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Poster showing Australian peacekeepers in East Timor

Poster titled ‘Protector, carer, neighbour / Australians in East Timor’. International Force East Timor (INTERFET) logo in bottom right hand corner. Colour photograph shows an Australian INTERFET personnel embracing Timorese children.

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National Museum of Australia

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