The man who led the UN's civilian police force in East Timor knows better than anyone what challenges Australian troops will face there. He talks about what Australian Troops will encounter in East Timor. Paul Keating has made a statement this evening about the Indonesian cancellation of the Security Agreement which he signed with them in 1995. More are arriving all the time. Aid is getting through to many of the camps, but not others.
Aid agencies say there is a lot more the Australian government, companies and public can do to help.
Among the aid agencies trying to get help into the camps in West Timor is the Australian Opportunity International, which usually specialises in helping people in the developing world start their own businesses. Now though, their West Timor partner agency is getting direct emergency aid in to the camps. Simon Lynch is the agency's Indonesia Country director, just back from West Timor. He talks about the conditions his colleagues had seen. The names of seven more Russians have been added to the list of dead from an unexplained series of bombings around the country.