Jenny Forster
@jennyjforster.bsky.social
Optimistic feminist, tree hugging leftie- wondering when the counterculture wagon left town…
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How Wiradjuri constellations like the Great Celestial Emu make us look at the sky in a different way www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Greek astronomy is ancient; this Wiradjuri knowledge is far older
All 88 internationally recognised constellations have European origins. But First Nations astronomy tells older, beautiful stories that contain invaluable lessons and knowledge.
www.abc.net.au
December 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
How Wiradjuri constellations like the Great Celestial Emu make us look at the sky in a different way www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Above board? My cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How does anyone get on a government board these days? | Fiona Katauskas
It helps to have friends in high places
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Above board? My cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Albanese govt sat on this report for TWO YEARS, and then only released it after parliament finished for the year.
The report was originally commissioned “to enhance integrity and trust in government institutions” lol
The report was originally commissioned “to enhance integrity and trust in government institutions” lol
Scathing ‘jobs for mates’ review finds appointments to government boards routinely abused
A report by Lynelle Briggs says placements ‘look like nepotism’ and are undermining confidence in government
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The Albanese govt sat on this report for TWO YEARS, and then only released it after parliament finished for the year.
The report was originally commissioned “to enhance integrity and trust in government institutions” lol
The report was originally commissioned “to enhance integrity and trust in government institutions” lol
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Sums thing up really.
To top things off, perhaps they could forward the report to the NACC? 😂
To top things off, perhaps they could forward the report to the NACC? 😂
The Albanese govt sat on this report for TWO YEARS, and then only released it after parliament finished for the year.
The report was originally commissioned “to enhance integrity and trust in government institutions” lol
The report was originally commissioned “to enhance integrity and trust in government institutions” lol
Scathing ‘jobs for mates’ review finds appointments to government boards routinely abused
A report by Lynelle Briggs says placements ‘look like nepotism’ and are undermining confidence in government
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Sums thing up really.
To top things off, perhaps they could forward the report to the NACC? 😂
To top things off, perhaps they could forward the report to the NACC? 😂
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West Papua is Indonesia’s “Lebensraum” —
A colonised frontier pillaged for gold, forests, and oil while Indigenous Papuans are displaced, silenced, and militarised.
This isn’t “unity” — it’s expansion, domination, and erasure masked as nationalism.
#WestPapua #colonialism #Lebensraum
A colonised frontier pillaged for gold, forests, and oil while Indigenous Papuans are displaced, silenced, and militarised.
This isn’t “unity” — it’s expansion, domination, and erasure masked as nationalism.
#WestPapua #colonialism #Lebensraum
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
West Papua is Indonesia’s “Lebensraum” —
A colonised frontier pillaged for gold, forests, and oil while Indigenous Papuans are displaced, silenced, and militarised.
This isn’t “unity” — it’s expansion, domination, and erasure masked as nationalism.
#WestPapua #colonialism #Lebensraum
A colonised frontier pillaged for gold, forests, and oil while Indigenous Papuans are displaced, silenced, and militarised.
This isn’t “unity” — it’s expansion, domination, and erasure masked as nationalism.
#WestPapua #colonialism #Lebensraum
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The rediscovery of the rarest #kangaroo alive the Wondiwoi kangaroo in #WestPapua 🌿is bittersweet as they were previously thought to be #extinct 🙀learn about their rare beauty 😍🦘 and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife ✊🌿 @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-8yg
Encountering the World’s Most Endangered Kangaroo: The Wondiwoi Tree Kangaroo
Encounter the Wondiwoi tree-kangaroo. Rediscovered in 2018, these rare marsupials from West Papua are a symbol of hope amidst threats from palm oil, hunting
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November 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The rediscovery of the rarest #kangaroo alive the Wondiwoi kangaroo in #WestPapua 🌿is bittersweet as they were previously thought to be #extinct 🙀learn about their rare beauty 😍🦘 and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife ✊🌿 @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-8yg
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Can anyone explain the story of #NewGuinea, how it was sliced up by the Dutch, British, Germany & how the US and Indonesia: a shit clusterfuck of islands is fucking up #WestPapua, murdering the black indigenous & plunder natural resources.
#Netherlands
#Netherlands
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Can anyone explain the story of #NewGuinea, how it was sliced up by the Dutch, British, Germany & how the US and Indonesia: a shit clusterfuck of islands is fucking up #WestPapua, murdering the black indigenous & plunder natural resources.
#Netherlands
#Netherlands
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#WestPapua barely gets mentioned — shocking, right? Indonesia colonizes it, Australia cheers from the sidelines, and the Dutch suddenly develop selective mutism whenever their colonial skeletons start rattling.
But sure, let’s all pretend it’s “complicated.”
#Netherlands #AusPol
But sure, let’s all pretend it’s “complicated.”
#Netherlands #AusPol
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
#WestPapua barely gets mentioned — shocking, right? Indonesia colonizes it, Australia cheers from the sidelines, and the Dutch suddenly develop selective mutism whenever their colonial skeletons start rattling.
But sure, let’s all pretend it’s “complicated.”
