></b></span></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><b class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">For further information </span></b></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">call 9416 2960</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">email <a href="mailto:aetamel@aetamel.org" class="">aetamel@aetamel.org</a></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>Australia-East Timor Association</div><div>PO Box 93</div><div>Fitzroy VIC 3065</div><div>AUSTRALIA</div></div></div></span></span></div></div></span></div></body></html>