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...would put all the petroleum reserves on Timor's side. Australia argues that the contours of the seabed are unique. "We have successfully established that the natural promulgation of the continent extends to the Timor Trough," says an Australian official involved in the talks last month in Dili. In Canberra's view, that trough should be the dividing line...
...monitor local media and produce transcripts. If a Labor frontbencher is interviewed on Perth radio, there's a good chance that within a few hours the relevant minister will be responding to the remarks; if a prominent commentator criticizes the government, that will also be passed back to Canberra and duly noted. Less surreptitiously, the Government Members Secretariat in Parliament House churns out material for coalition M.P.s and grooms them for the media...
...Australia's position during official talks that are meant to build a permanent legal fence in the sea between his abundant nation and its impoverished near neighbor. East Timor's lead negotiator, Peter Galbraith, is unmoved by the Australian's argument, but now he's roused by a Canberra official's refrain of "I wish I had a dime for every time I've heard that one" in response to Dili's case. Galbraith asks a woman on his team to hand a 25? coin to the opposing side in a dispute that is worth perhaps 50 billion times that...
...they do it? There's a good vibe in Canberra and Washington. The relationship between the two national leaders could hardly be better: both support free trade in principle, and they fought as allies in Afghanistan and Iraq. Congress had given Bush fast-track approval to pursue FTAs; Howard saw a chance to prise open the U.S. agricultural market. This FTA (following agreements between Australia and New Zealand and between the U.S. and Canada) is only the third between developed nations. Many minor FTAs are being written that have not required the toil and sweat of the AUSFTA...
...many Laboristas, Latham has revitalized his party - and politics. The buzz he generates goes beyond Canberra. Ordinary folk are curious. Latham has even got Prime Minister John Howard's pulse racing - something his predecessors rarely managed over the past eight years - thanks to Labor's turnaround in opinion polls and Latham's honeymoon with the press. A general election is due this year, and if it is fought on leadership and experience, voters will be asked to choose between a fresh-faced father of two young boys and a Prime Minister at the height of his powers who has reached...