Wayne Sievers

Who is Wayne Sievers?

Wayne Thomas Padraig Sievers is a former Australian police officer, trade union official, a social justice campaigner and has unsuccessfully stood in numerous elections. He exposed the failure of the Australian Government, despite being forewarned, to prevent widespread Indonesian military-backed militia violence in the former Portuguese colony of East Timor during the territory’s 1999 independence ballot. Thousands of people are believed to have died and East Timor’s economic infrastructure was shattered. Sievers had served as an Australian police officer attached to the United Nations during the infamous militia siege of the United Nations compound in Dili, East Timor.