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The Bougainville Minister for Independence Implementation, Ezekiel Massatt, has launched an attack this week on Australia, calling it a "coward when it comes to the Bougainville independence issue".
Ron May has spent more than 50 years working in and on Papua New Guinea, including 32 years at The Australian National University (ANU), where he was one of the forces behind the establishment of State, Society and Governance in Melanesia, now the Department of Pacific Affairs.
Event description Please join us as we launch the West Papua Project at the University of Wollongong for a seminar about West Papua at the United Nations now About this Event In 1969, the United Nations was mandated to oversee the Act of Free Choice in West Papua, a plebiscite intended to gauge whether indigenous West Papuans wanted independence or continued integration with Indonesia. The referendum, in which Indonesian security forces coerced West Papuans to vote against independence, was a sham, but the United Nations turned a blind eye to the injustice. Since that time, West Papu...