The people of the West Papuan nation have now waited 59 years since their planned independence from colonisation, when the West Papuan national flag was first raised. Labour DLP commemorates that first flag raising, and today extends our ongoing support…
Document outlawed by Indonesia was ‘smuggled from one end of Papua to the other’ and signed by 70% of the population. Australia must support the pleas of the West Papuans on the floor of the United Nations. The DLP is…
The 1st of December, marks West Papua’s original independence day when the Morning Star flag was first raised in 1961. The Dutch had prepared West Papua for independence. However, within months, the Indonesian military invaded – determined to include the…
The Democratic Labour Party has continued its call from 2016 that the Australian Government show support for the plight of the people of West Papua by establishing a West Papuan Solidarity Day, including a public raising of the Morning Star Flag on…
In the previous West Papua post, I provided an overview of the history of West Papua and the atrocities that have been inflicted upon Papuans by the Indonesians. In this post I will talk more about why Australia has been…
Any decent Australian would be shocked if they knew what was happening on our country’s doorstep. Massacres, tortures, the burning of villages, rapes, economic and political marginalisation, cultural suppression. All being inflicted upon people in a land situated only…