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DIRECTIONAL RELATIONSHIP · 2026

Australia → Timor-Leste

This score represents Australia's relationship toward Timor-Leste. The reverse direction is calculated separately and shown alongside it.

AUS → TLS+7Mixed76% evidence confidenceDocumented bilateral evidence
TLS → AUS+7MixedSymmetric current scores
SIX-COMPONENT MODEL

Current component scores

Component values run from −100 to +100 and are combined with the published weights.

Security0

No reviewed evidence met this component’s scoring threshold.

Why this score?

The model starts every component at zero. No documented condition or active event currently changes this one.

Coverage gap: The reviewed record does not activate an additional frozen security rule for the 2015 baseline.

Diplomacy+10

1 documented factor produce the +10 diplomacy assessment.

Why this score?
  1. +10Australia and Timor-Leste settle their maritime boundary
    Active event · 2018

    The parties signed a permanent maritime-boundary treaty through UNCLOS conciliation, resolving the delimitation dispute on an agreed basis.

Coverage gap: The reviewed record does not activate an additional frozen bilateral diplomatic rule for the 2015 baseline.

Economic0

No reviewed evidence met this component’s scoring threshold.

Why this score?

The model starts every component at zero. No documented condition or active event currently changes this one.

Coverage gap: Reporter-side 2015 goods trade does not reach a frozen material-trade threshold, or is unavailable.

Disputes+15

2 documented factors produce the +15 disputes assessment.

Why this score?
  1. -50Unresolved Timor Sea maritime boundary
    Baseline rule · 2015

    Australia and Timor-Leste had not yet agreed their permanent maritime boundary in the 2015 baseline; the later treaty expressly settled that delimitation dispute.

  2. +65Australia and Timor-Leste settle their maritime boundary
    Active event · 2018

    The parties signed a permanent maritime-boundary treaty through UNCLOS conciliation, resolving the delimitation dispute on an agreed basis.

Societal0

No reviewed evidence met this component’s scoring threshold.

Why this score?

The model starts every component at zero. No documented condition or active event currently changes this one.

Coverage gap: The reviewed record does not establish the exceptional or strong exchange required by a frozen societal rule.

CHANGE SINCE 2015

-8 in 2015 → +7 in 2026

The change is generated from sourced events and frozen scoring rules, not retrospective editorial adjustment.

ACTIVE EVIDENCE

Events affecting the current score

+12

Australia and Timor-Leste settle their maritime boundary

The parties signed a permanent maritime-boundary treaty through UNCLOS conciliation, resolving the delimitation dispute on an agreed basis.

Interpret with care

This analytical score is not an objective fact, endorsement or prediction. Confidence reflects evidence coverage, while incomplete or unavailable observations remain explicit. Differences below 5 points are treated as practical ties rather than a meaningful ranking.

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