Crossing the Line: Australia’s Secret History in the Timor Sea
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (943 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MUE7QU6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 110 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.With explosive new research and access to never-before- seen documents, Kim McGrath tells the story of Australia’s secret agenda in the Timor Sea, exposing the ruthlessness of successive governments. A timely and definitive book.’ —José Ramos-Horta‘Kim McGrath has trawled the national archives to produce the smoking gun on Australia’s callous betrayal of the people who supported our commandos in World War II, and on the immoral and unlawful appropriation of their oil.’ —Paul ClearyKim McGrath has been published in the Monthly and has long experience working in government and policy development. Instead, our government colluded with Indonesia to secure more favourable maritime boundaries.Even today, Australia claims resources that, by international law, should belong to its neighbour – a young country still recovering from catastrophe and in desperate need of income. Australia did nothing to stop Indonesia’s devasta