Timor-Leste: Treaty Confirms Australia Profited from Timor-Leste Oil and Gas, Rights Groups Say

Mar 7, 2018 | Helen Davidson and Christopher Knaus, Guardian
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Australia has received billions of dollars in revenue from contested oil and gas fields which a new border treaty officially confirms belonged to Timor-Leste, civil society groups have claimed. On Wednesday the two nations signed a treaty agreeing a permanent maritime border to close the Timor Gap, and establishing a “special regime” area for the sharing of an untapped, multibillion-dollar gas field in the Timor Sea.