DreamOn wrote "if you come out and do some quality outreach, something gracious, something noble, then you may be pleasantly surprised"

And in fact I've already helped friends achieve that, in 2005 the US republican Congress added a section 1115 to that year's US Foreign Relations Authorization bill that required then US Sec. of State Rice to produce a report on both the conditions inside West Papua, and a report on the 1969 "Act of Free Choice". And around 2008 or 2009 the Vanuatu Parliament unanimously supported a motion directing the government to transmit (fax) notice of a motion to the UN Secretary General that would ask UN members to vote on whether the International Court of Justice should be allowed to provide it's opinion on the legality of the 1962 "New York Agreement" and associated UN General Assembly resolution 1752 (XVII).

Of course in 2005 SBY swore public outrage and promised he would have the US Senate revoke section 1115, and in response to the Vanuatu parliament a California Energy company funded by Indonesia offered the PM & Finance Minister a deal to open a fuel depot project on one of Vanuatu's islands. The request by the US Congress was removed, and the request by the Vanuatu Parliament was ignored.

Both Washington and Vanuatu have governments that Australians and others can appeal to, but not Canberra. Jakarta's mouth piece in Washington is the US Indonesia Society, a corporate lobby group posing as a independent expert. But Canberra has created a government Department whose job is to promote & maintain Jakarta's agenda in Australia, the Australia Indonesia Institute. This is one of many examples of a denial of civil rights in Australia, rights which our State & Federal governments refuse to admit have been squashed.

Interesting *Daeron* though some citations would add further credibility to your assertions and I for one would certainly be interested to read some of the primary source material.

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All things said and done, one solution to these sorts of issues is to simply not vote for either blue or red, but rather say *Green* or others who commit to a reasonable alternative to the issues that you have raised.