WestPapuaNews:Org – AUSTRALIA A group of local activists has occupied this ALP office to demand the government act to stop the Genocide in Palestine and stop the Genocide in West Papua immediately. The Australia government have to sanction Israel and Indonesian terrorist coloniser government in West Papua. The event organised by the Anti-genocide activists occupy Lisa Chester’s office, Cnr Williamson and Myers Street on Tuesday, 9th September 2025.
WestPapuaNews.Org Israel is a coloniser in Palestine and Indonesia is a coloniser in West Papua. Both of them are illegal criminal settlers on the indigenous Palestinian land and West Papuan land which are both of the illegally annexed Palestine and West Papua which Thales Australia multinational arms factory in Bendigo makes the weaponised vehicle BUSHMASTER and now also the Strikemaster gave weapon to the Israel coloniser and Indonesia coloniser weapon to kill and slaughter innocent Palestinian and West Papuan.
These weapons are used in West Papua to displace, suppress, and murder indigenous people. Weapons by Thales are directly linked to genocide and ecocide.
Thales also deals with Israeli weapons manufacturers.
No, Lisa Chester, corporations like Thales do not ‘provide jobs’. They need workers. The net harm that Thales does to workers all over the globe far outweighs a few local salaries.
Members of the local community are occupying the office of MP Lisa Chester, calling on the Australian government to take urgent action to end its complicity in the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe of Israels genocide on Palestinians and Indonesian terrorist state genocidal on West Papuan.
The group is delivering a heartfelt letter from their mutual aid network, expressing solidarity with families in Gaza, West Papua, and urging the government to:
Impose comprehensive sanctions on Israel, Indonesian terrorists, colonial states similar to those imposed on Russia.
Embargoes on trade ties with Israel and Indonesia, including arms trade
Cut diplomatic ties, expelling the Israeli ambassador, expelling the Indonesian terrorist criminal ambassadors and recalling the Australian ambassador in Israel and Indonesia
A Humanitarian Call
With international human rights organizations warning of famine, forced displacement, and mass civilian casualties, the community says Australia must urgently act in line with its legal and moral obligations to save the future of the Palestinian and West Papuan.
We need to ensure that Australia’s defense industry follows international court rulings and aligns with global human rights laws – preventing Australian- made weapons or parts from enabling violence anywhere in the world, specifically to the Israel coloniser and Indonesia coloniser.
Quotes
“Every day that our government remains silent, it compounds the suffering of Palestinians who are facing unimaginable loss and trauma”
~ Marion Brook a spokesperson from Mutual Aid Market Central Vic, AEU Member, Kindergarten Teacher
“We believe in the principle of solidarity – that the safety of every child, every family matters. It is unquestionable that our government continues to trade arms and hasn’t called for any comprehensive sanctions on the genocidal regime of the Israeli government and Indonesia terrorist state genocidal regime in West Papua”
~Meera a spokesperson from Mutual Aid Market and ASU member
“It is shameful that Australia is manufacturing F-35 bomber parts — including the doors that open to drop bombs on civilians in Gaza. Every time those doors open, lives are destroyed. Our government cannot pretend to have clean hands while Australian- made parts are being used in this genocide. We demand an immediate end to this complicity in war crimes.”
~ Kaylene Worme
