"Then we go on to West Papua. What we are doing here today in West Papua is clearly an act of complicity in the crimes committed against the West Papuan people. We... give hundreds of millions of dollars to the Indonesian government to support their madrasas —their schools. We give Hercules C130s to them for minimal cost and we turn a blind eye to the atrocities being conducted on our doorstep. In effect, we supply the means and the money for the children of West Papua to be forcibly indoctrinated into the Islamic faith against the will of their parents. Only a few years ago our government rightly apologised for the mistakes that led to the Stolen Generations. How long will it be before our government apologises for its complicity in the stolen generations of the West Papuan people?
Senator Carr, our foreign aid is assisting the Indonesian military in its relentless oppression of the West Papuan people. On Thursday I will have some questions for you to answer, and I do not want to hear the usual cowardly and deceptive response about not answering questions on foreign affairs in the Senate, or of simply denying that West Papua even exists. I and the Australian people expect answers. The shame being brought on this nation as a result of successive governments turning a blind eye to the horrors being done with your blessing is disgraceful. Neither I nor the Democratic Labor Party will take a step back from our position. To do so would be accept complicity to genocide."
Read the full speech here:
http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansards%2F595e4e76-cff2-452f-bd37-f8094ab4d775%2F0201%22
John Joseph Madigan (born 21 July 1966) is an Australian politician.[1] He is a member of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP), elected to the Australian Senate with 2.3 percent of the primary vote in Victoria at the 2010 federal election, serving a six-year term since July 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Madigan_(Australian_politician)