#Netherlands #AusPol
But sure, let’s all pretend it’s “complicated.”
#Netherlands #AusPol
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West Papua holds some of the planet’s richest biodiversity — and its youth are rising to protect it before it’s gone.
#WestPapua #IndigenousYouth #Greenpeace #ClimateJustice #ForestDefenders
#WestPapua #IndigenousYouth #Greenpeace #ClimateJustice #ForestDefenders
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
West Papua holds some of the planet’s richest biodiversity — and its youth are rising to protect it before it’s gone.
#WestPapua #IndigenousYouth #Greenpeace #ClimateJustice #ForestDefenders
#WestPapua #IndigenousYouth #Greenpeace #ClimateJustice #ForestDefenders
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#WestPapua is the world’s favourite divide-and-conquer project — home to the fattest gold mine, shitloads of copper, and a buffet of resources so lucrative everyone just nods, smiles, and pretends they can’t see the slow-motion disaster unfolding.
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
#WestPapua is the world’s favourite divide-and-conquer project — home to the fattest gold mine, shitloads of copper, and a buffet of resources so lucrative everyone just nods, smiles, and pretends they can’t see the slow-motion disaster unfolding.
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The Island #NewGuinea still has 60 million ha of intact rainforest — the world’s third largest. #WestPapua #PNG
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The Island #NewGuinea still has 60 million ha of intact rainforest — the world’s third largest. #WestPapua #PNG
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Military occupations and genocides are never 'complicated'.
If someone claims so, they support those atrocities.
From #WestPapua to #WesternSahara, from #Palestine to #Sudan 's #Darfur and #Tibet.
West Papua has been brutally occupied by #Indonesia for 62 years.
If someone claims so, they support those atrocities.
From #WestPapua to #WesternSahara, from #Palestine to #Sudan 's #Darfur and #Tibet.
West Papua has been brutally occupied by #Indonesia for 62 years.
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Military occupations and genocides are never 'complicated'.
If someone claims so, they support those atrocities.
From #WestPapua to #WesternSahara, from #Palestine to #Sudan 's #Darfur and #Tibet.
West Papua has been brutally occupied by #Indonesia for 62 years.
If someone claims so, they support those atrocities.
From #WestPapua to #WesternSahara, from #Palestine to #Sudan 's #Darfur and #Tibet.
West Papua has been brutally occupied by #Indonesia for 62 years.
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Sydney 3rd december
Film and forum:
West Papua’s ‘Food Estate’: Serving Land Theft and Human Suffering on a Silver Platte
#WestPapua #ecocide #deforestation
Film and forum:
West Papua’s ‘Food Estate’: Serving Land Theft and Human Suffering on a Silver Platte
#WestPapua #ecocide #deforestation
Film and forum: West Papua's Food Estate – An assault on land and people
Papuan Skies is 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'.
www.greenleft.org.au
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Sydney 3rd december
Film and forum:
West Papua’s ‘Food Estate’: Serving Land Theft and Human Suffering on a Silver Platte
#WestPapua #ecocide #deforestation
Film and forum:
West Papua’s ‘Food Estate’: Serving Land Theft and Human Suffering on a Silver Platte
#WestPapua #ecocide #deforestation
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Amnesty International urges full investigation into fatal drone attack on civilians in #WestPapua
Usut tuntas serangan drone di Yahukimo dan ungkap pelakunya • Amnesty International Indonesia
Menanggapi dugaan serangan drone di Kota Dekai, Yahukimo, Provinsi Papua Pegunungan, yang menewaskan seorang warga sipil dan melukai satu warga sipil lainnya, Direktur Eksekutif Amnesty International ...
www.amnesty.id
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Amnesty International urges full investigation into fatal drone attack on civilians in #WestPapua
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Over 100,000 Indigenous Papuans — mostly women and kids
— have been forced to flee armed conflict.
— and the government’s response? A stunning masterclass in doing absolutely nothing, leaving families to survive without even basic protection. #WestPapua
www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...
— have been forced to flee armed conflict.
— and the government’s response? A stunning masterclass in doing absolutely nothing, leaving families to survive without even basic protection. #WestPapua
www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...
Papua conflict uproots thousands while state assistance lags - Politics - The Jakarta Post
Prolonged armed conflict in Papua has forced more than 100,000 indigenous people, most of them women and children, to flee their homes. Yet the government’s failure to provide adequate protection has ...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Over 100,000 Indigenous Papuans — mostly women and kids
— have been forced to flee armed conflict.
— and the government’s response? A stunning masterclass in doing absolutely nothing, leaving families to survive without even basic protection. #WestPapua
www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...
— have been forced to flee armed conflict.
— and the government’s response? A stunning masterclass in doing absolutely nothing, leaving families to survive without even basic protection. #WestPapua
www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...
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West Papua Youth Rise: Defending the Last Rainforests #Greenpeace #WestPapua
www.greenpeace.org/southeastasi...
www.greenpeace.org/southeastasi...
