In the case of Indonesia it is not past wrongs but the ones that are occurring now, today the 8th October 2013, and to people who look to us for help.

Australia has blood on its hypocritical hands.

The mistake viv-a-vis Australia that both the Timor people and the West Papuans made was to support Australia against the Japanese in WW II, had they done the same as the Indonesians then their fate may have been different.

Main mining interest is Freeport-McMoRan, mainly American owned and the caller of the shots. Profit for 2010: $ 4.336 billion.

Why should our tax money go to support murdering, torturing terrorists?
is Mise,
I suppose the Indonesians will respond in kind for as long as it takes for the West papuans to stop shooting up police stations.
If you're asking Jakarta to pull out of West Papua then you must also ask London to pull out of Australia.
ps. I do not support money given as foreign aid. It should be in the form of australian manufactured goods.

Good God, Individual, is it the Sassenach that are doing all that shooting in Western Sydney?

Beggorah! Wonders will never cease.

"Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua:
Application of the Law of Genocide to the
History of Indonesian Control"

continues at http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/Intellectual_Life/West_Papua_final_report.pd

Is Mise,
Well, When I was there it wasn't Germans jumping off the back of a truck with shotguns & storming a Police station killing 6 officers.
It's not Germans going apecrap on beetle nut & hacking up people.

Is Mise,
Come to think of it how much do you know of the doings of the Marind, the Kia Kia, the tugeri etc. All your everyday nice caring & politcally correct head hunters only two generations ago. You don't think it would only take a couple of sips of Sopi or Segero for some of them to revert in couple of seconds ?

Having studied anthropology and New Guinea in particular I do know quite a bit about the place, I even know about the menstruating men!
I also know about the Slobbo tribe in Sydney going troppo every weekend and causing mayhem because of the booze.

But that is beside the point, our money is subsidizing Indonesian terrorism and I'm not the least bit amazed that the Papuans hit back at the murderers in their midst.