Morning Star rises above Camp Street

THE West Papuan flag, the Morning Star, was raised at 10.30am on Sunday at Ballarat Trades Hall.

Free West Papua Ballarat Support Group’s John Lawrence said Ballarat was the first Trades Hall in Australia to fly the flag on 1 December, doing so for five years.

“The Papuans have been rising up and have been crushed down viciously, with many murders, by the Indonesian military. In the last four months, there’s almost been a virtual blackout from West Papua, so we do our little bit,” he said.