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Timor Sea Dispute

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February 25, 2016

Antara News - February 25, 2016

Kupang, E Nusa Tenggara – Ferdi Tanoni, an observer of the Timor Sea issue, expressed support to the people of Timor Leste for demanding the establishment of maritime boundaries and for urging Aust

February 24, 2016

UCA News - February 24, 2016

Thomas Ora, Dili, Timor Leste – About 3,000 people marched to the Australian embassy in the Timor-Leste capital of Dili on Feb.

February 23, 2016

Movement Against the Occupation of the Timor Sea Statement - February 23, 2016

[The following statement is from the Movement Against the Occupation of the Timor Sea, a civil society coalition which has organized a peaceful march and vigil in Dili today, across the street from

Timor See Justice Campaign News Release - February 23, 2016

A protest action will take place this morning outside the Australian Embassy in Dili, East Timor, calling for the establishment of permanent maritime boundaries along the 'median line' half way bet

Agence France Presse - February 23, 2016

Protesters rallied Tuesday outside the Australian embassy in the East Timor capital Dili, demanding Canberra come to the table "in good faith" to end a long-running dispute over major oil and gasfi

Melbourne Age - February 23, 2016

Daniel Flitton – Protesters have gathered outside Australia's embassy in Dili to demand an end to the bitter dispute with East Timor over undersea oil and gas fields.

February 18, 2016

Timor Sea Justice Campaign News Release - February 18, 2016

The Timor Sea Justice Campaign will hold a protest action in Melbourne at 12:30pm on Thursday 24 March outside the Department of Foreign Affairs in solidarity with a series of protests taking place

February 15, 2016

WA Today - February 15, 2016

Daniel Flitton – East Timor has hinted its international spying case against Australia could be abandoned should the two countries negotiate a new treaty to divide rich undersea oil and gas fields.

Sydney Morning Herald - February 15, 2016

Tom Allard – East Timor's Prime Minister has written to his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull asking him to open talks on a permanent maritime boundary between the two countries.

February 11, 2016

Australian Associated Press - February 11, 2016

The foreign affairs department insists a decision to deny a passport to a former-spy-turned-whistleblower is not aimed at stopping him from giving evidence in arbitration proceedings in a dispute b

Australian Associated Press - February 11, 2016

The foreign affairs department was not consulted before Labor announced a new policy to reopen good faith maritime boundary talks with East Timor.

February 10, 2016

Timor Sea Justice Campaign Media Release - February 10, 2016

Today during a National Press Club Address, the Shadow Foreign Minister, Tanya Plibersek, outlined the Australian Labor Party's recently amended policy position regarding the Timor Sea dispute.

Sydney Morning Herald - February 10, 2016

Tom Allard – Labor has pledged to submit to international adjudication over the disputed maritime boundary between Australia and East TImor if "good faith" negotiations fail to produce agreement.

ABC Radio Australia - February 10, 2016

Brigid Andersen – Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek says Labor wants to repair Australia's relationship with East Timor by renegotiating the maritime border between the two cou

February 9, 2016

Australian Associated Press - February 9, 2016

Karlis Salna – Australia spent $1 million fighting litigation brought by East Timor over an ASIO raid linked to a dispute over $40 billion of oil and gas reserves.

February 2, 2016

ABC Radio Australia - February 2, 2016

Steve Cannane – Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has intervened in an application by a former senior intelligence agent to have his passport returned, rejecting his application on the grounds he is a

Red Flag - February 2, 2016

Rutaban Yameen – Australia, which promotes itself as the liberator of the tiny nation of Timor-Leste (East Timor), has been ripping the country off.

February 1, 2016

Antara News - February 1, 2016

Kupang – The governments of Indonesia and Timor Leste will conduct a joint survey of some border areas in East Nusa Tenggara Province, which are still considered as disputed territory by the two co

January 24, 2016

Sydney Morning Herald - January 24, 2016

Tom Allard – Malcolm Turnbull's keynote speech in Washington DC last week, the first serious articulation of his foreign affairs stance since becoming prime minister, gained plenty of plaudits on b

December 13, 2015

Timor Sea Justice Campaign News - December 13, 2015

The Moreland Council in Melbourne's inner north is the latest Council to call on the Australian Government to immediately enter negotiations with East Timor to establish permanent maritime boundari

November 27, 2015

Timor Sea Justice Campaign (TSJC) Media Release - November 27, 2015

Forty years ago on this day, East Timor first declared its independence.

October 1, 2015

Associated Press - October 1, 2015

Matthew Pennington – Thirteen years after winning independence from Indonesia, East Timor has to wage another struggle for justice with a more powerful neighbor – but this time in the courts, the n

September 28, 2015

Platts - September 28, 2015

Sydney – The Australian government will "vigorously defend" arbitration proceedings initiated by Timor-Leste in relation to their treaty, which determines jurisdiction over oil and gas resources in

September 25, 2015

Australian Associated Press - September 25, 2015

The Australian and East Timor governments are embroiled in an oil and gas controversy involving the pipeline to Darwin from the Bayu Undan gas field.

September 24, 2015

Dow Jones - September 24, 2015

Canberra, Australia – East Timor has abandoned talks on a maritime boundary with Australia and renewed a legal challenge to gain a larger share of potentially lucrative undersea oil-and-gas fields.

