Conspiracy Theory Timor Gap

[CM86]

Time for a home grown conspiracy.
Not one copy/pasted from the usual American conspiracy sites.

Just posted it in another thread, the more I read about it the deeper it got. Interested to see if it can all be rejected or not.



Alexander Downer with other parliamentarians formed Bespoke Approach, which lobbied for (among others) Woodside Petroleum, which is connected to the Greater Sunrise Gas field. Of which due to our Government spying on East Timor during negotiations, they have a lot of power.

And then when all the bugging was found out... and it looked like the Government was in trouble:

The Australian lawyer Bernard Collaery, who was representing the East Timorese government in a dispute against the Australian Government over the bugging of cabinet offices during the negotiations for a petroleum and gas treaty in 2004, alleged in 2013 that two agents from the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) had raided his Canberra office and seized his electronic and paper files.[3] A key witness for the case, an unnamed retired ASIS director was also detained and passport cancelled which prevented their testimony. The whistleblower decided to testify after learning that the former Foreign Minister,Alexander Downer had become an adviser to Woodside Petroleum.[4] The passport of the whistleblower involved was still being held as of February 2016.[5]

Collaery's allegations were later confirmed by Australia's Attorney General George Brandis, who asserted that he had authorised the ASIO raids to protect Australia's national security.[6]​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia–East_Timor_spying_scandal

 

[van peebles]

This goes back to the "falcon Snowman" days when it was believed and still is by some,that the CIA using Bob Hawke got rid of Whitlams government and that the Indonesians and Aussies had made an agreement over the Timor Basin{Gap}.
The Aussies would supply infrastructure and the Indonesians Non union labour.
Once Timor Leste became independent that all went out the window as Australia and Indonesia scrambled to draw international water lines to their own benefits.
Its been in the courts ever since.

 

[CM86]

This goes back to the "falcon Snowman" days when it was believed and still is by some,that the CIA using Bob Hawke got rid of Whitlams government and that the Indonesians and Aussies had made an agreement over the Timor Basin{Gap}.
The Aussies would supply infrastructure and the Indonesians Non union labour.
Once Timor Leste became independent that all went out the window as Australia and Indonesia scrambled to draw international water lines to their own benefits.
Its been in the courts ever since.

Thanks, VP.

But I'm more thinking about it in terms of the Panama Papers.

This Woodside Petroleum was gone... it was being bought out by BHP and Shell... and finally Shell was going to absorb it, but then it was blocked and protected by Peter Costello on 'national interest'... Considering everything else they sold during Howard's era...

Anyway, since it was protected, it has gone from strength to strength with Institutional Investors becoming the majority shareholders... and the share price going from $3 to $43...

So Shell was blocked (for national interest)... but now we have no idea who really owns it... But we do know that Downer has lobbied hard for them.



These Institutional Investors are exactly the type talked about in this video.

 

[Lebbo73]

Does it surprise you if this is all true? I wonder what little graham thinks.

 

[CM86]

Does it surprise you if this is all true? I wonder what little graham thinks.

How do you mean?
Everything I've posted is true.

 

[Lebbo73]

How do you mean?
Everything I've posted is true.

Well, we are in Conspiracies section of BigFooty.

 

[CM86]

Is this not getting any hits, because everyone already knows about it and agrees with it?

Or is it because it's not a spoon fed conspiracy theory from Alex Jones, and requires some thinking?



If it's something everyone already knows all about, please let me know, because I have some questions for you, that I've not been able to find the answer to.

 

[Werewolf]

Is this not getting any hits, because everyone already knows about it and agrees with it?

Or is it because it's not a spoon fed conspiracy theory from Alex Jones, and requires some thinking?

A bit of both - our government's dealings regarding East Timor leave a lot to be desired

And for people who claim to be thinkers, conspiracy folks sure seem to rely on guidance from higher up!

Plus this sub board is pretty quiet anyway, e.g. footy conspiracies there are quite a few...

 

[Duritz]

I think it lacked aliens, for mine.