The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An informal portrait of Swedish former aid worker Stig Engstrom with his partner, Australian aid worker Lyndall McLean at their residence in Phnom Penh. Through his company SOCONS, Engstrom secured the contract to establish an OTC network in Cambodia. Demand for more telecommunications channels was such that almost immediately after the system was established, Engstrom's company was obliged to increase capacity from seven to 18 to 36 channels. McLean had established the Australian Permanent Mission in Cambodia in 1991 before being appointed to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) as the Deputy Director of Civil Administration for Phnom Penh, responsible for sorting out the legal and administrative problems of Cambodian law and attempting to gain some legal redress for Cambodians who felt their legal rights had been abused with housing, property and associated civil areas. Starting with a staff of four, McLean ended up with a team of 25 plus a large group of Khmer interpreters.
A member of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) uses a Telecom payphone at the Australian Force Communications Unit (FCU) base at Battambang as a group of UNTAC soldiers gath
Two Cambodian civil servants on the second floor of the Constitutional Assembly building in Phnom Penh. The rebuilding of Cambodia's administration came under the juristriction of the Civil Administra
Ross Macindoe (right), a senior Australian agricultural extension officer who is developing a new curriculum for a three year diploma course in agriculture at the Preah Leap Agricultural College, stan
Behind the kitchen at the Australian headquarters at Phnom Penh, known to the Cambodians as 'Pteah Australii'. From April 1992 the Australian Force Communications Unit (FCU) contingent of the United N
The replacement contingent of Australian United Nations (UN) peacekeepers arrives in Phnom Penh in preperation of the contingent soon to return home. Unidentified Australian peacekeepers disembark fro
Red Shield Defence Services (Salvation Army) Commissioner, Captain Clifford (Cliff) Randall treats of Australian biscuits to local children in a village in the Phnom Penh province. From April 1992 the