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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Tom Allard – The former senior spy who blew the whistle on alleged Australian bugging of East Timor's government took his case to the intelligence watchdog but it did not investigate an

East Timor's prime minister says he is shocked by the Australian Government's decision to authorise raids on a lawyer and whistleblower who were set to provide evidence against Australi

Jane Wardell, Sydney – Attorney-General George Brandis said on Wednesday raids by Australia's domestic spy agency on the Canberra offices of a lawyer representing East Timor over Austra

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

The Australia East Timor Friendship Association of South Australia today released a statement regarding the spying scandal against Timor-Leste by Australian security.

Clinton Fernandes – It is not hard to see why ASIO yesterday raided the office and home of a Canberra-based lawyer, Bernard Collaery, and the house of a former Australian intelligence a

Katharine Murphy and Lenore Taylor – A first-hand witness to alleged Australian spying against Timor-Leste in 2004 has been detained and searched at his Canberra home, according to a pr

A lawyer representing East Timor in its spying case against Australia says his office has been raided by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).

Tom Clarke – Indonesia isn't the only country in our region upset about Australia's spying.

David Robie, Dili – On 28 November 1975, Timor-Leste made its fateful unilateral declaration of independence.

Rory Callinan – Six years ago, NSW magistrate Dorelle Pinch recommended that the killings of Australian journalists Brian Peters, 29, Malcolm Rennie, 28, Gary Cunningham, 27, Gregory Sh

Paulina Quintao – Despite the outcry from the community for the government to ban cigarette advertising in public spaces, the Minister of Health said it won't be able to because there i

Reheated allegations that Australia bugged Timor-Leste's leaders during negotiations over resource revenues will reinforce perceptions that colonialism still underpins our foreign polic

This movement was established by the university students who are concerned about the serious crimes committed by the Indonesian soldiers from 1975-1999.

Joanne Wallis – In March 2013 Australia drew down the last members of the Australian Defence Force-led international forces that had been deployed to stabilise Timor-Leste after a major

Dan Harrison – A senior East Timorese minister has backed Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's call for a code of conduct on spying, questioning whether intelligence gatherin

East Timor is accusing Australia of bugging its cabinet for commercial advantage and threatening to end a lucrative gas treaty over the claims.

Amy Ripley – The respected East Timorese human rights organisation La'o Hamutuk is demanding that the Indonesian government finally be held accountable for their bloody 24-year occupati

The Abbott Government is facing fresh accusations of spying on a near neighbour and it could cost Australia dearly.

Leo Shanahan – East Timor Minister of State Agio Pereira has said allegations of spying by Australian intelligence on Indonesia's President will not be used as ammunition in Dili's disp

Conor Duffy, Nikki Tugwell, Peter Lloyd and staff – Australia is under further pressure over spying in the region, with East Timor accusing spies of bugging its cabinet room for commerc

Amid the furore over allegations of spying on Indonesia's leaders, East Timor has repeated claims that Australia bugged its leaders during delicate negotiations on the Timor Sea resourc

Manila, Philippines – Economic losses frrom climate change could reach as much as 10% of Timor-Leste's annual GDP by 2100, making it one of the worst hit in the Pacific, says a new Asia

Fransisco Rosarians, Kupang – Commander of Security Forces of Indonesian-Timor Leste Border, Major Infantry Budi Prasetyo said the number of smuggling in the border area of the two coun

Agustinus Tetiro – State-owned construction companies Waskita Karya and Pembangunan Perumahan have set their eyes on the developing economy of East Timor.

Celestino Gusmao – University students from Timor-Leste's eastern Baucau district gathered this week to commemorate the 1979 Matebian cave massacre in a month of events focused on prote

David Robie, Dili – While the Timor-Leste media industry was rejuvenated by a national congress last month that voted on a new code of ethics, one of the country's most independent chie

The Timor-Leste capital Dili's Chinese-built main heavy oil power plant at Hera, about 15 km from the city, still remains at the centre of controversy.

The government of Timor-Leste (East Timor) plans to provide Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) land for agriculture, as part of an arrangement that is similar to what it already has with Angola an

Muhammad Al Azhari – A large mixed use property project, managed by an Indonesian building contractor, held a ground-breaking ceremony in Dili, East Timor, last week, signaling a strong

Havana – A total of 246 medical students in Timor-Leste received their degrees today in that nation as a part of a joint project between the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba an

Jakarta – The Timor Leste Attorney General's Office (AGO) plans to strengthen relations with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in the future.

November 12 is the 22nd anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre.

Truth and Justice are the foundations for developing democracy in Timor-Leste

Stephanie Boulet – Legal experts and NGOs in East Timor say laws against domestic violence are failing to reduce rates of violence against women.

Ezequiel Freitas – Members of National Parliament consider the work of the Anti-Corruption Commission (KAK) to be ineffective combating corruption, especially in the area of human resou

Australian RWB correspondent Mark Pearson tells us about an historic congress of Timor Leste journalists which was held in Dili from 25 to 27 October.

Paulina Quintao – The Marie Stopes International Timor-Leste (MSI-TL) Clinic Coordinator Maria Fernanda Serra said mothers who have unsafe abortions risk their lives and could die if th

Nyan Lynn Aung and Tim McLaughlin – Aspiring ASEAN member Timor Leste appears likely to remain on the outside for at least another year, as Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says th

Michael Bachelard – East Timor's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has launched a swingeing attack "powerful countries [who] shamelessly violate the civic rights...

In September 1999, Sander Thoenes, the Financial Times correspondent in Jakarta, travelled to East Timor to report on the turmoil engulfing the territory.