Loro Horta – Contact between Chinese and Timorese dates back to the early 15th century when the ships of the legendary Chinese explorer Admiral…

David Robie – The proposed Timor-Leste media law is a draconian mixed bag. And it is ironical that such a document with lofty claims of protecting…

Ezequiel Freitas – The Timor-Leste Parliamentary Women's Group (GMPTL) intends to propose legislation to regulate pornography in the country.

Philip Dorling – Australia's chief intelligence watchdog has been drawn into a legal battle over government claims that Australia's…

David Robie – A year after Indonesian troops killed more than 270 peaceful demonstrators at the cemetery of Santa Cruz in the Timor-Leste capital…

Thea Cowie – The Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Canberra has ordered declassification of a number of documents which the federal government…

Paulina Quintao – The Disability Working Group (DWG) Timor-Leste President, Joaquin Soares, demands the Government of Timor-Leste ratify the…

Rose Iser – Concerns about Australia's troubled relationship with Indonesia are behind the government's refusal to release secret 30-year-old…

Tunggal Pawestri – In the second week of December 2013, I visited Dili, Timor Leste. It was not my first visit. Since 2009, every year I go there…

Paulina Quintao – Human Rights Activist, Joao Soares Pequinho, believes the Timor-Leste's government failed to implement the recommendations of…

Philip Dorling – Federal Attorney-General George Brandis has moved to block the release of secret archives that would reveal the Australian…

Paul Cleary – It was a case of saving the best to last. On the third and final day of the proceedings brought by East Timor before the…

Tom Allard – In the International Court of Justice this week, as lawyers from Australia and East Timor traded barbs and legal argument in equal…

The East Timor spying scandal currently in the Hague is the latest in a long history of Australian aid being used as a cover for intelligence…

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…

Tom Allard – The Australian government has admitted it wants to block a former spy turned whistleblower from giving evidence to an international…

Daniel Hurst – Timor-Leste has told the international court of justice it rejects the "careless and outrageous" suggestion it was encouraging the…

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is being urged to negotiate with East Timor to establish permanent maritime boundaries with Australia's…

Paulina Quintao – The Asian Federation for Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) composed by Nepal, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea, El…

Tom Allard – Australia has accused East Timor of making "frankly, offensive" remarks before the International Court of Justice about Attorney-…

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…

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

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

Tom Allard – Attorney-General George Brandis has given an extraordinary undertaking not to read highly sensitive documents seized by ASIO agents…

Amsterdam – East Timor demanded on Monday that Australia return seized documents relating to the two countries' negotiations over oil and gas…

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

David Robie – When Timor-Leste opens its lawsuit against Australia in a United Nations courtroom spy drama in The Hague this week with the…

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…

Michael Bachelard – East Timor's resistance leader turned Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, has announced he will retire as leader of the tiny…

Jonathan Pearlman – Australia faces growing accusations that it spied extensively on Timor Leste during crucial talks over a deal to share gas and…

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

Dot One: In 2004, David Irvine, the head of the external spy agency, the Australian Secret…

Paulina Quintao – The Timor-Leste government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MNEC) and the Indonesian Government intend…

Michael Sainsbury, Bangkok – Deep under the Timor Sea, there is a huge reserve of gas. Geologists now believe it is worth upwards of US$100…

Paul Cleary – When Australian workmen turned up with an enormous crane to renovate and reinforce the office of the East Timor prime minister in…

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.

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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…

Tom Allard – A balmy summer morning, the leafy back streets of Narrabundah in suburban Canberra, and some 15 besuited ASIO agents are ringing the…

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

Campaign spokesperson…

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

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…

Paulina Quintao – NGO La'o Hamutuk's representative Charles Scheiner urged the Timor-Leste government to halt two contracts to the Chinese Nuclear…

Timor-Leste investigative journalist Jose Belo has been presented with one of the 2013 Sergio Vieira de Mello human rights awards by…

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…

Peter Lloyd, staff – East Timor's former president Jose Ramos-Horta says Australia would never have secured a seat on the United Nations Security…

Whatever merit the Australian government might discern in spying on the ministers of East Timor in 2004, it is beggarly that its operatives…

Damien Kingsbury – Australia and Timor-Leste are in a diplomatic lull following the revelations that Australia spied on Timor-Leste's cabinet via…

Tom Allard – East Timor's government believes it has identified the members of a team of four Australian spies who allegedly bugged its government…

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…