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Timor Gap
The Timor Gap is an area of the Timor Sea between Australia and Timor-Leste. The area has been the subject of disputes over maritime boundaries, as well as the rights to extract and take revenue from its substantial petroleum reserves. Australia and Portugal initially disputed the area when the latter governed East Timor. After the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, a joint development zone was created between Australia and Indonesia, which largely persisted after Timor-Leste achieved independence and took Indonesia's place in its administration. The maritime boundary between Australia and Timor-Leste was settled in 2018. The Timor Gap is part of the Australia–Timor-Leste border, Australia–Indonesia border, and Indonesia–Timor-Leste border. It is 480 km (300 statute miles) wide. History Background Australia and Indonesia negotiated their maritime border in the Timor Sea in 1972 based on the extent of Australia's continental shelf. Portugal, which governed colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timor Gap Map
Timor (, , ) is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, in the north of the Timor Sea. The island is divided between the sovereign states of Timor-Leste in the eastern part and Indonesia in the western part. The Indonesian part, known as West Timor, constitutes part of the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Within West Timor lies an exclave of Timor-Leste called Oecusse District. The island covers an area of . The name is a variant of ''timur'', Malay for "east"; it is so called because it lies at the eastern end of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Mainland Australia is less than 500 km away, separated by the Timor Sea. Language, ethnic groups and religion Anthropologists identify eleven distinct ethno-linguistic groups in Timor. The largest are the Atoni of western Timor and the Tetum of central and eastern Timor. Most indigenous Timorese languages belong to the Timor–Babar branch of the Austronesian languages spoken throughout the Indonesian archipela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UNTAET
The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET, ), was a United Nations mission in East Timor that aimed to solve the decades-long East Timorese crisis in the area occupied by Indonesian military. UNTAET provided an interim civil administration and a peacekeeping mission in the territory of East Timor, from its establishment on 25 October 1999, until its independence on 20 May 2002, following the outcome of the East Timor Special Autonomy Referendum. The transitional administration was established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1272 in 1999. A rarity for United Nations peacekeeping missions, UNTAET involved the United Nations directly administering the territory of East Timor. The mission's responsibilities included providing a peacekeeping force to maintain security and order; facilitating and co-ordinating relief assistance to the East Timorese; facilitating emergency rehabilitation of physical infrastructure; administering East Timo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Territorial Disputes Of Australia
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Oil Field Disputes
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La'o Hamutuk
La'o Hamutuk ( Tetum for "walking together"), or the Timor-Leste Institute for Development Monitoring and Analysis, is an East Timorese non-governmental organisation (NGO). It is based on Avenida Dom Ricardo da Silva, , in the national capital, Dili. The organisation is a progressive think tank collective that analyzes and reports on development issues, rights and processes, including the actions of international institutions and the government of East Timor. Its work is published in Tetum and in English. History La'o Hamutuk was founded during the UN administration of East Timor in 2000 by local and foreign human rights activists and activists who had campaigned for East Timor's independence from Indonesia. It has since followed East Timor's politics and monitored the country's various institutions. La'o Hamutuk does not accept grants from donors who may have a significant interest in East Timor. So, for example, it is not funded by the United Nations and its organizations, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dollars & Sense
''Dollars & Sense'' is a magazine focusing on economics from a progressive perspective, published by Dollars & Sense, Inc, which also publishes textbooks in the same genre. ''Dollars & Sense'' describes itself as publishing "economic news and analysis, reports on economic justice activism, primers on economic topics, and critiques of the mainstream media's coverage of the economy." Dollars & Sense. Published since 1974 (it was originally a monthly; now it is bimonthly), it is edited by a of economists, journalists, and activists committed to the ideals of and |
Laminaria Oil Field
''Northern Endeavour'' is a defunct FPSO permanently moored in the Timor Sea, northwest of Darwin. It produced oil from the Laminaria and Corallina fields from 1999 to 2019. Development Under Northern Territory Exploration Permit AC/P8, a joint venture between Woodside Energy (operator – 50%), BHP (25%) and Shell (25%) discovered the Laminaria field in October 1994 with Corallina discovered northwest of Laminaria in December 1995. The joint venture worked to develop the fields via an FPSO and subsea infrastructure. The contract for construction of the hull of the FPSO was awarded to Samsung Heavy Industries of South Korea in September 1996, and the contract was subsequently assigned to the FPSO consortium Kvaerner-SBM in January 1997 for the fit-out. The design, procurement, construction and installation of the subsea facilities was contracted to a joint venture between Coflexip Stena Offshore and JP Kenny in October 1996. The joint venture was granted Production Lic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joint Standing Committee On Treaties
