FED: Beazley defends previous govts stance on E. Timor

AAP General News (Australia)
02-04-1999
FED: Beazley defends previous govts stance on E. Timor

By Ilsa Colson

MELBOURNE, Feb 4 AAP - Federal Opposition leader Kim Beazley today defended the stance of
previous Labor governments on East Timor after scathing criticism of it by ALP foreign affairs
spokesman Laurie Brereton.

"We pushed very hard for East Timorese human rights - that's what we did when we were in
government," Mr Beazley told reporters in Melbourne.

Mr Brereton had earlier told a Queensland meeting of the Australian Institute of
International Affairs that Labor and coalition policy on East Timor over the past 25 …