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1 'I Had Sensed Her Calling Me Throughout Life' Jill Jolliffe , 2014 single work extract
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 May 2014; (p. 18-21) 'For foreign correspondent and Balibo author Jill Jolliffe, a late-life encounter with her birth mother helped heal the wounds of a traumatic childhood.'
1 1 y separately published work icon Run For Your Life : A Memoir Jill Jolliffe , South Melbourne : Affirm Press , 2014 7423355 2014 single work autobiography

'Unwillingly given up by her birth mother and adopted into a violent household, Jill Jolliffe found the course of her life set before she even had time to choose.

'She ran away as a teenager and has been running ever since. Jolliffe became a thorn in the establishment’s side and earned herself a hefty ASIO file. Following her instincts, she became a foreign correspondent – risking her life to report on Indonesia’s occupation of East Timor, exposing sex-trafficking rackets in Portugal and ducking bullets while covering a war in Angola.

'Over time she realises that the recurring pattern of her career has been reporting the stories of young women in distress, as though trying to free her younger self from the chains of being a ‘Forgotten Australian’. In the course of writing her memoir, an unexpected meeting with her birth mother takes her life full circle.' (Publication summary)
1 Toys Jill Jolliffe , 2014 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 72 no. 4 2014; (p. 138-148)
1 Unquiet Graves Jill Jolliffe , 2013 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , January no. 12 2013; (p. 9-26)
1 1 y separately published work icon Finding Santana Jill Jolliffe , Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 2010 Z1780874 2010 single work biography Tells of Joliffe's clandestine 1994 journey across the Indonesian archipelago pursued by the Suharto dictatorship's notorious secret police to interview East Timorese guerrilla commander Nino Konis Santana. Part memoir, part adventure story, it is written from the diaries of the journey and interwoven with those of intrepid nineteenth-century traveler Anna Forbes, who also narrowly escaped death in the East Timor mountains. [From Trove record]
1 'Courage in Your Own' Jill Jolliffe , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 323 2010; (p. 11-12)
— Review of The Circle of Silence : A Personal Testimony Before, During and After Balibo Shirley Shackleton , 2010 single work autobiography
1 Tapestry of Trauma Jill Jolliffe , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 318 2010; (p. 48-49)
— Review of Memory Is Another Country : Women of the Vietnamese Diaspora Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen , 2009 multi chapter work biography
1 Indon Blitz Jill Jolliffe , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 313 2009; (p. 41-42)
— Review of Shooting Balibo : Blood and Memory in East Timor Tony Maniaty , 2009 single work autobiography
1 Protection Jill Jolliffe , 2004 single work short story
— Appears in: Northern Territory Literary Awards 2004 2004; (p. 16-21)
2 4 y separately published work icon Cover-Up : The Inside Story of the Balibo Five Jill Jolliffe , Melbourne : Scribe , 2001 Z1600551 2001 single work biography Revealing the previously hidden details of one of the most shameful episodes in Australia's history, this book provides a unique, first-hand account of the deaths of five young television reporters who were killed by the Indonesian military in the East Timor border town of Balibo in October 1975. (Libraries Australia record)
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