Troubled Waters
Duration: 00:54:00 In 1979 Australia expanded its territorial borders by 200 nautical miles to take advantage of the rich oil and gas deposits in the Timor Sea. For Centuries before, fishermen from the island of Roti in Indonesia were fishing for their livelihood in these same waters. Today they are...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English |
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McGowan, Jo-Anne
2001
Australia |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:8d05b810-a785-4075-aa28-a6a43cf6662e |
| Summary: | Duration: 00:54:00
In 1979 Australia expanded its territorial borders by 200 nautical miles to take advantage of the rich oil and gas deposits in the Timor Sea. For Centuries before, fishermen from the island of Roti in Indonesia were fishing for their livelihood in these same waters. Today they are regularly arrested for trespassing a border they cannot see, and are sent to gail for increasingly longer periods with no recourse to legal representation. They return home in debts many cannot foresee escaping from in their own lifetime. "Troubled Waters" investigates both the human and financial costs of Australia's current border protection policies and the story of a people evicted from their seas. |
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| Published: | 2001 |