This open letter demands that UQ pledge to cease receiving funding from ANY foreign government's defence department. Boeing, a company that profits off of genocides in places such as Palestine and West Papua, has a centre at the St Lucia campus, and after a recent report from Declassified Australia detailing funding received from foreign governments, the lack of integrity of the University can no longer be questioned. 

The report confirmed that the United States Defence Department has funded $394 million to Australian universities via grants and contracts since 2007. The article revealed that the University of Queensland was the second-highest recipient of this funding during this time- at $60.5 million. 

The same institutions that educate our populous should not be allowed to profit off of violence, and it is urgent that their support of the military industrial complex ceases.

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I hereby sign this in agreement with the request and concerns addressed in the open letter (attached below) directed towards the University of Queensland. 

This petition of certain citizens of Australia draws to the attention of the Senate that:

• Reputable human rights organisations report significant human rights violations committed by Indonesian police and military in West Papua;
• These violations are committed with impunity;
• The Australian Federal Police and Australian Defence Forces provide substantial support to the Indonesian police and military, including D88, Brimob and Kopassus, the worst human rights offenders;
• The nature and extent of this support is not fully disclosed;
• No conditionality or benchmarks are attached to this support to ensure Indonesian police and military respect human rights