Fretilin's post-election woes are given a good airing in Damien Kingsbury's Melbourne Age piece about how Timor is embracing democracy in spite of the impoverished country's strife. What now for Alkatiri? Ranjit Singh has taken another potshot at NZ hypocrisy over "democracy" and Fiji. And Jason Brown has a barbed dig at media freedom awards and back-scratching.
But for those seriously contemplating the poor state of Asia-Pacific regional reporting, Louise Williams has a few sobering comments with this account of how she got started.
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