Steve Bracks

In a series of recent posts on The Interpreter (here, here and here), Stephen Grenville has suggested that if Australia agreed to enter into maritime boundary negotiations with Timor-Leste and, if necessary, allow an international umpire to determine a maritime boundary in the Timor Sea, Timor-Leste would somehow be worse off. This is a strange assertion given the facts. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea gives every coastal state a right to 200 nautical mile Exclusive Eco