Penny Wong said the government was working with authorities in France and New Caledonia,to find a way for Australians to safely leave the island.
This week,the tropical Pacific holiday destination erupted amid tensions with the French government in Paris over voting rights.
Azerbaijan had invited separatists from the French territories last year,resulting in a group whose stated aim is to support “French liberation and anti-colonialist movements”.
The University of Melbourne says campus protests against the war in Gaza have been infiltrated by outside agitators,but students reject the claim.
Armed forces are protecting New Caledonia’s two airports and port after a third night of violent riots that have killed four people.
Melbourne,Monash and Deakin universities continue to grapple with defiant students staging protests over the war in Gaza despite requests to leave and dismantle their camps.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the federal government was closely monitoring the situation and urged Australians to stay safe.
The University of Melbourne has described the sit-in as “unacceptable” and said it would be investigated.
The development comes a week after a Greens MP was asked to leave the chamber for refusing to take off her keffiyeh scarf,commonly worn to show support for Palestine.
Calls for “intifada” are antisemitic,but it is not clear that police should end an entire protest in response to isolated criminal offences.
Ben Carroll’s Niddrie office was defaced in a spate of vandalism that also targeted Seven and the ABC,before protesters halted Melbourne’s peak-hour traffic.