Motion (by Senator Brown) proposed:

That the Senate—

(a)   welcomes to Canberra, Mrs Wilhelmina Rennie, British mother of murdered Channel Nine journalist, Mr Malcolm Rennie, on her quest to discover the truth of her son's death in East Timor 22 years ago and offers to her all possible assistance in her efforts;

(b)   calls on the Federal Government to initiate a full judicial inquiry into the deaths of six Australian-based journalists in East Timor in 1975, as the proper follow-up to the initial findings of Indonesian culpability by the 1996 preliminary report, Deaths of Australian-based journalists in East Timor in 1975 , by Mr Tom Sherman;

(c)   requests that this new judicial inquiry be given wide terms of reference to include seeking information from overseas, especially East Timor and Indonesia, noting the exclusion of these countries from the terms of reference of Mr Sherman's preliminary report;

(d)   requests that such a judicial inquiry have access to signals intelligence files and intelligence assessments;

(e)   requests that Federal Government protection be offered to witnesses in Australia who may wish to come forward to the inquiry;

(f)   calls on the Federal Government to request an inquiry into the six deaths through the Indonesian human rights body, Kom Nas Ham; and

(g)   calls on the Indonesian Government to:

   (i)   investigate the circumstances of the deaths of the six journalists and to prosecute those Indonesian military personnel responsible for the killings,

   (ii)   acknowledge the truth of the circumstances of the deaths of six journalists in Balibo and Dili,

   (iii)   formally apologise to the relatives of these men for their deaths, and

   (iv)   allow East Timor an act of self-determination through a United Nations monitored referendum.

   Question put: