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Tabular Data - Issues for Australia
| International Disputes : |
The 1999 maritime delimitation established partial maritime boundaries with East Timor over part of the Timor Gap but temporary resource-sharing agreements over an unreconciled area grant Australia 90% share of exploited gas reserves and hamper creation of a southern maritime boundary with Indonesia; Australia asserts a territorial claim to Antarctica and to its continental shelf. |
| Illicit Drugs : |
Tasmania is one of the world's major suppliers of licit opiate products; government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate. |
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