Abstract
This introduction provides an overview of events influencing Australia's East Timor policy and eventual decision to support the deployment of UN peacekeepers in 1999. The piece outlines internal Australian policy discussions leading over the East Timor issue, and the Howard government's reversal of policy from backing policies of enhanced autonomy and the avoidance of the use of military force, to backing policies of East Timorese independence and the intervention of a multinational military force. The piece also sets the scene for the other articles dealing with East Timor by Desmond Ball, and Patrick Candio and Roland Bleiker.
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