カテゴリー: Timor-Leste
Former president says Australia and Timor-Leste should put the bugging scandal behind themThe former Timor-Leste president José Ramos-Horta has urged Australia to show wisdom, honesty and compassion by stopping the unfair prosecution of Witness K and B…
With not enough workers to pick the upcoming harvest, Australia faces potential food shortages, and its farmers face economic devastationAs Victoria’s Covid-19 outbreak threatens to spiral out of control and beyond its borders, Australia faces another …
Charges against Bernard Collaery and his retired Asis agent client confirm the government has few regrets about an exploitative exercise against a friendly neighbourIn the first week of January 2019, a private jet landed at Presidente Nicolau Lobato In…
Taur Matan Ruak offers to step down as southeast Asian nation faces new political instabilityThe prime minister of Timor-Leste has sent a letter of resignation to the president, after the collapse of a coalition supporting him in parliament, plunging t…
Senate inquiry told Australia should also drop prosecution of Witness K and Bernard CollaeryAustralia’s negotiations with Timor-Leste should be the subject of a royal commission, and the government should return $5bn unfairly taken from the impoverishe…
The deadly virus wreaking havoc in Asia has been detected in Timor-Leste, just 680km north of DarwinOne month ago a particularly virulent strain of African swine fever – which has been wreaking havoc in Asia since it was detected in China last year and…
Former Timor Leste president Xanana Gusmão hugs BJ Habibie, whose actions paved the way to independenceThe first president of Timor Leste has paid a touching visit to the bedside of the Indonesian president who granted the region a referendum on indepe…
Centre Alliance’s Rex Patrick wants to overturn the decisions that limit Australia’s exposure to international courtsThe crossbench senator Rex Patrick will push to fix a historic wrong stemming from the “shameful” treatment of Timor-Leste during oil a…
Some day, I hope to visit the country with my grandparents, whose belief in independence was always unshakableIn my family, the thought of Timor always lingered in the air.At birthday dinners, or Easter or Christmas with the cousins (like all Timorese,…
After nearly 300 years of colonial rule, Portugal withdrew from East Timor in 1975, sparking a bitter rivalry between local groups that ended in Fretilin forces declaring East Timor independent. Indonesia invaded nine days later, beginning an brutal re…
Documents reveal ‘muted’ attempts to convince Indonesian officials to allow free vote to proceedThe US government knew for months that Indonesia’s military was supporting and arming militias in East Timor in the lead-up to the 1999 independence referen…