Talk:Australia–East Timor spying scandal

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Outcome of Court of Arbitration

Page 15 of the Australian Financial Review, Monday 4th September 2017 has an article "Sunrise gas stirred by deal on sea borders" that needs to be considered in this article as it gives details about the resolution of the dispute. Alex Sims (talk) 00:16, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is a very nasty event. But an EU trade delegation travelling to the US for the then TTIP negotiations also discovered they had been bugged. For the Timor-Leste event, Australia should probably come clean and declare they were obligated, as part of 5 eyes, to ensure there would not be a surveillance free space in Timor-Leste. The fact they still practice omerta now, after it has all come out and part of the deal were reversed, is really, really nasty in my view. 2001:8003:A928:800:605C:9910:65CA:2430 (talk) 07:35, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This case demonstrates that there is no separation of powers in Australia, when the executive can muzzle people and suppress information this way plus declare superinjunctions (e.g. a book about Sydney Inc./corruption). Every time an authoritarian act occurs, national security is mentioned and everybody shuts up? 'National security' looks more like a euphemism for war preparation every day.

They also rave on about 'international rules based order'but when actions are to be checked if they complied, the executive muzzles. The longer the muzzles stay on, the less the population identifies with the country which could be damaging. 2001:8003:AC60:1400:B4AF:7347:9DE2:9B0B (talk) 00:33, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]