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

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

the United Nations (UN) sponsored Act of Free Choice which sanctioned the Indonesian occupation of West Papua consisted of 1 022 West Papuans hand-picked by Indonesia and pressured to support integration, and

(ii)

a recent Newspoll found that 77 per cent of Australians were in favour of the people of West Papua having ‘the right to self determination, that is, the right to determine their own political future, including the option of independence’; and

(b)

calls on the Government to make representations to the UN Secretary-General regarding the Act of Free Choice requesting that he establish an inquiry into the validity of the process.

Question put.