Human Rights Report West Papua I Jack Mundie from 1999 I Homelessness a modern scandal

from Solidarity Breakfast · host Annie McLoughlin, Kim Doyle, Sister Susan Connolly, Jack Mundie, Joe Toscano

Sister Susan Connolly gives an eyewitness account of her visit to West Papua in Feburary, 2016. The report from the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission - We Will Lose Everything: A Report on a Human Rights Fact Finding Mission to West Papua, characterises the Indonesian occupation as part of a slow motion genocide on our door step.Exerpt from 1999 interview with unionist Jack Mundie as part of the 40 years of 3cr celebrations.Homelessness is now a modern scourge as Governments withdraw from public housing. Bendigo St, Collingwood Melbourne house occupiers were ousted by police and security guards during the Melbourne Cup holiday period and the Herald Sun denigrated the Homeless Person Union as mere violent rabble. Meanwhile an action group against privatisation of public housing stock in Victoria are taking preemtive action against a formal announcement that the Labour Government wants to off-load 70% of public housing to private management. Solidarity Breakfast report.

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