Creamers Mining Weekly | Reuters THE DISPUTE BETWEEN Papua New Guinea and Canada's Nautilus Minerals threatens to sink plans to mine gold and other metals for the first time from the ocean floor. It could also work against efforts by...
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Canadian underwater miner gets sinking feeling in PNG
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Could PNG kiap labour use have been akin to slavery?
ROSS WILKINSON KIAPS, OF WHICH I WAS ONCE ONE, were field officers with a variety of powers and functions in the Territory of Papua New Guinea Administration. We would sit in council meetings as the legal advisors to councillors; informing...
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Advice to a son about water, women and heaven
MICHAEL DOM Listen son, in the movie about Jerusalem Sala’din said that victory (in war) also depends on (apart from other things) the availability of water… Then after that huge battle scene at the Western Wall Sala’adin said that Jerusalem...
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Singing dog caught on camera for first time in 23 years
SARA TAN | Paw Nation IN AUGUST, IN THE PNG HIGHLANDS, Tom Hewitt stumbled upon one of the rarest and most mysterious animals in the world - the New Guinea singing dog. According to Scientific American, Hewitt was lucky enough...
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Cultural values: A yam story gives me food for thought
MARTYN NAMORONG | Supported by the Chalapi Pomat Writing Fellowship AN UNDERSTANDING OF Papua New Guinean gift logic may help understand the basis of demands made across the nation. Of course, Papua New Guinea is a modern interpretation of diverse...
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A harsh, beautiful land gives Ray a real adventure
ARTHUR GORRIE | Gympie Times (Queensland) KYBONG FARMER RAY GRESHAM may have walked away from dairying, but his trek across Papua New Guinea was a different kind of walking altogether. Looking for a change of scenery, Ray says he felt...
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Academic says education system needs changes
Radio New Zealand International AN ACADEMIC AT Papua New Guinea’s National Research Institute says there is a need for changes to the education curriculum particularly at the elementary level, where many children fail to learn to read and write. Dr...
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Beyond briefcase-carriers and venal mercenaries
FRANCIS NII | Supported by the South Pacific Strategic Solutions Writing Fellowship IT TAKES COURAGE AND BOLDNESS for a politician to meet people face to face and answer their questions about the hottest issues. In district development matters, such political...
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Kemish scotches rumour about ‘return of the kiaps’
KEITH JACKSON JUST BEFORE HEADING OFF on some well deserved leave yesterday, Australia’s high commissioner to Papua New Guinea Ian Kemish had one last piece of urgent business to attend to. Frenzied mainstream and social media comment in PNG was...
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Melanesian culture surprises New Zealand travel writer
CHRISTINE CORNEGE | The New Zealand Herald I'M GLAD I'M MARRIED. However, if I wasn't, it is good to know that in Mount Hagen I would be considered an A-class wife. Thanks to my university education, I could fetch a...
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Alexander Rheeney appointed editor of Post-Courier
KEITH JACKSON RESPECTED PAPUA NEW GUINEAN media personality Alexander Rheeney has returned to the PNG Post-Courier newspaper after a five-year absence – this time to occupy the editor’s chair. Mr Rheeney was previously a journalist with the Post-Courier and a...
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Journalism & the four progressive stages of corruption
SEAN DORNEY THERE HAS BEEN A SOLID HISTORY of the media in Papua New Guinea reporting on corruption. Certainly those who framed the PNG Constitution were acutely aware of what a problem corruption would become in this rapidly changing society....
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PNG film festival focused on violence against women
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights THE FILMS ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE screened at Papua New Guinea’s 2012 Human Rights Film Festival gave voice to many victims who described beatings they had endured and their inability to escape ill-treatment because...
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How I engaged Ms Mead in rich anthropological dialogue
HENRY BODMAN BACK IN THE EARLY SIXTIES, a mate invited my wife Janelle and I to an evening meal with Margaret Mead – the great anthropologist of Melanesia - at Kokopo. After Ruth Fink's Anthropology lectures at the Australian School...
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Volte farce! Bob Carr is PNG’s newest, bestest friend
KEITH JACKSON IF YOU CAN SAY ONE THING about Australia’s foreign minister Bob Carr - apart from admiring his sonorous baritone speaking voice – it is that he doesn’t let the turf grow under his pinkies. Just a few months...
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Is it going to rain in Moresby today, Karl? Lisa? Anyone?
RICHARD MARLES I WAKE UP WITH Today. And I have since it was hosted by Steve Liebmann and Liz Hayes. Don’t get me wrong. Sunrise is good. I have no complaint. It’s just that having let the Today crew into...
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Ecoforestry - creating solutions for PNG’s forests
SAM MOKO WITH LOGGING AND CLEARING for oil palm threatening many forests in Papua New Guinea, some communities are still standing strong and protecting their forests. Last week I was out with a Greenpeace team filming and photographing ecoforestry as...
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Australian doctor shocked by PNG health conditions
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners | Good Practice DR CHRIS MATTHEWS expected third-world conditions when he organised his two-week trip to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, but what he saw at Kokoda Hospital was more primitive than anything...
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Attitude's fellowship writers – creation & provocation
BERNARD YEGIORA | Twitter I’M IN KUNDIAWA, listening to a dog barking in the background while reading my favourite blog, Keith Jackson & Friends’ PNG Attitude. The Writing Fellowship is a brilliant initiative by Keith Jackson and, as I read...
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West Papuan refugees struggle for PNG citizenship
Irin Global | UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ACCESS TO CITIZENSHIP could prove the best hope yet for thousands of West Papuan refugees living in Papua New Guinea. “I want citizenship. I’ve been here 28 years and...
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