SHAKEDOWN:
Australia’s Grab for Timor Oil Paul Cleary
in conversation  | In 2000 one of the poorest nations on earth began negotiations with Australia over rights to the lucrative oil and gas resources of the Timor Sea. With the revenue from the oil and gas fields, the young democracy of East Timor would have a chance to secure its economic future. If Australia would allow it
In an ironic twist of fate, East Timor found that Australia, the country which had delivered freedom to the Timorese by intervening against Indonesia's bloody attacks in 1999, was now trying to deny it a fair share of the profits
This is the inside story of Australia's attempts to bully East Timor out of a promising future in the Timor Sea oil dispute. Paul Cleary, a former East Timor government adviser, gives a gripping insider's account of the six years of bruising negotiations between Australia and East Timor that followed the independence ballot. |
In this compelling insight into Australia's international operations, Cleary exposes the heroes and villains who emerged in a one-hundred-billion-dollar shakedown Paul Cleary began his career as an Australian journalist reporting on economic and social policy, and on Southeast Asia. After serving a decade in Australia's national press gallery he was awarded a Chevening Fellowship by the UK Foreign Office, and after completing studies in London was appointed by the World Bank as an advisor to the Prime Minister of East Timor on the Timor Sea oil and gas negotiations
Wednesday July 25
5:00 for 5:15pm
Lecture Room LG 28
Napier Building
North Terrace
University of Adelaide
Hosted by the Australian Institute for International Affairs,
the Australia-East Timor Friendship Association, and Imprints Bookshop |
