Pacific News Centre JULIE SOSO, THE FIRST female governor to be elected in Papua New Guinea, is in New Zealand this week to launch a report on adolescent sexual and reproductive health in the Pacific. The report ‘Pacific Youth: Their...
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Governor Soso advocates for adolescent sexual health
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Customary law capable of serving us well. Let’s use it
PETER DONIGI "THE extractive resources sector in PNG will be looking for one commitment from Prime Minister Peter O’Neill when he addresses the Mining and Petroleum Conference in Sydney, Australia, today. It will want an emphatic “no” to current moves...
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Carr announces scheme to cut child & maternal deaths
Australian High Commission AUSTRALIA HAS MADE a $66 million commitment to reducing child and maternal deaths in Papua New Guinea by providing up to 1,400 nursing and midwifery scholarships. Australia foreign minister Bob Carr made the announcement at Mt Hagen...
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No thanks, not yet: PNG’s ASEAN bid still stalled
SEAN JACOBS | East Asia Forum PAPUA NEW GUINEA’s dynamic economic growth over the past decade has created an appetite for big-picture trade and diplomatic ties, symbolised by its ongoing attempts to join ASEAN. But PNG’s requests, which have persisted...
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Botten says PNG fiscally more stable than Australia
SARAH-JANE TASKER | The Australian OIL SEARCH MANAGING DIRECTOR Peter Botten has pointed to Papua New Guinea's stable fiscal regime as fostering investment in the country, highlighting that it provided more certainty than Australia for resources companies looking to spend...
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Everyone take a deep breath – the sky is not falling!
PHIL FITZPATRICK MONDAY'S ARTICLE IN The National and Peter Donigi’s response in PNG Attitude yesterday about landholder rights need some clarification. Both articles were about amendments to the Papua New Guinea Mining Act originally proposed by Boka Kondra, now Minister...
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Australia gives 6,000 kids an educational opportunity
Australian High Commission AUSTRALIA’s FOREIGN MINISTER Senator Bob Carr has announced a $12 million contribution towards providing free education for Papua New Guinean children from remote and disadvantaged backgrounds. Speaking at Notre Dame Secondary School in Western Highlands Province, Senator...
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SABL inquiry a great move but a deadline is required
ACT NOW! THE ANNOUNCEMENT BY prime minister Peter O’Neill that investigations into the Special Agricultural and Business Leases (SABLs) will be completed without specifying any time limitation is unacceptable. "We commend the prime minister for informing the nation of status...
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While Australia's in denial, New Zealand has Waitangi
ERASMUS BARANIAK WITH BUT A CURSORY glance at New Zealand, one cannot help but notice the relative strength, resilience and pride of a small country. This is self-evident in the spirit of its people. This has not happened overnight. It...
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Belden Namah’s prison dreams: a couple of steps to go
KELA KAPKORA SIL BOLKIN | Supported by the Phil Fitzpatrick Writing Fellowship THE SANDLINE INTERNATIONAL mercenaries arrived in Papua New Guinea in February 1997. Brigadier-General Jerry Singirok, the army chief, denounced the Sandline deal and called on Sir Julius Chan...
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Bob Carr envisages a broad regional role for PNG
EOIN BLACKWELL | AAP PAPUA NEW GUINEA IS ENTITLED to play a bigger role in regional affairs, Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr has told the 21st PNG-Australia ministerial forum in Port Moresby. The meeting, chaired by PNG foreign minister Rimbink...
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A reconciliation with the family of my brother's killers
Lutterworth Mail / UK My Brother Vivian by Patrick Redlich, $25, www.mybrothervivian.com THIS NEW BOOK EXPLORES the incredible story of a missionary who was murdered by tribesmen in Papua New Guinea during World War II. The tale is told by...
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New national housing agency: breakthrough or setback
KRISTIAN LASSLETT ALTHOUGH IT HAS BEEN in the pipeline for months, last week the O’Neill government formally announced that National Housing Estate Limited (NHEL) would be taking over large chunks of the National Housing Corporation’s assets, and presumably its functions...
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AusAID should really focus on PNG’s infrastructure
FRANCIS NII | Supported by the South Pacific Strategic Solutions Writing Fellowship ALL THE ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN aid to Papua New Guinea to date would have made a lot of difference in the lives of the little Papua New Guineans and...
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Is Peter O’Neill Julia’s man? Australia's left thinks so
PATRICK O’CONNOR | Dissident Voice PAPUA NEW GUINEAN prime minister Peter O’Neill recently made his first official visit to Australia since his win in August’s national elections. O’Neill’s appearances in Canberra and Sydney demonstrated why the Australian government regards the...
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Bob Carr – get real about your tuberculosis money
PAUL OATES IN THE VAIN HOPE that someone with the power to actually do something may read what I write, I raise the following issues about what Senator Bob Carr said on his recently completed mission to Papua New Guinea....
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Migration control is vital for Bougainville’s development
LEONARD FONG ROKA | Supported by the Jeff Febi Writing Fellowship CONTROL OF FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT in and out of Bougainville is unvoiced by politicians because they are under democracy's spell. It is also not mentioned in the Bougainville Peace...
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PNG mining conference made the right noises
MIKE FOLEY | Australian Journal of Mining PAPUA NEW GUINEA’s developing resources sector was on show in Sydney this week, with a record number 1,400 delegates rolling up to the biennial PNG Mining and Investment conference. PNG prime minister Peter...
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Rich-poor divide must be reduced to eradicate poverty
Asian Development Bank IN 2012, WHILE PAPUA NEW GUINEA maintained its position as one of the fastest growing economies in Asia and the Pacific, the gap between rich and poor has increased. “Remote and rural communities in PNG remain cut...
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The mad, bad and beautiful dogs of Moresby
PETER KRANZ WHILST LIVING AT FORT BANNER in Port Moresby we decided we needed some bodyguards. So Rose came home from Gordon's market one day with two puppies. We thought they might grow up to become guard dogs. But on...
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