As the new year began, bleak as it was on the economic, political and environmental levels, there was no inkling of the COVID-19 epidemic threat and what it would do to the global and Australian economies.
January and February 2020 have been a time of rapid political change in Timor-Leste. First the shock defeat of the 2020 Budget in the Parliament on January 17. Next the collapse of the government coalition, AMP, and a public statement by six allies on the formation of a new majority coalition on February 22, led by Xanana Gusmão’s National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT).
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