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...acting Prime Minister, looked the part: serious and steady. He traversed the country, taking the TV cameras from the mines of Broken Hill to the illegal foreign fishing vessels smoldering in Darwin harbor. Despite the Budget, a lot of non-Treasury business has been dominating the news: East Timor's troubles, the death spiral of remote Aboriginal communities, nuclear power and uranium enrichment. Custodian Costello slotted right in. Voters, and the Liberal party, are getting a little taste of life after Howard and a carefully managed introduction to his natural successor. So far-ignoring Labor's hysterics in Parliament...
PAPUA, an Indonesian province, has had a simmering separatist movement for 30 years. But its model, East Timor, has struggled since gaining sovereignty...
Following the dismissal of 600 soldiers from East Timor's defense force in March, protests in Dili late last month erupted in the worst violence since the 1999 independence referendum, leaving several people dead and the capital on edge. The nation's Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner visited Australia last week and talked to Time's Lisa Clausen about the quest for lasting peace, a career change and pumpkin farming...
...What about claims of a nascent insurgency? I don't believe that. To fight an insurgency in Timor you need profound motivations-otherwise you don't last long. But the situation is still very tense. The population of Dili is stressed. There are all sorts of rumors...
...What are Timor's chances of securing lasting peace and democracy? Very, very good. We will go through hiccups like this time and again until finally we consolidate in a few years. Look at Singapore and Malaysia 50 years ago, with their sectarian violence. And such violence has cost thousands of lives in Indonesia. We just have to stay focused and not lose hope...