Jessie’s House of Needles, and West Papua’s Green State

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The FRWP Open Day on 14 March 2021 featured journalist John Algate talking about writing 'Jessie's House of Needles', Jessie being a missionary-nurse from Melbourne who worked in the highlands of West Papua for thirty-five years, from 1966 to 2001. The event also included Jacob Rumbiak's introduction of West Papua's Green State; Fiji-Australian author Bernie Goldstein's campaign for one of the contributors to her book (Children of the 12 Tribes) to be released from prison in Jakarta; and Dr Joe Toscano explaining how the West Papua Rent Collective is vital for the ongoing work of the office in Docklands.

Listing West Papua with UN Decolonisation Committee

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Deakin University academic on palm oil in West Papua

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A presentation by American anthropologist Dr Eben Kirksey to FRWP Office in Docklands on 8 April 2018, which included drone-footage of the huge area of the Marind tribes' land that is being deforested for palm oil plantation. Eben explained its devastating effect on the fragile environment, and demonstrated how palm-oil based products is mostly consumed by populations in non-palm-oil producing countries.
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