[Peakoil] Tuesday, 4 March 2008: Oil related seminar @ ANU: Rights, Poverty & Timor Sea Oil

[Ben Davies]

Hi all,

Found a oil/Australian energy related seminar on the ANU billboard of events:

From: http://billboard.anu.edu.au/event_view.asp?id=23128

Seminar: Rights, Poverty & Timor Sea Oil

In 2000 one of the poorest nations on earth began negotiations with Australia over rights to the lucrative oil and gas resources of the Timor Sea. With the revenue from the oil and gas fields, the young democracy of East Timor would have a chance to secure its economic future - if Australia would allow it. In an ironic twist of fate, East Timor found that Australia, the country which had delivered freedom to the Timorese by intervening against Indonesia's bloody attacks in 1999, was now trying to deny it a fair share of the profits.

Paul Cleary speaks on his recent book Shakedown: Australia's Grab for Timor Oil, which presents the inside story of Australia's attempts to bully East Timor out of a promising future in the Timor Sea oil dispute. A former East Timor government adviser, Cleary has a unique insight to the six years of bruising negotiations between Australia and East Timor that followed the independence ballot. His compelling book exposes the heroes and villains who emerged in a one-hundred-billion-dollar shakedown.
Speaker/Host: 	Mr Paul Cleary
Venue: 	Seminar Room B, HW Arndt Building (25A)
Date: 	Tuesday, 4 March 2008
Time: 	12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Enquiries: 	Matthew Allen on 6125 6575