Kate Lamb – At the international court of justice in The Hague this week, the tiny half-island nation of Timor-Leste has accused Australia of violating its sovereignty in a souring batt

Daniel Hurst – Timor-Leste has told the international court of justice it rejects the "careless and outrageous" suggestion it was encouraging the violation of Australian laws about inte

Tom Allard – The Australian government has admitted it wants to block a former spy turned whistleblower from giving evidence to an international tribunal where East Timor is challenging

Tom Allard – Australia has accused East Timor of making "frankly, offensive" remarks before the International Court of Justice about Attorney-General George Brandis, as its lawyers sugg

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is being urged to negotiate with East Timor to establish permanent maritime boundaries with Australia's northern neighbour, determining clear ownership of val

Paulina Quintao – The Asian Federation for Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) composed by Nepal, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea, El Salvador and Timor-Leste, urge the Timo

Mary Gearin – Australia has rejected East Timor's arguments that it has the right to demand the return of materials seized in an ASIO raid last year.

Tom Allard – East Timor has called on the International Court of Justice to deliver a "clear, firm and severe" condemnation of Australia for using ASIO agents to raid the office of its

The Timor Sea Justice Campaign has launched an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbot urging him to establish permanent maritime boundaries with East Timor in accordance with internat

Amsterdam – East Timor demanded on Monday that Australia return seized documents relating to the two countries' negotiations over oil and gas reserves thought to be worth tens of billio

Tom Allard – Attorney-General George Brandis has given an extraordinary undertaking not to read highly sensitive documents seized by ASIO agents in a raid on East Timor's lawyer last ye

Daniel Hurst – Australia's "illegal" seizure of documents from a Canberra-based lawyer acting for Timor-Leste falls short of the high standards expected of a nation with considerable in

David Robie – When Timor-Leste opens its lawsuit against Australia in a United Nations courtroom spy drama in The Hague this week with the economic survival of this Asia-Pacific country

The Hague – Tiny, young East Timor drags its giant neighbour Australia before the United Nations' top court next week in a cloak-and-dagger case with billions of dollars in natural reso

Michael Bachelard – East Timor's resistance leader turned Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, has announced he will retire as leader of the tiny republic some time this year.

Jonathan Pearlman – Australia faces growing accusations that it spied extensively on Timor Leste during crucial talks over a deal to share gas and oil fields worth an estimated A$40 bil

Richard Ackland – Let's try to join a few dots.

Paulina Quintao – The Timor-Leste government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MNEC) and the Indonesian Government intend to establish a commission to look into t

Michael Sainsbury, Bangkok – Deep under the Timor Sea, there is a huge reserve of gas.

Paul Cleary – When Australian workmen turned up with an enormous crane to renovate and reinforce the office of the East Timor prime minister in early 2004, they looked like Paul Hogan i

Richard Ackland – Loose ends tend to clutter our lives and, supposedly, a new year is a good time to tidy them up or burn them to cinders.

Tom Allard – A balmy summer morning, the leafy back streets of Narrabundah in suburban Canberra, and some 15 besuited ASIO agents are ringing the doorbell of a modest red brick home tha

Tom Allard – For Kirsty Sword-Gusmao, the news that Australia spied on her adopted homeland under the cover of an aid program cut especially deep.

A resurrected Timor Sea Justice Campaign will hold its first public campaign meeting on 23 January 2014 in Melbourne.

Aboeprijadi Santoso, Amsterdam – One of the most interesting – and most controversial – presidential hopefuls is, no doubt, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Prabowo Subianto.

Timor-Leste has instituted proceedings in the UN's top court in relation to Asio raids on the office of a Canberra lawyer representing the tiny country.

Paulina Quintao – NGO La'o Hamutuk's representative Charles Scheiner urged the Timor-Leste government to halt two contracts to the Chinese Nuclear Industry Construction No.

Timor-Leste investigative journalist Jose Belo has been presented with one of the 2013 Sergio Vieira de Mello human rights awards by the President, Taur Matan Ruak.

The Australian Federal Police has denied seizing a computer and phones belonging to relatives of East Timor's finance and resources ministers.

Gwynne Dyer – And now for something completely different: A spy story that isn't about Edward Snowden's disclosures and the US National Security Agency's surveillance of everything and

Peter Lloyd, staff – East Timor's former president Jose Ramos-Horta says Australia would never have secured a seat on the United Nations Security Council had claims that it spied on its

Damien Kingsbury – Australia and Timor-Leste are in a diplomatic lull following the revelations that Australia spied on Timor-Leste's cabinet via agents working through its aid program.

Whatever merit the Australian government might discern in spying on the ministers of East Timor in 2004, it is beggarly that its operatives apparently went about their work in Dili usin

Tom Allard – East Timor's government believes it has identified the members of a team of four Australian spies who allegedly bugged its government offices, describing it as "very distur

East Timor is ready to develop the Greater Sunrise gas fields "tomorrow" but refuses to bend to Woodside's preference for a floating project.

Ezequiel Freitas – President of the Republic, Taur Matan Ruak (TMR), said the Caras Massacre that took place in 1983 was an event of great significance to the history of Timor-Leste bec

Donald K. Anton – Claims of Australian spying on East Timor are only the latest chapter in a saga of clashes over treaties.

Despite the usual diplomatic niceties at the celebration of the thirty-eighth anniversary of Timor-Leste's declaration of independence in Canberra last week, the raid on that nation's l

Gordon Peake and Piers Kelly – With allegations of Australian chicanery during the Timor Sea negotiations, a definitional question emerges for the media: just what is the correct name o

Shirley Shackleton – This week the home and offices of Australian barrister Bernard Collaery were raided, while he was in the Hague seeking arbitration for a fair deal for the Timorese

Damien Kingsbury – The new government is not off on the right foot in foreign policy terms, with the Indonesian spying scandal dominating headlines.

Lenore Taylor – The inspector general of intelligence and security has issued an unusual public statement to deny that any former spy had raised concerns with her or her predecessor abo

Peter Lloyd, staff – East Timor says the Australian Government knew it would call upon the testimony of four whistleblowers in its dispute regarding a $40 billion oil and gas treaty.

For many years, Australia has been stealing the oil and gas from the Timor Sea, in an area which belongs to Timor-Leste under international legal principles.

Nick Miller – East Timor's government will not be deterred in pressing its case to scrap an oil treaty worth billions of dollars over claims of spying by Australia, an international neg

Julian Drape – East Timor says it won't be deterred from challenging a multi-billion dollar oil and gas treaty with Australia in The Hague despite raids on a lawyer's office and the hom

It is disturbing that more than a decade after East Timor secured its independence, with the assistance of Australian forces, our nations now are in dispute.

Australia's role in supporting the transition of East Timor, or Timor Leste, to independence in 2002 – making it the first new sovereign state of the 21st century – was pivotal.

Bernard Keane – As the United States-style war on whistleblowers and journalists ramps up in Australia, one of the key myths about national security whistleblowers has taken another ham

Paul Cleary – Oil and espionage have gone hand in hand during the past four decades of contestation over the lucrative petroleum resources of the Timor Sea, so the latest revelations sh