McGrath, Kim. Crossing the Line: Australia’s Secret History in the Timor Sea

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Crossing the Line: Australia’s Secret History in the Timor Sea
by Kim McGrath.

Redback Quarterly (imprint of Schwartz Publishing), Carlton, 2017.
First Edition paperback.

“We can mock Donald Trump for his references to “alternative facts”, but the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs has been spinning an “alternative history” over the last fifty years. An alternative history, in which the potential oil wealth of the Timor Sea north of the median line between Australia and Timor — and we are talking about an area that contains potentially billions of dollars of oil and gas — supposedly had no influence on Australia’s foreign policy towards our neighbours to the north.” – Kim McGrath, launch speech, published in Crikey, 30 August 2017.

Condition: Near fine.