SWINDLE is a story of Big Oil set against the drama of Timor-Leste’s liberation and its aftermath. Fossil fuel corporations and their Australian government partners steal billions from the poorest nation in SE Asia but a spy turned whistleblower exposes them. A secret trial is planned to punish the spy and his lawyer. The government’s case is thin, based on distortions of history that don’t hold up to scrutiny.
SWINDLE looks behind the recent Witness K/Bernard Collaery prosecutions in Canberra to discover the massive theft of Timor-Leste’s major resource and the lies, cover-ups and human rights abuse that accompanied it.