Photos. The Morning Star flag raised in Sydney.

 The Morning Star  flag raised in  Sydney.

AWPA thanks the Inner West Council and all West Papuan supporters for their support in raising the West Papuan flag in  Sydney

Supporters of self-determination for West Papua joined together on December 1 for the annual Morning Star flag raising at Leichhardt Town Hall. This will be 19th year in a row that the West Papuan flag was raised above this historic building in Sydney's Inner West on Gadigal Country.

All through West Papua, across the Pacific island nations and in many countries around the world, West Papuans and their supporters rise the Morning Star flag on this day. In Indonesian occupied West Papua, the brave people who raise the flag will be risking arrest, beatings and even death for this act.

West Papuan Jack Warisyu, who raised the flag, told the gathering: "West Papua is on our doorstep, only 200 miles from the Australian border, and it is very sad that the Albanese government keeps on denying the our fight against injustice, against discrimination, against human rights abuse just for our right to self-determination."

On Wednesday Dec 3, Green Left will be hosting a film showing of 'Papuan Skies' — a documentary about Indonesia’s project aims to turn a vast area of forests and wetlands into rice fields and sugar plantations, in the name of 'food security'.

Details here:

https://www.greenleft.org.au/2025-12/event/free-west-papua-film-forum-papuan-skies

#WestPapua #morningstar #PapuaMerdeka

Photos by Pip Hinman , Peter Boyle and Joe Collins.

Youtube video

https://youtu.be/Ux7WSvlI_f8

Photos on FB

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AZhxHWrje/?mibextid=wwXIfr

AWPA statement 1st Dec 2025

https://awpasydneynews.blogspot.com/2025/11/west-papuan-national-flag-day-1st.html

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