It’s been a 60-year quest to take Timor’s oil and gas. An invasion didn’t get it. Spying didn’t get it. So now Australia is waiting them out. Former senator Rex Patrick reports from the streets of Dili.In 1969, Australia granted five exploration permits for petroleum over parts of the seabed in the Timor Sea that lay closer to the coast of Portuguese Timor than to the coast of Australia. Portugal formally protested, but events overtook things.
Waiting them out. Australia’s Greater Sunrise Gas heistby Rex Patrick