Senate debates

Tuesday, 7 February 2006

Questions without Notice

West Papua

2:30 pm

Photo of Kerry NettleKerry Nettle (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank the minister for agreeing to take that question on notice to Minister Downer. I might note that it was West Papua, not PNG, to which the question related. I thank her also for the comments on the asylum seekers. Could the minister also answer whether the government has done anything in response to the studies released by Sydney University and Yale Law School that the repression of the West Papuans by the Indonesian military may fit within the definition of genocide as stipulated in international law.

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