Book Review — Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua by Jason MacLeod
Thursday, 3rd March 2016 Jason MacLeod, Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2015), 284 pp. AUD $39.95. (Also distributed by Penguin Books Australia.) Review by Dale Hess Although West Papua is only about 125 km from Boigu Island, Australia’s northern point, very few Australians know much about it. […]
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