Kerry Nettle (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

over the past decade, the Indigenous people of Chile, Mapuche, have been in conflict with the Chilean Government over the use of Indigenous lands for forestry and hydroelectric development,

(ii)

the criminalisation of their campaign for equal rights under Chile’s terrorism laws has been criticised by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of Indigenous people, and

(iii)

currently four Mapuche political prisoners are on their eighth week of a hunger strike and in a serious medical condition; and

(b)

calls on the Government to raise this matter with the Chilean Government requesting that they:

(i)

carry out negotiations with the Mapuche political prisoners and their legal representatives to end the hunger strike, and

(ii)

implement an independent review of the cases in which Mapuche people have been tried and convicted on terrorism charges, in order to verify observance of due process, and, if necessary, order a new trial with full respect for fair trial guarantees.

Question negatived.