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category international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Friday June 16, 2006 20:15author by West Papua Report this post to the editors

MORE than 75 per cent of Australians support self-determination or independence for Papua, a new poll shows.

Massive Australian support for West Papua

From The Australian, 19th April 2006

MORE than 75 per cent of Australians support self-determination or independence for Papua, a new poll shows.

The Newspoll, published in The Australian newspaper today, found 76.7 per cent of respondents believed Papua should have the right to self-determination or independence.

The poll, which comes amid Indonesian anger towards Australia over the granting of visas to 42 Papuan refugees, was commissioned by businessman Ian Melrose, who has campaigned for a better deal for East Timor over oil and gas rights in the Timor Sea. Only 5.5 per cent of Australians opposed self-determination for Papua, while 17.7 per cent said they did not have an opinion on the issue or did not know.

Papuans are fighting for independence from Indonesia , saying that because they are Melanesian, their culture is completely different to that of the rest of the country.
East Timor, a former Indonesian province, won independence after the intervention of the United Nations.

see http://westpapuaaction.buz.org/latest-news.htm#1

see Kelly Newton-Wordsworth http://www.williamsriverproduce.com.au/kelly.htm

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Papua

see Daily Ireland http://dailyireland.televisual.co.uk/home.tvt?_ticket=Y...opp=1

author by blogggitpublication date Fri Aug 25, 2006 09:45author email blogggit at yahoo dot com dot auauthor address http://www.nowhiteaustralia.blogspot.com/author phone Report this post to the editors

AUSTRALIA HAS AN OVERSEAS SPOUSE QUOTA FIXED AT 30,000 A YEAR
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PHILIP RUDDOCK is now Australia's Attorney General.Philip Ruddock is also known as the "Walking Cadaver."
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The following is an article from the "Sydney Morning Herald"September, 17th, 1996.
"MIGRANT LAW MAY SEPARATE MARRIED COUPLES
The Government will cap and kill applications by Australians to bring their overseas spouses into Australia a move which would see long-term separations of married couples unless the Opposition allows through the Senate tough new measures to curb applications.
The Minister for Immigration, Mr Ruddock,said the draconian move,allowable under present law but never used in relation to spouses, would help curb huge increases in applications for spouses, some of which were shams, but others 'a fraud on Australians'.
Under present practise,applications for offshore spouses to come are allowed regardless of the quota set.Mr Ruddock wants to enforce his quota by a cap and queue regulation, making applicants after the qouta is reached to wait, possibly for months, until heading the queue for next years intake.
But in the face of Labor opposition in the Senate, he threatened to use his general cap and kill power to terminate applications made post-qouta.This would force Australians to apply again next year on equal terms with next year's applicants, causing indefinite separations.
Mr Ruddock's threat, which contradicts the Coalition's strong pro-family rhetoric but is part of a clampdown on migration numbers,was denounced by Labor's immigration spokeman, Mr Duncan Kerr, as social engineering.
The Opposition last week knocked off in the Senate one of several changes to regulations to tighten elegibility for 'preferential family' migration,available to spouses and aged parents.Mr Kerr told the Herald Labor would also disallow Mr Ruddock's 'cap and queue' regulation.
Mr Ruddock told the Herald that if people who had already applied were allowed in,the progam would overstep this year's 36,700 quota by about 13,000.Rather than allow an overshoot, he would use his general power under current law to cap and kill,unless Labor stopped trying to micro-manage his immigration program by disallowing regulations in the Senate.
Mr Kerr said that 'Australians have always exercised their own choice on who they'll marry,and I don't believe any red-blooded Australian will allow the Government to force couples to queue up to live together.Now he's saying if he can't queue them he'll cut them off.
'If you meet and marry in January,thats OK,but if you're a December bride or groom you mightn't be able to get your spouse in for years.'
Mr Ruddock said he did not regard cap and terminate as the best outcome, but if it is necessary I will be applying it.
He said Labor had maintained a steady 37,000 quota for four years,before lifting it last year to 50,000.Many people had reported partners 'walking out the door as soon as they arrive in Australia.' 'The fraud is being occasioned on Australians by people seeking to migrate,' he said.
Mr Kerr blamed the increase on the wash-up of the Tiananmen Square massacre,under which Labor granted 40,000 Chinese people refugee status.But Mr Ruddock said there rises in applications accross the board, and the percentage increase was as great in England."
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JOHN HOWARD-The Lying Rodent.John Howard wants free trade but not the free movement of people.He thinks Australias biggest assets are its sheep, coal and uranium not people.He says he has the final solution to our problems "Too many people."
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The Blacklist
"Philip Ruddock gazetted regulations when he was Australia's immigration minister[number S241 of 1997] to stop visitors from many countries coming to Australia and among them is Poland.[Israel is also on the list as well as the following countries-Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, Fiji, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mauritius, Nauru, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Samoa, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tonga, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vietnam and Yugoslavia]."
More at
http://nowhiteaustralia.blogspot.com/
And
http://www.country-liberal-party.com/pages/Let-Them-Dro....html
And
http://www.country-liberal-party.com/pages/LetThemLand.htm
And
http://www.country-liberal-party.com/pages/Child-abuse.htm

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author by aussiespublication date Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:37author address author phone Report this post to the editors

its got sweet fa to do with australia, its an indonesian issue
Its a bit like australia saying new zealand should be part of australia
the aussies left in 1975
they just want the space to erect a few more detention camps and farm em out to png

author by Tonypublication date Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It's true that some people's support of independence for West Papuais for shonky motives. However that's not the determining factor."Aussies" says it's nothing to do with Australia. But this "Australia" is an abstraction. If "Ausssies" means (mean?) that the Australian government has no rights in the matter, then yes, that's true, but if they (singular, plural?) mean that Australians can't have opinions or organise to support West Papuan independence then that is a serious mistake.
In any case, both the governing (Australian) Liberal Party (for Liberal read Tory), and the grovelling Australian Labor Party oppose independence for West Papua, in the interests of "regional stability" (meaning the stability of the various regional powers, including, of course, Australia, and Indonesia.
Support for the independence struggle in West Papua (and in Aceh) is the only principle position for the Australian left.

author by Valpublication date Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Is there a genuine independence movement in WP? Its not right to call the Indonesians who have settled there colonists. Would you call protestants in Northern Ireland colonists or planters?

 
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