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Since 1969 @dfat has exploited complicit and unwitting prime ministers & ministers from both sides of politics to defraud #TimorLeste of its oil & gas resource. DFAT's made the bed we now sadly have to lie in. All Aussies should read this thread! #auspol theguardian.com/world/2022/aug…
1969: Australia granted 5 petroleum exploration permits over parts of the seabed that lay closer to Portuguese-Timor than Australia … and then refused to talk to Portugal about a sea boundary, even after their 1970 formal protest about Australia's Timor Sea claim. #auspol 
1975 - 1999: Alone in the world, and with the aim of accessing #TimorLeste’s oil & gas resources, Australia encouraged and lent support to Indonesia’s invasion of Timor, whose citizens preferred independence. 204,000 Timorese died opposing Indonesia’s occupation. #auspol
