This exhibition investigates the heroic exploits of the commandos, the reasons for their initial successes and why the Timorese supported the Australians. It also explores the enduring relationship between the men of the 2/2nd and the people of East Timor, and the contorted relationship between the Australian Government and East Timor/Timor Leste from the 1975 invasion to the 1999 Intervention and beyond.

This exhibition highlights the war efforts of Australia’s first guerilla commandos and their life-long endeavour to repay a ‘debt of honour’ to the people of Timor-Leste.

[criado]. Some 40,000 East Timorese lost their lives as a direct consequence of Australia's military presence in Timor. This is the story of the remarkable friendship between the kriadu and the Australian men who fought with the 2/2nd and 2/4th Commando associations, of the memorial created to honour the East Timorese contributions and sacrifice, and the genesis of the Dare Memorial Museum."

hundred men of the Australian 2/2 Independent Company in Portuguese Timor, now Timor-Leste, was unique and its toll on the Timorese people was inestimable. Timorese deaths during the remaining four years of the war have been estimated at 40,000. The video was made about the history of East Timor and about the work of the Mary MacKillop East Timor Mission there as one Australian response to the situation of the Timorese people.