Edison Waromi, Prime Minister of the West Papua Transitional Government, and Parliamentary Chair Buchtar Tabuni, were each awarded the 2021 Eureka Australia Medal during a moving ceremony on 3 December 2021 at the historic site of Bakery Hill in Ballarat…
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Guest Speaker Raki Ap, ULMWP Representative for Europe The West Papua Transitional Government launched its Green State during the 2021 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, and in his presentation to the FRWP Open Day in Docklands, Raki Ap contextualised the…
Indonesia is not the future of West Papua A comprehensive report of the situation in West Papua between April and July 2021 by Markus Haluk, ULMWP Executive in West Papua Markus Haluk (2021) Indonesia Is Not The Future of West…
The FRWP Open Day on 19 September 2021 featured Dr Greg Poulgrain talking about his 2020 book JFK vs Allen Dulles : Battleground Indonesia; Prime Minister Edison Waromi from the West Papua Transitional Government interviewed by Peter Woods in a…
On 14 August 2021, the City of Moreland joined two other Victorian Councils, Yarra Council and Ballarat Council, in recognising and honouring the principle of self-determination for West Papua with its planting of a Hammarskjöld Memorial Tree for West Papua…
The West Papua FRWP Womens Office in Docklands is hosting an HISTORIC FILM SERIES, and the first film, on 27 June 2021, is Mark Worth’s powerful 2003 documentary Land of the Morning Star. Published by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, this…
Who is George Ivan Smith, and what did he do for West Papua? George Ivan Smith AO (1915-1995) was a remarkable Australian, the son of a prison governor and educated in rural Australia at Goulbourn and Bathurst high schools. He…
The West Papua (FRWP) Open Day in Docklands 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,…
Yabon, Jacob Rumbiak, and Dr Albert Kaliele, Aboriginal Welcome Ceremony, Yumi Wantaim Seminar, Wurrundjeri Park, Melbourne, 15-16 September 2001 (Kel Dummett) In the highlands of New Guinea, on the western rim of Melanesia, pigs are central to religious and social…
