There are no doubt many examples, but to illustrate the point is the plight of West Papua which is the 5% of the Australian continent under Indonesian rule with the support of the Freeport and Bechtel and related US corporations benefiting from the world's largest mine.

For 40 years our media has been silent about the colonisation of our neighbours, because our journalist are too lazy to research a story, and the editors believe Australians are too weak minded to understand the story. The only reason we know about Iraq and Afghanistan is because foreign media broke the news first.

How many stories have been kept secret for decades because our education system has been turning out witness Australian media too afraid to introduce new subjects to the public?

Got ourselves a field of pumpkins here.

More strawmen than you can poke a stick at.

Western Papua has been claimed by Indonesia since the 1950s. Freeport mine was started in 1970s. Bechtel's operation started in 1980.

Indonesian annexation of western New Guinea was against the spirit of the 1962 agreement giving Indonesia administrative control of the territory. The US acquiesed because the alternative would have been a war with the Soviet Union in the area. The Soviet Union were arming Indonesian forces at the time and actively encouraged the Indonesian takeover.

The actions of the Indonesians in West New Guinea have been unsavoury, but they were widely reported in the Australian press at the time and is one of the reasons for the poor relationship Australia has with Indonesia.

Agronomist,

We agree on this one.

Much of our population is now ignorant, and like the journalists incapable of check facts themselves.
Indonesia moved into West Papua in May 1963 as arranged in the 1962 New York Agreement; the Agreement was drafted by Robert Kennedy at request of President Kennedy.

Kennedy was told that it was to save America from communism, by McGeorge Bundy who Kennedy had appointed as National Security Adviser on the advise of Freeport director Robert A Lovett...

The Soviet Union was NOT about to invade Australia, Indonesia or the US over West Papua, but the Freeport corporation had been trying to establish it's claim to the Timika area since 1959 before the governments found out about the mineral wealth which the Rockefeller directors of Freeport had known about since 1936 when Jean Dozy discovered the minerals. Dozy was working for NNGPM but 60% of NNGPM was owned by Standard Oil (i.e. Rockefellers). It became urgent in 1959 to claim the site, and Robert Lovett was the man with enough influence to get the job done.

At wpik.org you will find an entry "White house USA 1961" and links to various SMH, NYT, and New Zealand news items from the period of West Papua's colonisation.