Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

  (a)   notes that:

     (i)   in the week beginning 16 October 2011 the West Papuan people held their third Papuan National Congress in Jayapura,

     (ii)   the congress was a peaceful gathering of thousands of delegates from all over West Papua, and

     (iii)   the congress elected leaders to speak for the Papuan people;

  (b)   condemns the violent crackdown that left seven Papuans dead and many more injured;

  (c)   calls for an immediate end to violence in the area;

  (d)   recognises the rights of the people of West Papua to freely travel, assemble and discuss their own future; and

  (e)   calls for the humane treatment and timely release of those arrested.