Waiting them out. Australia’s Greater Sunrise Gas heist

There was a 60 -year search to get Timor’s oil and gas. An invasion did not understand. The espionage did not understand. Now Australia is waiting for them. Old senator Rex Patrick Reports from the streets of the language.

In 1969, Australia gave five discovery permission to the Portuguese Timor coast of the sea bed in the Timor Sea, the coast of Australia. Portugal officially protested, but the events surpassed something.

In April 1974, a political revolution in Lisbon led to the end of the Portugal’s colonial empire. The independence of the Portuguese Timor was now on the agenda. In the seas between Australia and Timor, the Australian Foreign Ministry was evaluated by paying attention to comprehensive oil and gas reserves, “Indonesians would probably be ready to accept the same reconciliation in the negotiations completed on the border of the sea bed between the two countries. Such a compromise will be more acceptable to us than the current Portuguese position.. “

Sea border

Let’s stop for a moment and let’s look at the sea boundaries and oil.

By referring to Figure 1, it can be seen in 1972 that Australia negotiated a seaside border that is much closer to Indonesia and Indonesia than Australia. Indonesia has accepted it in exchange for Australian support in the international arena, which provides control of the waters between thousands of islands in Indonesia.

In a remarkable way, or perhaps in a remarkable way, Corallina, Laminaria, Kitan, Bayu-Addan, and more sunrise oil and gas deposits were on the Australian side of the sea base.

The problem, if international norms have been adopted, an independent Timor will demand an average line limit that capsulates all the oil and gas that Australia wants.

Infestation

Portuguese Timor’s seizure of Indonesia kept his defenders in the department.

On September 6, 1974, Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam met with the President of Indonesian President Suharto and proposed support to include Timor in Indonesia, even though Timoresese was their own and appointed his desired fate.

On December 7, 1975, Indonesia launched a full -scale military invasion of Timor. Australian diplomats protected Indonesia from criticism in the United Nations.

In the next decade, 204,000 Timoric people, who were surprisingly 31% of the Eastern Timor population, died by resisting famine, cholera, tuberculosis and Indonesians.

Australia did not support the decisions of the UN General Assembly in favor of East Timor’s self-determination between 1976-1981. In February 1979, he gave Australia. Jure He recognized the control of Indonesia on the region and negotiated through the Eastern Timor of Indonesia and the sea base border, but Indonesia refused to accept the same compromise as in the 1972 Naval Bed Treaty. Ten -year negotiations emerged in 1989, which resulted in the Timor GAP Treaty and allowed both countries to benefit from the energy resources of the Timor Sea.

Do not mind the human disaster given to Timorlu; The focus was on the sea or rather lying under the sea.

No independent referee

Indonesia agreed to give a referendum to Timor: Indonesia, under the tension of the Asian financial crisis and after the resignation of President Suharto: they may choose special autonomy in Indonesia or independence. The referendum was held on August 30, 1999 under the auspices of the United Nations. 78.5% of registered voters preferred independence from Indonesia.

Under international pressure, it withdrew from Timor after destroying most of the Indonesian infrastructure and deporting 250,000 East Timori on the Western Timor border. The UN Security Council adopted its date of 1264 on September 15, 1999, giving a multinational power authority to recover peace and security at the Eastern Timor, led by the Australian General Peter Cosgrove.

While the Australian troops did a great job in Timor, our diplomats and spies were busy dealing with an oil and gas robbery.

Timor-Leste would be an independent state on May 20, 2002. Knowing that a new maritime border agreement should be negotiated, Australia’s claim to maintain its claim on Timor oil and gas reserves was weak, the Australian Court of Justice and the Naval Border Judiciary on the Naval Law of the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal were withdrawn.

There was no independent referee for Timor to leave.

Aware of Timor’s financial estimation, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer set Timoresese as a ‘negotiation’ mood ‘.We don’t have to benefit from sources. They can stay there for 20, 40, 50 years. We are very difficult. If you give information to the media, we will not care. Let me give you a training on politics – not luck. “

And now for some spying

Later, Australia, who agreed to negotiate in good faith, had the Timoresese negotiation team a spy of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (Asis). As a charitable project, Asis has established listening devices in Timor’s ministry offices. The espionage operation provided confidential access to Australia to Timor’s internal negotiations and negotiating positions.

