Senator BROWN (11:07 AM) —I will ask the minister about recent negotiations with Indonesia on the boundaries. For clarification for the committee, I ask: has Australia moved towards an agreement with Indonesia on confirming the 1972 seabed boundary on either side of the Timor Gap? If it is negotiating or has so moved, what relevance does it see for East Timor on both ends of the so-called gap and for its interests, which are very clearly compromised by the 1972 seabed boundary negotiated between the then Australian government and the Suharto regime, against, I might add, the wishes of Portugal?