Author: Christine Kearney
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christine Kearney
- 13 June 2007
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Ugly. Rapacious. Bruising and governed by the narrowest definitions of national interest. These are a few of the descriptions that spring to mind after reading this devastating portrait of Australia’s negotiations over oil and gas resources in the Timor Sea.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Christine Kearney
- 17 May 2007
Christine Kearney is a freelance writer who has worked in East Timor and Indonesia. She is currently based in Canberra.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Christine Kearney
- 22 January 2007
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Ten months after the renewed violence and lawlessness in East Timor, nobody is holding their breath for a simple resolution. It seems the dirty politicking will continue until a new order order has been established to properly replace the vacuum left when the state imploded in 1999. The first of two runner up essays in Eureka Street's Margaret Dooley Young Writers Award 2006.
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