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The Timorese negotiation team, which was removed from the fruit, signed an agreement on specific maritime regulations in the Timor Sea in 2006 (CMATS Treaty).

As of 2007, the finally approved regulation saw that Australia received 10% of oil and gas revenues (purple area in Figure 2) and 50% of the income generated (marked in Figure 2).

Figure 2 – CMATS RESULT (LARGE DAYRAMMED)

In Darwin, facilities were built to liquefy the gas from the fields for export to North Asia.

Caught

However, the fraudulent behavior of Australia emerged. The Timor government learned the espionage and took it to the permanent arbitration court in the Australian The Hague to invalidate the treaty.

After six objections for compulsory reconciliation, Australia was forced with a combination of legal and diplomatic pressure to re-negotiate and sign a new treaty between the democratic Timor-Leste, which determines the sea borders in the Timor Sea.

The new Treaty entered into force on August 30, 2019 and the gas was processed in Darwin, 80% of Timor-Leste’s larger Sunrise income or 70% of the income if the gas is processed in Timor.

Tasi mane

Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has a vision to revive his country – processing gas on the southern coast. His ‘Tasi Mane’ project is direct technical, engineering, project, transportation, logistics and administrative affairs, as well as teachers, health workers, catering and baristas, including indirect work and economic activity.

Figure 3 – Author Rex Patrick and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao

A brave plan with the support of Timor people.

But that’s not what the Australian government wants. Australia’s priorities are elsewhere. Energy hungry oil in exchange for other economic interaction and goodness wants to be a reliable supplier for exhausted Japan, South Korea, China and Singapore. It delivers online and exports to the North West Shelf and Ichthys projects, as well as others.

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Santos’s Barossa area is next, but the company needs to hide CO2 from a place to fulfill its carbon reduction obligations. This is somewhere Timor’s girlfriend. Timorlu is not willing to do this, but there may be no other option. Instead, their choice is to use a well -established advanced oil recovery technique to remove the gas that still exist in the field.

However, even though larger sunrise is not produced, there is no money to the Timorese Treasury. Australia’s delays on the larger sunrise turn into a forced cash plan for carbon.

An unwanted report

In April 2024, Australia and Timor appointed a company, Wooden Australia, To take into account the larger sunrise processing options. Until the report was delivered to both governments, he worked behind the stage to agree on a production sharing contract, oil mining code and financial regime.

When report The negotiations that suggest that the better economic result was to commit more sunrise in Timor gradually turned into. Downloader’s ‘Wait forever strategy’ entered the game again.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has been working to bring Timor’s resources back to Australia for sixty years. Why stop now?

Timorlu pain!

China and national security stupidity

In the meantime, as Timor struggles economically, China stepped into the plate, and presents the infrastructure (highways and ports) as Timor help and belt and road strategy.

None of the Timorians I talked about in the streets of the language do not want China’s help with Australia’s help. But the second is not an offer.

In 2019, the Australian government actively forced the closure of a secure Timor Sea Oil extraction operation on the southern coast of Timor (Something that Timor does not know, although the pumped area exceeded the sea border). Australia did not want a exemplary building confidence and ability to be under Tasi Mane.

Aside from, Australia had a North Endeavor vessel, the only ship in the process of scrapping it, which could give Timor a realistic way for the dealership.

Meanwhile, the Chinese fill the gap. In 2024, the Australian government collected the taxpayers’ money to give the USA to the USA for a gift to the USA, while the Chinese navy ships were withdrawn for rest and recreation in the Language.

With the help of US President Trump, the USAID, China is trying to fill the development aid and finally decides to move away if the Chinese decides to move away, trying to create a Timor addiction that will lead to disaster for Timor. China knows that, so is Timor.

At the near future, Timor may have no choice but to ‘proposing’ to host a Chinese air force base without income from the larger sunrise; Australia will not receive US submarines, but China can buy a fixed aircraft carrier from Darwin at 700 km.

Well done dfat. What fools!

Rex Patrick is a former senator of South Australia and a submarine in the armed forces. Rex, known as the best fight against corruption and transparency crusaders, “Transparent warrior. “