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...Customs' national marine unit. Under Commanding Officer Mark Cummins, Botany Bay's sailors are near the end of a three-week tour of duty and are putting the Bay Class vessel through exercises to address mechanical problems. At 0930, Cummins receives a call from the National Monitoring Centre in Canberra, asking Botany Bay to respond to a sighting by a Coastwatch surveillance plane of a suspected foreign fishing vessel (FFV) in Australian waters. Coastwatch has sent Canberra images of the boat showing crew retrieving longlines off the Duncan Islands group, 30 nautical mi. (55 km) north-west of Thursday Island...
...Latham sees himself as an Australian everyman; a working fellow who likes sharing jokes with his mates. He arrived in Canberra in 1994 encased in a V-neck jumper when all around him Keating Labor staffers wore superfine suits. A mere 18 months ago, Latham was in the outer at the Sydney Cricket Ground, plastic beer cup in hand, watching an Ashes Test. Howard was there, too - in the Australian Cricket Board suite sipping wine with the chairman. Latham is more complex than the blokey caricature. It's true he's distinctly of his class, neighborhood and generation...
...from the Xujiahui district, this requirement has led to doubled electricity consumption, not only from the lights themselves but from the air-conditioning needed during the day to cool the overheated building. All in all, Shanghai's much-vaunted nocturnal skyline?100 times brighter than the Australian capital of Canberra's, crow local urban planners?consumes the same amount of electricity as the city receives from the Three Gorges Dam, now in its first stage of operation. And, as the vanguard of all things cool in China, Shanghai has inspired similarly wasteful lighting schemes in other metropolises such as Tianjin...
...give East Timor 90% [of the JPDA] ? and now we are told that we are thieves and cheats," he says. "They obviously don't regard the relationship with Australia as highly as I thought." In the past four years, the country has spent $170 million on aid and development; Canberra sent 5,700 troops and led the U.N.'s INTERFET force in 1999 after East Timor's vote for nationhood triggered a killing spree by pro-Indonesian militias...
...boundary talks will resume in Canberra in September. "Australia is refusing to negotiate on the main issue-the location of the lateral boundaries," says Galbraith. "There's a significant gap at the moment, and closing that gap will take a long time," counters Australia's Downer. East Timor's Alkatiri says his country is open to a "creative solution" but would call on "mutual friends" if the talks fail. Downer says Australia is open to fresh ideas: "We have heard a lot of abuse and criticism, but in terms of constructive solutions, let's see them...