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Papuans protest citizenship laws
From correspondents in Port Moresby
November 21, 2006 09:56am
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A group of Papuans who want Canberra to recognise them as Australians, are marching on the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby this morning intending to register as citizens.
Australian Papuan Community coordinator Jonathan Baure said the group wanted Australia to recognise that Papuans were not given a choice to remain Australians when Papua New Guinea became independent in 1975.
He said the members of his civil rights group believed that as Papuans in PNG they were still Australian citizens and there was never a referendum in Papua to legally sever ties with Australia.
His group maintains that Papuans born before PNG's independence in 1975 were Australian citizens but that was stripped from them and they were forced to renounce their Australian passports.
In August last year, the High Court in Australia upheld laws that Papuans ceased to be Australian citizens when PNG became independent.
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November 21, 2006 09:56am
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A group of Papuans who want Canberra to recognise them as Australians, are marching on the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby this morning intending to register as citizens.
Australian Papuan Community coordinator Jonathan Baure said the group wanted Australia to recognise that Papuans were not given a choice to remain Australians when Papua New Guinea became independent in 1975.
He said the members of his civil rights group believed that as Papuans in PNG they were still Australian citizens and there was never a referendum in Papua to legally sever ties with Australia.
His group maintains that Papuans born before PNG's independence in 1975 were Australian citizens but that was stripped from them and they were forced to renounce their Australian passports.
In August last year, the High Court in Australia upheld laws that Papuans ceased to be Australian citizens when PNG became independent.
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