{"id":725,"date":"2026-03-19T20:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d9df8a63a94881441ca9a18f494b259d"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","slug":"australia-to-hand-timor-billions-in-gas-revenue-to-counter-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Australia to hand Timor billions in gas revenue to counter Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/australia-to-hand-timor-billions-in-gas-revenue-to-counter-beijing.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Australia will donate at least a third of the revenue it would receive from the Greater Sunrise gas development to Timor-Leste as part of a new partnership with the South-East Asian nation, as the government looks to counter China\u2019s influence in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made the announcement alongside his Timor-Leste counterpart Xanana Gusmao as the pair signed a joint declaration committing to further economic, defence and cultural ties.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"dcd014aaf645bbda-amendmentNotice\" readability=\"7\"><strong class=\"dcd014aaf645bbda-amendmentType\">clarification<\/strong> <!-- -->\u2014<\/p>\n<div class=\"dcd014aaf645bbda-amendment\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>An earlier version of this article said the partnership included a commitment that the gas from Greater Sunrise would be processed in the Timor-Leste. It has been amended to show that the partnership acknowledges Timor-Leste\u2019s commitment to onshore processing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia will donate at least a third of the revenue it would receive from the Greater Sunrise gas development to Timor-Leste as part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}