WHEN Australian workmen turned up with an enormous crane to renovate and reinforce the office of the East Timor prime minister in early 2004, they looked like Paul Hogan in his bridge-painting days as they donned "stubby" shorts and ragged shirts with sleeves cut off. The workers from north Queensland construction firm JJ McDonald & Sons had been commissioned by the Australian government to renovate the prime minister's office and build a new "situation room" inside the roof cavity of the building known as the Palacio do Governo (Palace of Government).
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