Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has held the position for five years but made her first official visit to Timor-Leste, a country…

Michael Leach – When the newly formed Change for Progress Alliance, or AMP, secured an outright majority at Timor-Leste's 12 May election, the…

Christopher Knaus – New South Wales Labor will move a motion to condemn the "entirely inappropriate" prosecution of former spy Witness K and his…

Estevao Nuno – The executive director (CEO) of NGO Timor Aid, Florentino Sarmento, said the original culture of Timor, handed down from the…

Bec Strating – Last week, an Australian leader visited Dili for the first time in five years. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop spent 36 hours in…

Paulina Quintao – The general director for Tourism Jose Quintas appealed to all citizens to be responsible for keeping the capital, Dili, clean…

Kerrin Thomas – An Australian dentist and a small group of volunteers have managed to check more than 1,200 mouths in just two weeks on Timor…

Australia is trying to reboot its troubled relations with historical friend East Timor, with Julie Bishop the first foreign minister to visit in…

Steve Cannane – Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of East Timor Jose Ramos-Horta says charges should be dropped against two men who…

Helen Davidson and Christopher Knaus – Australia should drop its prosecution of Witness K and lawyer Bernard Collaery because the two men "acted…

Sophie Raynor – Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop arrived in Timor-Leste at the weekend, on her first official visit and the first by any…

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has rejected suggestions Australia has bullied East Timor in the fight over natural gas and says it's time to renew…

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will be the first Australian minister to visit Timor-Leste in five years when she goes as part of an…

Luke Henriques-Gomes – The former Victorian premier Steve Bracks says the federal Labor party should speak up about the Turnbull government's…

Christopher Knaus – Human rights campaigners have urged Australia to drop the prosecution of a former spy and his lawyer who helped expose a…

Paulina Quintao – The Executive Director for Business Registration and Verification (SERVE), Florencio Sanches said they recently received…

John Braithwaite – Much of the media commentary on the government prosecution of Witness K and his lawyer Bernard Collaery has focused on…

Sydney – Australian authorities should not prosecute a former Australian spy and his lawyer for exposing government wrongdoing, Human Rights Watch…

Helen Davidson – Timor-Leste activists have condemned the Australian government over the prosecution of Witness K and lawyer Bernard Collaery for…

James Scambary – East Timor held its fourth parliamentary election in May 2018. Kay Rala 'Xanana' Gusmao's newly minted coalition, the Change for…

Shannon Power – As Pride celebrations continue around the world, the upcoming parade in the tiny nation of East Timor is a welcome reminder of why…

Paulina Quintao – The Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Timor-Leste (CCI-TL) Kathleen Goncalves said entrepreneurs have…

Australia's greedy and probably illegal theft, through espionage, in 2004 of fledgling, struggling neighbour Timor-Leste's government's…

Unprecedented legal action against two men for allegedly breaching the intelligence services act has sparked fierce debate about the balance…

Matthew Doran – Intelligence whistleblower turned independent MP Andrew Wilkie has called on the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to launch an…

Christopher Knaus – Australian federal police (AFP) say they are assessing a request to investigate the lawfulness of Australia's controversial…

Michael Vincent – Australian lawyer and former legal representative for East Timor, Bernard Collaery, says the charges against him for allegedly…

Max Lane – The laying of criminal charges under the Intelligence Services Act 2001 against Witness K and lawyer Bernard Collaery in relation to…

Christopher Knaus – A decorated US diplomat spied upon by Australia as he represented Timor-Leste during lucrative oil and gas negotiations has…

Binoy Kampmark – It took the protective grace of parliamentary privilege to encourage independent Australian MP Andrew Wilkie to reveal that a…

Patrick O'Connor – A new East Timorese government was sworn into office on June 22, following an early election held in May that was triggered by…

Christopher Knaus – The former New South Wales supreme court justice Anthony Whealy has warned it would be "disturbing" to prosecute a former spy…

Paul Karp – The attorney general has refused to elaborate on why he approved the prosecution of a former spy who revealed Australia had bugged…

Viji Menon – Timor-Leste's second parliamentary elections in a space of 10 months have raised the prospect for a resolution to the young country's…

The President of the Board of Timor-Leste's Women's Network Timor-Leste Judite Dias Ximenes said women's representation within the divulged…

David Dixon – They just couldn't leave it alone could they? The Attorney-General's decision to approve charges against "Witness K" and his lawyer…

Anne Barker – When police in East Timor caught a large fleet of Chinese fishing boats last year, with thousands of dead sharks on board, the…

Clinton Fernandes – The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, Sarah McNaughton SC, recently filed criminal charges against Canberra lawyer…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo congratulated Timor Leste for holding a successful election on May 12.

"I want to…

Jakarta – First Lady Cidalia Lopes Nobre Mouzinho Guterres of Timor Leste paid a brief visit Thursday to Kampung KB (Family Planning Village) at a…

Nick O'Malley – A retired senior judge has expressed alarm over the decision to charge the former spy known as Witness K and his solicitor Bernard…

Michael Sainsbury and Jose Belo, Dili – Timor-Leste's new government has hit a major hurdle in its plan to improve fraught relations with…

Anton Hermansyah, Bogor, West Java – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo welcomed East Timor President Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres at the…

Criminal charges have been filed against a spy-turned-whistleblower who exposed a secret Australian bugging operation in East Timor, parliament…

Andrew Greene and Lucy Sweeney – A Canberra lawyer whose client exposed a secret Australian spying operation in East Timor has described the…

Paul Karp and agencies – Criminal charges have been filed against the spy-turned-whistleblower who revealed Australia had bugged Timor-Leste's…

Rod Mcguirk, Canberra, Australia – Australia's prime minister on Friday distanced his government from a decision to prosecute a former spy and his…

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – Timor Leste President Fransisco Guterres urged has called on Indonesia to support his country to become a member…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo met Timor Leste President Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres during the latter's state visit…

Celestina Soares – The Director of the Central Basic School (EBC) in Akadiru-hun, Dili, Mateus Pinto Tilman urged the Public Service Commission (…