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Oz-tak-lihat (Australia Doesn’t See)

November 22, 2011 – 11:06 am

Recent films like Strange Birds in Paradise challenge Australia’s silence on West Papua

Posted in arts and culture | Also tagged ABC, Documentary, Indonesia Calling, John Hughes | Comments Off

Papua’s Fallen Leaders

October 14, 2010 – 10:39 am

Anyone who emerges as a leader of the West Papuan people is setting out on a dangerous path

Posted in features | Also tagged activism, annexation, Anthropology, Arnold Ap, assassination, democracy, Dr Thomas Wainggai, hostages, Indonesia, Kelly Kwalik, local radio, mining, protest, security forces, strike, subversion, Suharto, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Theys Hijo Eluay, United States | Comments (2)

Death in Freeport

September 10, 2009 – 12:49 pm

21st Century colonialism flourishes in West Papua writes Edmund McWilliam

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Arena Magazine issue 101 August-September 2009, colonialism, Edmund McWilliam, Freeport, Indonesia, Suharto, United Nations | Comments Off

Dying to Live

February 2, 2003 – 9:27 pm

Chris Richards Is the war on terror in West Papua an expression of institutionalised racism?

Posted in features | Also tagged Chris Richards, humanitarianism, Indonesian military, New Internationalist, TNI | Comments Off

Sanap Wantaim: Melanesian West Papua

December 2, 2002 – 8:36 am

Louise Byrne Australians need to reassess their understanding of West Papuans and their chosen path to freedom

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Anglican, Catholic bishop, Morning Star Corner, sacrifice | Comments Off

Dislocations – Salman Rushdie and Fiji

August 2, 2000 – 6:36 am

John Hinkson

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Aboriginal people, Asia, autonomy, China, colonialism, democracy, domination, England, ethnic cleansing, Europe, Fiji, globalisation, Han, Idi Amin, immigrants, imperialism, Indians, indigenous cultures, Indonesia, media, Melanesians, migrants, migration, multiculturalism, Salman Rushdie, sustainability, Turkic Ulghurs, United States, Zimbabwe | Comments Off

From Colony to Global Prize

June 2, 2000 – 4:38 pm

George Aditjondro Timor Loro Sa’e Under a New Wave of Economic Transformation

Posted in features | Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, agriculture, aid workers, annexation, Asia, Australian Defence Forces, banking, Cambodia, capitalism, cartel, Catholicism, coffee, coffee plantations, collaboration, colonialism, construction, corruption, deportation, East Timor, East Timor independence, economy, energy management, environmental policy, environmentalists, fertility control techniques, forced deportation, genocide, George Aditjondro, grants, guerillas, health workers, hotels, human rights violations, humanitarian aid, indigenous people, Indonesia, inequality, information technology, International Monetary Fund (IMF), investment, Japan, land appropriation, loans, Malaysia, militia, mining, monopoly, nationalism, NGO, Nobel Prize, North Korea, Northern Territory, oil, oligopoly, peacekeeping, political elite, political prisoners, Portugal, post-colonial states, prostitution, protesters, reconstruction, referendum, self-determination, Singapore, South Korea, squatters, state property, Suharto, Taiwan, teachers, telecommunication, Timor, tourism, trade unions, United Nations (UN), United States, uranium, Western Australia, World Bank, Xanana Gusmao | Comments Off

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