Don’t suppose it matters much who’s in the chair
when dithering, as such, on keeping the CMATS
split square - like what’s needed to keep them or
us sincere. Should we explain there’s $40b in oil
and gas reserves at back of this
Okay, we may have been gathering intelligence,
who’s so naive as to not dip in a hand, ’n sneak
a bit - but it is not spying; that is slimy stuff - we
peak only into affairs where threat is to National
security - which Timorese don’t happen to be
But this is a bilateral treaty on - ‘certain maritime
arrangements in the Timor Sea’, a mouthful, yes
one with disproportionate profits to be gleaned -
and under the UN aegis we’re cautioned to be a
good neighbour, or be thought of badly
So we’ve taken a smack on the hand for ASIO
seizing East Timorese documents when raiding
a lawyer’s office in Canberra, he’s on their legal
team, but UN’s top court’s ruled we don’t have
to return the stuff, just keep it under wraps
And that’s considered victory for an underhand
act of undiplomatic savagery using raw powers
to force the Timorous beasties to see things as
we do - or wear the consequences of losing an
open and shut case to ‘de jure' spying
© 4 March 2014, I. D. Carswell
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