tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865792164550550384.post5069876989683248761..comments2024-01-05T03:39:19.759+09:00Comments on La'o Hamutuk: Filling gaps in "Taxing Times"Timor-Leste Institute for Development Monitoring and Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199752710172148153noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865792164550550384.post-39246501960477073912013-06-12T03:10:59.553+09:002013-06-12T03:10:59.553+09:00Impressive post.Really very useful for me. please ...Impressive post.Really very useful for me. please provide more tips. Keep continue.community resources in educationhttp://www.gamae.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865792164550550384.post-28243838993463349802012-10-12T14:31:04.757+09:002012-10-12T14:31:04.757+09:00Hi Charlie, I got a little carried away with respo...Hi Charlie, I got a little carried away with responding to the response to the story and included you with people not critiquing the Tasi Mane developmenet plans - that's just plain silly and plainly wrong. From memory you did make solid criticisms of the plans on the south coast along the lines of what you have submitted and put on your website. Apologies for suggesting otherwise. <br />Best, PeterPeter Cronaunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865792164550550384.post-34875352959513536342012-10-10T16:01:03.821+09:002012-10-10T16:01:03.821+09:00Thanks, Peter, for your comment. We didn't mea...Thanks, Peter, for your comment. We didn't mean to "blame" Four Corners for the behavior of politicians (or oil companies), but were simply trying to add context and background that the program didn't have space for. And, of course, we agree wholeheartedly with the Timor-Leste Government and Four Corners in supporting Timor-Leste's efforts to ensure that oil companies pay their full tax obligations.<br /><br />I don't have a recording of the interview you did with me, but I'd be surprised if I didn't express doubts about the Tasi Mane project. La'o Hamutuk has been consistent on this for years -- including in a submission we gave to Timor-Leste's Parliament this morning (English translation at <b><a rel="nofollow">http://www.laohamutuk.org/econ/OR12/SubLHOR2012en.pdf</a></b>). For more comprehensive information on Tasi Mane, see <b><a rel="nofollow">http://www.laohamutuk.org/Oil/TasiMane/11TasiMane.htm</a></b>.<br /><br />Why not post longer versions of some of your other interviews on the ABC/4Corners website, as you did with the interviews with Xanana Gusmao and Emilia Pires?<br /><br />-- CharlieTimor-Leste Institute for Development Monitoring and Analysishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16199752710172148153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865792164550550384.post-52206840498096188342012-10-10T14:49:23.739+09:002012-10-10T14:49:23.739+09:00COMMENT: Four Corners didn't include criticism...COMMENT: Four Corners didn't include criticisms by Mari Alkatiri, Hans Beck and Charlie Scheiner of the Tasi Mane development plans or of the TL government's action to pursue petroleum companies' unpaid taxes, in "Taxing Times", that's quite true. However we didn't need to edit them out, as this article cheekily suggests, because none of these three 'alternative voices' expressed criticisms of these matters. Of course these voices would have all sorts of criticisms of other aspects of Timor's progress. So it is worth remembering that the focus of the 4Corners report was petroleum companies and their unpaid taxes and unresolved pipeline development plans. The story was not aiming to be an overall situation report on every element of Timorese society, government, business, environment, corruption, politics, budgets, and more. That was never going to be possible in a single report, and was never the aim.<br />Four Corners also has not ignored Australia's theft of Timor's oil as the article suggests - we did a entire program on that very topic in a story entitled 'Rich man, poor man'. Take a look, it's linked on the 'Taxing Timor' resources web page. La'o Hamutuk argues that Timor Leste's leaders should "base their decisions on objective, comprehensive, long-term, fact-based analysis, and not on self-serving agendas or unrealizable fantasies". Seems reasonable; but it would be irresponsible if Four Corners was blamed if they do not.Peter Cronaunoreply@blogger.com