Oil under troubled water : Australia's Timor Sea intrigue / Bernard Collaery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collaery, Bernard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum reserves--Timor Sea.

Petroleum reserves.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 446 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, [2020]

Summary:

In May 2018 Bernard Collaery, a former Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory and long-term legal counsel to the government of East Timor, was charged by the Australian Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions with conspiracy to breach the Intelligence Services Act 2001. He was forbidden from talking about the charges against him, but under parliamentary privilege independent MP Andrew Wilkie revealed what has since been described as 'Australian politics' biggest scandal'.Five years earlier, after ASIO officers raided Collaery's home and office, Collaery told journalists that ASIS had been bugging the East Timorese government during negotiations over Timor Sea oil. He was about to represent East Timor; as well as calling the evidence of a former senior ASIS agent known publicly only as Witness K, at The Hague in a case against the Australian government. Oil Under Troubled Water relates the sordid history of Australian government dealings with East Timor, and how the actions of both major political parties have enriched Australia and its corporate allies at the expense of its tiny neighbour and wartime ally, one of the poorest nations in the world.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

A Note on Sources and the Limitations of Archival Research

Introduction

1 The Atlantic Charter-'Whither Thou Goest'

2 The Allies, Australia and Portuguese Timor

3 After the War-The Vision Fades

4 Australia and Portuguese Timor

5 The Australian Continental Shelf-Declaring Boundaries

6 Post-Colonial Abandonment-Australia and the Indonesian Occupation of Timor-Leste

7 Timor-Leste Edges Towards Independence

8 Transition in Timor-Leste and the Timor Gap Treaty

9 The Transitional Government Negotiates a New Treaty

10 'Independence' for Timor-Leste

11 The FALINTIL Tragedy

12 Australian Opportunism

13 Lighter Than Air-The Helium Escapes

14 A Matter for Inquiry

15 Australian Gameplay

16 Export Trade Versus Defence

17 Determining Maritime Boundaries

18 Timor-Leste Complains

19 The Universal Relevance of the Rule of Law

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522876505

0522876501

OCLC:

1493606988