East Timor Oil

The Spokesperson of the Government of Timor-Leste, Secretary of State Ágio Pereira, today re-confirmed the Xanana Gusmão Government’s position issued January 13, 2010; the proposed plans of Woodside and the consortium partners to pipe gas from the Greater Sunrise field to either Darwin or a floating LNG would not be approved. Pereira said “the mechanisms for negotiations regarding the exploration of the Timor Sea have all been established; these include regulator to regulator, meetings of the Joint and Sunrise Commissions and whenever needed the Ministerial Council. Woodside does not have any unilateral authority on decisions regarding the resources of Timor-Leste. Woodside’s assertions in the media are misleading the public and their shareholders.”

A PHIL GLENDINNING PUBLIC ADDRESS

The work of Edmund Rice Centre over the past 10 years has been unashamedly situated in the lives of two main groups – Indigenous Peoples and Refugees and Asylum Seekers - Indigenous People, as the first peoples, and the Refugees and Asylum Seekers as those who have come here as the last peoples. And the question has to be in both cases "What is the social reality of their lives?" .... If we look at our history, there is no doubt that the two most marginalised groups are those who were here at the start, and those that came last....