Supporters of West Papua independence hold the Morning Star flag outside the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra this week. Source: SBS News West Papuans around Australia have raised their Morning Star ...

“The Australian Defence Exports Office is a gift from the government to the weapons’ corporations,” Miriam Torzillo told protesters outside its office. Paul Oboohov reports. Video: Free West Papua ...

Shortly after the kidnapping, the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) claimed responsibility. Sebby Sambom, a TPNPB spokesperson, told The Australian newspaper that the group had released ...

Steve Guttenberg, known for roles in films such as Police Academy and Three Men and a Baby, stresses the need for unity and ...

New research provides direct evidence that seafarers travelled along the equator to reach islands off the coast of West Papua more than 50 millennia ago. A negotiator in early talks to free ...

A new wave of violence has hit the restive Indonesian region of West Papua after hundreds of protesters, mostly high school students, set fire to several buildings in a town on Monday. At least 23 ...

A new study has outlined the first genomic evidence of early migration from New Guinea into the Wallacea, an archipelago ...

It is the western half of New Guinea, the world's second largest island after Greenland, with Papua New Guinea (PNG) comprising the eastern half. PNG was granted independence from Australia in 1975.