East Timor
A correction on East Timor
June 1, 2006
In the article “Why Australia wants a regime change in East Timor”, posted on May 30, the following paragraph appeared:
Why Australia wants “regime change” in East Timor
By Nick Beams, May 30, 2006
If one were to believe the official version, the intervention of Australian troops into East Timor is driven by the purest motives. They are there simply to restore peace and stability after the colla...
Australian military occupation of East Timor proceeds “full steam ahead”
By Peter Symonds, May 27, 2006
As Australian troops pour into East Timor and take control of the capital Dili, the neo-colonial character of the operation is becoming increasingly evident. Under the pretext of preventing civil war ...
Australian troops deployed to occupy East Timor
By James Cogan, May 25, 2006
In a blatant act of neo-colonialism, the Howard government is sending up to 1,300 Australian troops to re-occupy East Timor. Special Air Service commandos are already in the capital Dili and advance u...
Australia continues to pressure East Timor on oil and gas
By John Roberts, October 14, 2004
Another round of talks between Australian and East Timorese officials over the disputed oil and gas fields in the Timor Sea concluded on September 30 without any agreement. The two sides left Darwin i...
Australia pushes ahead with grab for Timor oil and gas
By John Roberts, April 30, 2004
At the latest border talks between East Timor and Australia held in Dili on April 19-22, Canberra reaffirmed its determination to flout international law and keep control of the lion’s share of ...
East Timor calls on Australia to stop exploiting disputed oil field
By John Roberts, February 13, 2004
Long-running disagreements between Australia and East Timor over their maritime border and therefore control of Timor Sea oil and gas erupted again late last year, focusing on revenues from the Lamina...
Australian government blackmails East Timor into ratifying oil and gas deal
By Rick Kelly, March 12, 2003
The long standing plan of the Australian government to maintain control of East Timor’s oil and gas reserves reached its dénouement late last week, as the East Timorese approved the Internation...
Australia bullies East Timor over oil and gas
By John Ward and Peter Symonds, February 7, 2003
The Australian government is deliberately delaying the signing of an agreement with East Timor, known as the Timor Sea Treaty, as a means of blackmailing the small, newly independent country into conc...
Following student protests in Dili:
UN and East Timor government push for tougher police measures
By John Ward and Peter Symonds, December 20, 2002
In the wake of violent protests in the capital of Dili on December 4, the East Timorese government, backed by UN officials, has attempted to deflect attention from the country’s mounting social ...
Social discontent boils over in East Timor protests
By John Ward and Peter Symonds, December 6, 2002
At least two people have been killed and more than 20 injured in clashes with police and soldiers during two days of protests and rioting by students and unemployed youth in the East Timorese capital ...
Australia bullies "independent" East Timor over oil and gas
By Mike Head, May 30, 2002
Even as East Timor was declared to be the world’s newest independent nation on May 20, a bitter conflict was underway behind the scenes over Australia’s insistence on retaining the lion&rs...
