The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Australian journalist Marje Prior (left) interviews Sister Joan Healy, a nun from the Brown Josephite order, on the verandah of a house in the centre of Battambang owned by medical student Meas Nee and his family, with whom Sister Healy is staying. In the background a family gathers under their house as Prior tapes her conversation with Sister Healy about her experiences with Cambodian refugees, which started when she worked as a volunteer with refugees in the Thai border camps from 1989 before managing an Overseas Service Bureau (OSB) project with refugees who returned to the Battambang province under the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) Repatriation scheme. One of her major concerns is helping traumatised Cambodians to embrace the notion of self sufficiency. The OSB is an Australian non government organisation (NGO) which coordinates Australian volunteer projects abroad. Marje Prior and photographer Heide Smith visited Cambodia in January and August 1993 to document Australian involvement with UNTAC, later publishing a book entitled 'Shooting at the Moon - Cambodian Peacekeepers tell their stories'.
An informal portrait of Sister Joan Healy, a Brown Josephite nun, who, as a volunteer, worked with Cambodian refugees in the Thai border camps from 1989 before managing an Overseas Service Bureau (OSB
An informal portrait of Sister Joan Healy, an Australian nun from the Brown Josephite order, who as a volunteer worked with Cambodian refugees in the Thai border camps from 1989 before managing an Ove
Australian journalist Marje Prior takes a break in a small cafe in Phnom Penh where flags of many of the nations involved in the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) are strung ou
Australian journalist Marje Prior interviews Captain (Capt) West, a New Zealand member of the Mine Clearance Training Unit (MCTU) about the activities of the unit which was located just outside Battam
An informal portrait of photographer Heide Smith (left) and journalist Marje Prior standing beside their United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Toyota utility on a palm lined main road
A Buddhist monk stops to chat with Heide Smith's Khmer driver in the Maung Russey district of Battambang Province, close to the site of a dam building project which is being funded by the United Natio