Indigenous youth are rising: Across tropical forests, a new generation speaks with a unified voice - Greenpeace Southeast Asia
Deep within the forest of Sira Village, West Papua, nearly 100 young Indigenous Leaders gathered for a Forest Defenders Camp.
www.greenpeace.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
West Papua Youth Rise: Defending the Last Rainforests #Greenpeace #WestPapua
www.greenpeace.org/southeastasi...
www.greenpeace.org/southeastasi...
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#WestPapua:
The Horror Story So Real the UN Files It Under ‘Too Politically Inconvenient
See this video youtu.be/4nX1ttyinsA?...
The Horror Story So Real the UN Files It Under ‘Too Politically Inconvenient
See this video youtu.be/4nX1ttyinsA?...
How West Papua was stolen
YouTube video by Mr M History
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November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
#WestPapua:
The Horror Story So Real the UN Files It Under ‘Too Politically Inconvenient
See this video youtu.be/4nX1ttyinsA?...
The Horror Story So Real the UN Files It Under ‘Too Politically Inconvenient
See this video youtu.be/4nX1ttyinsA?...
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Vivienne Westwood’s ‘Pistol’ pieces are now on sale —
All profits go straight to actual lifesaving work: the Free West Papua Campaign and the Red Cross in Sudan. Fashion with bite, and a conscience. #WestPapua
All profits go straight to actual lifesaving work: the Free West Papua Campaign and the Red Cross in Sudan. Fashion with bite, and a conscience. #WestPapua
Vivienne Westwood’s iconic designs from ‘Pistol’ are on sale to aid humanitarian crisis
An exclusive sale of the official Sex and Seditionaires costumes from Danny Boyle’s Sex Pistols drama will support The Vivienne Foundation
uk.news.yahoo.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Vivienne Westwood’s ‘Pistol’ pieces are now on sale —
All profits go straight to actual lifesaving work: the Free West Papua Campaign and the Red Cross in Sudan. Fashion with bite, and a conscience. #WestPapua
All profits go straight to actual lifesaving work: the Free West Papua Campaign and the Red Cross in Sudan. Fashion with bite, and a conscience. #WestPapua
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The cheeky colourful Bougainville Moustached Kingfisher lives in #PapuaNewGuinea and #WestPapua #rainforest, endangered by #palmoil #deforestation. Boycott the brands destroying their home #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/31/b...
Bougainville Moustached Kingfisher Actenoides bougainvillei
Protect the Bougainville Moustached Kingfisher from palm oil and timber ecocide. Fewer than 2.5K remain alive in Papua, boycott palm oil for their survival!
palmoildetectives.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The cheeky colourful Bougainville Moustached Kingfisher lives in #PapuaNewGuinea and #WestPapua #rainforest, endangered by #palmoil #deforestation. Boycott the brands destroying their home #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/31/b...
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The #Netherlands is once again cheerfully supplying military equipment to the Indonesian navy — the same bunch that treats human rights in #WestPapua like a disposable option on a cheap menu.
But hey, as long as the money’s good, who needs to ship a conscience along with the hardware?
But hey, as long as the money’s good, who needs to ship a conscience along with the hardware?
#Nederland levert weer vrolijk militair materieel aan de Indonesische marine — dezelfde club die in #WestPapua mensenrechten behandelt alsof het een wegwerpoptie in een menu is.
Maar hé, als het geld maar klopt, dan hoeft het geweten natuurlijk niet meegeleverd te worden.
Maar hé, als het geld maar klopt, dan hoeft het geweten natuurlijk niet meegeleverd te worden.
Nederland levert militair materieel aan Indonesische marine, die mensenrechten schendt in West-Papoea
In oud-kolonie West-Papoea, nu bestuurd door Indonesië, neemt militair geweld tegen Papoea's toe. Nederland levert militair materieel aan de marine, die mensenrechten schendt.||In de voormalige Nederl...
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November 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The #Netherlands is once again cheerfully supplying military equipment to the Indonesian navy — the same bunch that treats human rights in #WestPapua like a disposable option on a cheap menu.
But hey, as long as the money’s good, who needs to ship a conscience along with the hardware?
But hey, as long as the money’s good, who needs to ship a conscience along with the hardware?
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“New Guinea’s Forests: The Last Stand Against Our Global Climate Cowardice”
#WestPapua #PNG #NewGuinea
#WestPapua #PNG #NewGuinea
New Guinea’s forests: a global test of climate and biodiversity resolve - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility launched at COP30 represents a promising new financial model to protect our region's forests, says Peter Raynes.
devpolicy.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
“New Guinea’s Forests: The Last Stand Against Our Global Climate Cowardice”
#WestPapua #PNG #NewGuinea
#WestPapua #PNG #NewGuinea
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Indonesian Military Bombs West Papua — Star Mountains Turn into Killing Fields
#WestPapua
#WestPapua
Breaking: Indonesian Military Strikes West Papua Guerrillas in Star Mountains
Members from the U.S. Air Force and Indonesian military march during the exercise Cope West 18 (CW18) open ceremony at Sam Ratulangi International Airport, Indonesia, March 12, 2018. (U.S. Air Forc…
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November 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Indonesian Military Bombs West Papua — Star Mountains Turn into Killing Fields
#WestPapua
#WestPapua