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So you have to go back to 1958, a full 11 years before the handover, when the intervening years and US policy (note that on his meeting with JFK in 1963 he made no such objection to West Papua being handed to Indonesia) made it such that West Papua became the possession of Indonesia.
And yet by some amazing sleight of hand, Gough Whitlam was responsible for the decision.
You are full of shit.
Was he responsible for the UN decision? No. Was he responsible for being Suharto's best mate and letting him slaughter hundreds of thousands in the years afterwards? Yes.
The original quote I was replying to was discussing west papuans still being killed today. Not in 1962. If you can't accept that Whitlam is largely responsible for Indonesia's belligerence than you are just one-eyed. It is widely acknowledged as being the biggest failure of his administration. Fraser was not much better though, don't get me wrong. But at least he didn't cover up Indonesian military killing Australian citizens so as not to embarrass his best mate Suharto, that was Whitlam.
If you remember, it was you who singled out this 1 aspect (that Calwell and Whitlam disagreed) and asked me to prove it. I did prove it, and now you're claiming this was my argument from the start. It wasn't. You are so angry at being wrong you've forgotten what the point of your argument was.