The Australia West Papua Association and supporters raised the Morning Star flag at Leichhardt Town Hall to show solidarity with West Papuan’s struggle for self-determination. Isaac Nellist reports.

Later, the province was renamed Irian Jaya. Since then, there has been an ongoing call for independence by the people of West Papua, led by the Free Papua Movement (OPM), in an effort to assert ...

Papua and West Papua. It is separate from Papua New Guinea, which secured independence from Australia in 1975. Papuan rebels ...

Supporters of West Papua independence hold the Morning Star flag outside the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra this week. Source: SBS News West Papuans around Australia have raised their Morning Star ...

Benny Wenda fears the unrest in West Papua could become 'another Timor Leste', referencing the country's bloody struggle for independence Source: SBS ...

The demonstrations marked the anniversary of West Papua declaring independence from Dutch rule in 1961, which was followed by a contentious UN-sanctioned referendum in 1969 that brought Papua ...