Timorese vote with 'gas shadow' over their future
Most of the 750,000 East Timorese registered to vote in elections on Saturday won't go to the polls thinking about a spot in the ocean 300 kilometres north of Darwin.
Lindsay Murdoch is a three-time winner of the Walkley Award, Australia's top award for journalistic excellence. Lindsay is a former correspondent based in Singapore, Jakarta and Darwin. In 1999 he covered the tumultuous events in East Timor, and in 2003 he covered the Iraq war while embedded with US Marines.
Most of the 750,000 East Timorese registered to vote in elections on Saturday won't go to the polls thinking about a spot in the ocean 300 kilometres north of Darwin.
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