Rex Patrick launches bid to make government reveal long-secret cabinet documents on Timor-Leste

Documents likely to reveal Australia's strategy for bartering on Timor Sea maritime boundary prior to the bugging operation revealed by Witness K and Bernard Collaery

The government will be forced to defend its decision to withhold long-secret cabinet documents about negotiations with Timor-Leste in the years prior to the controversial bugging operation revealed by Witness K and Bernard Collaery.

Independent senator Rex Patrick has launched proceedings in the administrative appeals tribunal to overturn a government decision not to release archived cabinet documents setting out Australia's strategy for bartering with its impoverished ally on the Timor Sea maritime boundary.