The Parliament of Australia (officially the Parliament of the Commonwealth and also known as the Federal Parliament) is the federal legislature of Australia. It consists of three elements: the monarch of Australia (represented by the governor-general), the Senate (the upper house), and the House of Representatives (the lower house).''Australian Constitution's 1– via Austlii. The Australian Parliament combines elements from the British Westminster system, in which the party or coalition with a majority in the lower house is entitled to form a government, and the United States Congress, which affords equal representation to each of the states, and scrutinises legislation before it can be signed into law. The upper house, the Senate, consists of 76 members: twelve for each state, and two for each of the self-governing territories. Senators are elected using the proportional system and as a result, the chamber features a multitude of parties vying for power. The governing party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Downer
Alexander John Gosse Downer (born 9 September 1951) is an Australian former politician and diplomat who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 1995, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2018. Downer was born in Adelaide, the son of Sir Alick Downer and the grandson of Sir John Downer. After periods working for the Bank of New South Wales and with the diplomatic service, he was appointed executive director of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in 1983. He also served as an advisor to Liberal leaders Malcolm Fraser and Andrew Peacock. Downer was elected to parliament at the 1984 federal election, winning the Division of Mayo in South Australia. He was added to the opposition frontbench in 1987. After the Coalition lost the 1993 election, John Hewson's position as leader of the Liberal Party came into question. Downer successfully challenged him for the leadership in May 1994, thus becoming Lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty On Certain Maritime Arrangements In The Timor Sea
Officially called the Treaty between Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste on Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea (CMATS), the treaty provides for the equal distribution of revenue derived from the disputed Greater Sunrise oil and gas field between Australia and East Timor. The field is located in the Timor Gap where Australia and East Timor have overlapping claims over the continental shelf or seabed. Prior to the treaty, East Timor would only have received about 18% of the revenue from the field. CMATS also puts on hold the right by both countries to claim sovereign rights, discuss maritime boundaries or engage in any legal process in relation to maritime boundaries or territorial jurisdiction for 50 years which is the duration the treaty is in effect. CMATS is one of three treaties concerning the exploitation of gas and petroleum in the Timor Gap and is to be "read together" with the other two treaties, namely the Timor Sea Treaty of 2002 and the Sunri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunrise International Unitization Agreement
This agreement is officially known as the Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste relating to the Unitisation of the Sunrise and Troubadour Fields.Full text of agreement available from the Australasian Legal Information Institute's Australian Treaty Series database a/ref> The Sunrise International Unitisation Agreement (Sunrise IUA) was made to enable the exploitation of the Sunrise and Troubador petroleum and gas fields in the Timor Sea, together known as the Greater Sunrise field. The Greater Sunrise field straddles the border between the joint petroleum development area (JPDA) established under the Timor Sea Treaty and Australian territorial waters as determined by the 1972 seabed boundary agreement between Australia and Indonesia. Unitisation of the field would enable it to be treated as one as far as exploitation, regulation, revenue taxation, management and other purposes are concerned, giving certainty to i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timor Sea Treaty
Formally known as the Timor Sea Treaty between the Government of East Timor and the Government of Australia was signed between Australia and East Timor in Dili, East Timor on 20 May 2002, the day East Timor attained its independence from United Nations rule, for joint petroleum exploration of the Timor Sea by the two countries. The signatories of the treaty were then Australian prime minister John Howard and his East Timorese counterpart at that time Mari Alkatiri. The treaty entered into force on 2 April 2003, following an exchange of diplomatic notes and was backdated to 20 May 2002. The treaty was to run for 30 years from the day it came into force or when a seabed boundary could be established, whichever came earlier. However, the subsequent signing of the Treaty on Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea (CMATS) in 2007, the period of validity for the Timor Sea Treaty was extended to 2057, when the validity of CMATS also ends. The Timor Sea Treaty provides for the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
