May 21st 2021
Letter-writing and Email Campaign, 2021. In August 2021, a delegation of West Papuans and Australian activists will be travelling to Canberra. The delegation will lobby Federal Members of Parliament to i) Persuade Indonesia to allow the UN fact-finding mission to…
December 08th 2017
FRWP Womens Office welcomes all art aficionados and West Papua’s friends to the 2017 Sampari Art Exhibition in the Australian Catholic University Art Gallery in Melbourne. The 2017 Sampari Art Exhibition and Sale for West Papua opens at 6pm on…
December 08th 2016 8/12/20 6:00 pm
On 8 December 2016, six students from Melbourne, Monash and Deakin Universities debated West Papua’s status as an independent state. The exhibition debate was hosted by the Federal Republic of West Papua (FRWP) in the Australia Catholic University during the…
December 08th 2017
In the garden of an old wooden house in Droop Street Footscray, silky chickens roost in a profusion of green vegetables. A glaxy of artistic activists live in the house, including banjo-playing vocalist Kiah Dennerstein and partner Lachie Keller who…
April 03rd 2016 3/30/16 1:00 pm - 3/30/16 5:00 pm
Smorgesbord of talk, song, video and delicious food West Papua is on the move, please join us for the first Open Day for 2016 at our Docklands office. It promises to be spectacular, graced with: two former ADF officers: Major Barbara…
April 03rd 2016
Dept. Foreign Affairs, Immigration, Trade FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF WEST PAPUA GROUND-FLOOR BOARDROOM Rear, 838 Collins St, Docklands, Victoria 1PM DAPUR SAMPARI LUNCH (Papua Kitchen) for West Papua Rent Collective (visitors welcome) 2PM REV. ROBERT STRINGER (video-interview) Joy and Pain of my…
December 06th 2015 3/30/16 6:00 pm - 3/30/16 8:00 pm
On 6 December 2015, a host of Melbourne poets assembled in the ACU Art Gallery for West Papua, including Di Cousens, Randall Stephens, Lana Woolf, Sheree Stewart, Kylie Supski, Izzy Brown, Sixta Kareni, Harley Hefford, Robbie Smith. Audio-recordings of five…
December 13th 2015 1/29/16 1:00 pm - 1/29/16 4:00 pm
CHRISTMAS PARTY West Papua Rent Collective ACU ART GALLERY 26 Brunswick St Fitzroy Sunday 13 December 2015 : 1-4pm ‘This book is riveting. There’s pathos, there’s heroism, there’s the victory of good over evil, all the sorts of things that…
December 12th 2015 3/1/16 2:00 pm - 3/1/16 4:00 pm
“Why did Amungme elders put border markers all the way around the Ertzberg mountain of ore in 1967 during the exploration phase? Because that was a sacred area. Indonesian law considers the deep jungle to be empty, to have no…
December 05th 2015 3/2/16 2:00 pm - 3/2/16 4:00 pm
IN CONVERSATION WITH BRUCE PASCOE ABOUT WEST PAPUA AND HIS POLITICAL THRILLER ‘RUBY-EYED COUCAL’ ACU Art Gallery 26 Brunswick St, Fitzroy Saturday 5 December 2015 : 22-4pm During the Sampari Art Exhibition for West Papua (ACU Art Gallery, 4-13 December),…
December 04th 2015 6/17/17 6:00 pm - 6/17/17 8:00 pm
A rich array of art and artforms, opening at the ACU ART GALLERY, 26 Brunswick St, Fitzroy (Melbourne) at 6pm on Friday 4 December 2015 BABUAN MIRINO, Convener, FRWP Womens Office DR PENELOPE TROTTER, ACU lecturer, Fine Arts feature writer,…
December 04th 2015
A WELSH ARTIST, BRONWEN BENDER, has entered four spectacular wire-portraits of West Papuan political prisoners in the Sampari Art Exhibition for West Papua, which opens in the Australian Catholic University Gallery in Fitzroy (Melbourne) on 4 December 2015. Bender illuminates…
December 03rd 2015 1/29/16 9:00 am - 1/29/16 8:00 pm
The Women’s Office of the Federal Republic of West Papua invites Visual, Media, Sculpture, and Craft Artists to apply to have their work exhibited at the Australian Catholic University Gallery in Fitzroy (Victoria) from 4th- 13th December 2015. The exhibition…
September 20th 2015 3/4/16 9:30 am
At the 9.30am service on Sunday 20 September 2015, the Congregation of St Luke’s Uniting Church, led by Rev. James Douglas, is prayerfully reflecting on West Papua’s recent success with the Melanesian Spearhead Group in Honiara (Solomon Islands) and the…
September 13th 2015 3/2/16 12:00 pm - 3/2/16 3:00 pm
LUNCH DAPUR SAMPARI cooking Papuan Vegetarian GUEST SPEAKER LANCE COLLINS Great powers, history and the fate of small nations POWERPOINT REPORT LOUISE BYRNE West Papua wins international diplomatic status in Melanesian Spearhead Group SKYPE REPORT JACOB RUMBIAK, Minister for Foreign…
August 23rd 2015 3/2/16 2:00 pm - 3/2/16 4:00 pm
WEST PAPUA WOMEN: ACTIVISM & RESISTANCE, SUNDAY 23 AUGUST 2015: 2-4pm West Papuan women are the silent backbone of West Papua’s historic struggle for freedom and self-determination, and this seminar is an effort to match some of their faces with…
