It sends chills down my spine every time I see it.

A small, rundown, abandoned house with no roof, no doors, surrounded by grazing cattle on the road into Balibo in East Timor. It looks so inoffensive , so unremarkable now.

You brace yourself, walk inside and you can’t help it — your mind wanders back 50 years to the atrocity that occurred there. It’s the scene of the brutal murders of five young Australian TV journalists just doing their jobs.

Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham and Tony Stewart from Channel 7 in Melbourne and Malcolm Rennie and Brian Peters from Channel 9 in Sydney were in Balibo to report on Indonesian incursions into the newly declared independent nation of East Timor.

They believed they would be treated as neutrals because they were from Australia, a “friendly neighb

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