EIN News: East Timor Australia News

East Timor: Hard rock, soft water

5 Jul 2008 04:30 GMT

... in Singapore for ISN Security Watch (04/07/08) East Timor signed an agreement with the Chinese government ... its boats in the first place. The Timorese government has been requesting assistance from Australia ...

Welcome to Sydney, Your Holiness. Care to exorcise a politician or two?

5 Jul 2008 04:30 GMT

... Lordship led, with unconscious hilarity, by The Australian's Janet Albrechtsen. To hear her tell it, ... Echo. To the newly independent Government of East Timor he was a swaggering bully. Slurpy as ...

Regrets at giant's passing

4 Jul 2008 16:29 GMT

... action in dispatching peacekeeping troops to guarantee East Timor's independence and in gaining US, UN and ... of guts. After the disruption of East Timorese independence, Downer drove the re-establishment of good ...

Gen Y set to fight next war

4 Jul 2008 16:29 GMT

... WHEN Peter Leahy joined the Australian Army 37 years ago, our soldiers were ... Iraq and Afghanistan and stabilisation missions in East Timor and Solomon Islands. Under Leahy's leadership the ...

Research revealing Australia to be the fattest country in the world, coupled with suggestions of government-subsidised gym memberships, is music to the ears of those in the health and fitness industries.

4 Jul 2008 15:30 GMT

... and supplier of strength training equipment in Australia. Operating out of a 2000sq m factory ... for use by Australian soldiers based in East Timor. Founder and part-owner Manfred Maier said the ...

Fitness industry healthy indeed

4 Jul 2008 15:30 GMT

Assault on innocence

4 Jul 2008 15:28 GMT

... UN diplomats from across the world, including Australia, pushed for an end to the persistent ... women in one study reported trouble. In East Timor, official statistics in 2002 revealed that nearly ...

Greg Sheridan: Regrets at giant's passing

4 Jul 2008 15:11 GMT

Downer to retire

4 Jul 2008 06:57 GMT

... in Adelaide on Thursday. Mr Downer was Australia's longest serving foreign minister after holding that ... Downer said helping free the people of East Timor was the greatest achievement in his political ...

Former foreign minister Alexander Downer, Australia's longest-serving, quits politics

4 Jul 2008 04:36 GMT

... ADELAIDE, Australia - Alexander Downer announced Thursday he is ... to Iraq and Afghanistan as well as East Timor and the Solomon Islands. Appointed immediately after ...

MEO Australia Allies with RDI

4 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT

... wells in the company's three offshore West Australian permits (WA-359-P, WA-360-P, and WA-361-P) to earn ... a successful listing of RDI. In its Timor Sea projects, and subject to Petrofac Energy ...

Vale, Alexander the not-so-great

4 Jul 2008 01:57 GMT

... claim is that the big decision on East Timor was John Howard's, not Alexander Downer's. Indeed, ... This crimps Downer's claim of ownership of Timorese independence, but it also helps exonerate him ...

Former Australia foreign minister quits politics

3 Jul 2008 16:31 GMT

... ADELAIDE, Australia - Alexander Downer announced Thursday he is ... to Iraq and Afghanistan as well as East Timor and the Solomon Islands. Appointed immediately after ...

Former Australia foreign minister quits politics

3 Jul 2008 15:54 GMT

... 07/03/2008 11:27:26 AM EDT

Downer says successor should be selected by Mayo members

3 Jul 2008 15:31 GMT

... warrior Alexander Downer are about to become Australia's very own Odd Couple? Nick Bolkus seems ... in the Australian-led international mission to stabilise East Timor. Mr Downer says if any of his ...