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Good morning and welcome to our rolling news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer and I’m going to run through a few of the best breaking overnight stories before my colleague Amy Remeikis cranks up the computer.
Australia’s murky involvement in Timor-Leste is dragged into the daylight again today by our exclusive lead story, which reveals how the government is trying to “censor” an official history in case its embarrasses officials or diplomats. “What we’re talking about here is issues that amount to censorship,” says one leading historian of the Department of Foreign Affairs’ refusal to sanction part of an official history of military operations in Timor. Despite being cleared by other government agencies, Dfat wants no mention of Asis spies having bugged the Timorese cabinet room during negotiations over Timor Gap oil resources in 2004 – the same revelation that led to the criminal prosecution of a former Asis operative known as Witness K, and his lawyer, Bernard Collaery.
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