LL, you certainly have very little respect for the law, or history
"howard and downers behaviour (using security services for the benefit of a private company) was and is a disgrace"
And is only alleged at the moment.
As for the history, research the Greater Sunrise Field and the desire of East Timor to renegotiate the boundary, following international convention at the median point between Australia and East Timor. The negotiations in the past, and to come, are between the two sovereign states concerned, and will allocate production proportionally to that which will be arbitrated in the Hague, to each country, NOT a private company. Who Australia decides to issue exploration permits to is a different matter altogether.
I am beginning to wonder if "spying" is "in" this summer, or an attempt to bolster eEast Timor's case.
Thought you would like this LL:
"As it sought to renegotiate the treaty, the East Timorese government informed then prime minister Julia Gillard of the alleged bugging by ASIS. "We offered Gillard the opportunity to tear the treaty up and renegotiate it, but she refused," Mr Collarey said."
alleged my ass. is that why brandis had all of that material removed ? 
is that why the whistleblower was told to shut it ?
what is gillard supposed to do years after the fact ? hmmm ? and how so you think it would have gone down ?
your diff needs bananas .