July 26, 2015

Melbourne Age - July 26, 2015

Tom Allard – A Labor government will enter into maritime boundary negotiations with East Timor, a move that would likely give the tiny half-island state a far greater share of royalties and tax rec

June 26, 2015

Asian Review - June 26, 2015

Sadachika Watanabe, Nikkei staff writer, Dili – East Timor Prime Minister Rui Araujo expressed his eagerness to liquefy natural gas from a joint project with Australia onshore, with plans to use th

West Australian - June 26, 2015

Peter Klinger – Woodside Petroleum has quietly put the Laminaria-Corallina oil project in the Timor Sea up for sale, and is thought to be in talks with a preferred buyer.

June 25, 2015

The Guardian (Australia) - June 25, 2015

Paul Farrell – Whistleblowers with dual citizenship who speak out on Australia's national security – including those involved in allegations that Timor-Leste's cabinet room was bugged – could face

June 22, 2015

Sydney Morning Herald - June 22, 2015

Tom Allard – A former Australian Secret Intelligence Service officer and star witness for East Timor in a bitter dispute with the Abbott government over $40 billion in oil and gas revenue is facing

June 13, 2015

Associated Press - June 13, 2015

The Hague, Netherlands – East Timor has dropped litigation against its powerful neighbor Australia related to a spying scandal, the United Nations' highest court announced Friday.

Australian Associated Press - June 13, 2015

East Timor has officially dropped its case against Australia before the UN's international court of justice, after Canberra returned sensitive documents relating to a controversial oil and gas trea

June 5, 2015

The Guardian (Australia) - June 5, 2015

Daniel Hurst – Timor-Leste is set to resume a formal challenge against an oil and gas treaty that became mired in controversy following claims Australia bugged the cabinet room in Dili to gain the

Agence France Presse - June 5, 2015

Jakarta – Australia expressed disappointment Friday that East Timor will resume a legal battle in the UN's highest court over a controversial oil and gas treaty between the two countries, and vowed

June 3, 2015

ABC Radio Australia - June 3, 2015

Sara Everingham – East Timor is reviving its attempt to nullify a multi-billion-dollar oil and gas treaty with Australia on the grounds Australia spied on Timorese officials during the treaty negot

Sydney Morning Herald - June 3, 2015

Tom Allard – An espionage operation by Australia's foreign spy service underpins a new bid by East Timor to establish a maritime boundary between the two countries and gain a bigger share of the lu

May 4, 2015

ABC News - May 4, 2015

Sara Everingham – Australia has agreed to return documents seized during an Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) raid on the office of a lawyer representing East Timor's government

The Guardian (Australia) - May 4, 2015

Daniel Hurst – The Timor-Leste government has praised a decision by the Australian government to return documents about past spying that were at the centre of raids by the Australian Security Intel

March 17, 2015

Sydney Morning Herald - March 17, 2015

Daniel Flitton – East Timor's independence hero Xanana Gusmao has revealed he knew Australia was secretly spying in the tiny nation years before hauling Canberra before the international court for

ABC News - March 17, 2015

Canberra – Timor-Leste's former leader Xanana Gusmao has again warned Australia that his fledgling nation will not back away from a dispute between the two countries over lucrative oil reserves bel

March 16, 2015

Australian Associated Press - March 16, 2015

East Timor's former leader Xanana Gusmao has attacked Australia for hypocrisy over maritime boundary disputes.

March 13, 2015

Australian Associated Press - March 13, 2015

Woodside Petroleum is looking at options to develop the Sunrise liquefied natural gas project but says the East Timorese and Australian governments need to first agree on terms.

West Australian - March 13, 2015

Peter Klinger – The Timor-Leste Government has floated the prospect of buying Woodside Petroleum out of the giant Sunrise gas project, as the fledgling South East Asian gets increasingly impatient

March 1, 2015

WA Today - March 1, 2015

Philip Dorling – A former Australian spy remains under police investigation more than 14 months after ASIO controversially raided his home and triggered international legal action by East Timor tha

February 23, 2015

Australian Associated Press - February 23, 2015

Woodside's decision to shelve its Sunrise LNG project has not dented East Timor's desire for the resource to be developed.

February 20, 2015

Australian Associated Press - February 20, 2015

Kim Christian – East Timor's new prime minister has rejected Woodside Petroleum's plan to process gas offshore, leaving the $17 billion Sunrise project dead in the water.

February 19, 2015

Sydney Morning Herald - February 19, 2015

Daniel Flitton – East Timor's new prime minister has signalled he will negotiate "in an honest and friendly way" with Australia over shared ocean oil and gas fields, declaring his country does not

February 18, 2015

Reuters - February 18, 2015

Melbourne – Woodside Petroleum expressed doubts its Greater Sunrise gas prospect could go ahead this decade, leaving it off a list of growth projects out to 2019 and beyond in its annual results pr

February 11, 2015

Timor Sea Justice Campaign Media Release - February 11, 2015

With Dr Rui Araujo expected to be sworn in next week as East Timor's new Prime Minister, Timor Sea Justice Campaigners are calling for Australia to mark the occasion by committing to a

February 9, 2015

Melbourne Age - February 9, 2015

Angela Macdonald-Smith – Woodside Petroleum has called for a resolution between Australian and East Timor of the renewed uncertainty over the administration of the Sunrise gas resource in the Timor