Frontrunner for East Timor presidency offers Australia hope on oil

By Lindsay Murdoch
Updated March 20 2017 - 8:43am, first published 8:36am
Fretilin the country's largest political party, staged its closing campaign rally in Dili on the 17th March. Photo:Wayne Lovell/Timor Photography Photo: Wayne Lovell
Fretilin the country's largest political party, staged its closing campaign rally in Dili on the 17th March. Photo:Wayne Lovell/Timor Photography Photo: Wayne Lovell

Dili: The front-runner in East Timor's presidential elections on Monday has offered new hope for a breakthrough in a bitter stand-off with Australia over $40 billion in oil and gas fields.

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