JO CHANDLER | The Global Mail KABUSI KEBEI’S DEATHBED IS A GRASS MAT, her pillow a knot of rags. She rises from it with a quiet greeting, showing more grace than a stranger’s rude intrusion on her dying deserves. She...
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Up the Fly without a paddle
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A senior police officer's view of policing in PNG
JOHN MURRAY APM has spent many years scrutinising South Pacific police forces. Here he casts a detective’s eye over Papua New Guinea.... DEATHS FROM SORCERY, tribal battles and cannibalism continue in PNG but tend to be neglected by the chronically...
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PNG Attitude will continue publication during the Christmas-New Year period, which the editor will be spending with family in New Zealand. We wish our readers and contributors the best for the festive season and a fulfilling 2013....
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John Murray’s book on policing in the South Pacific, ‘The Minnows of Triton’, won an ACT Writing and Publishing Award and is revised annually, the latest edition coming out in September. The book is available at the Co-op Bookshop at...
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Do NGOs make a difference, and how would you know?
ANDREW ROWELL | Development Policy Blog EVERYONE IN DEVELOPMENT wants to know what difference their work is making. International NGOs such as CARE are asked the question in different ways. Our supporters want to know their money is helping those...
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None so deaf…. The recapture of Lae in World War II
PETER RYAN PATROLLING HIGH IN the Saruwaged Mountains north of Lae, my little group of tough constables and I were most unreasonably fired on one day by a strong Japanese patrol traversing what we had hitherto regarded as “our patch”....
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The story of Pastor Russell Kranz: evangelist & artist
KEITH JACKSON THIS IS A STORY FOR CHRISTMAS. It is about a good man, now in his fading years, who was a Church leader, a composer and choir master and a talented watercolourist. The paintings accompanying this article are his....
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Foreigners in another world: Jane finds the two PNGs
JANE SLOANE | Jane in the World ONE CASSOWARY, TWO SHEEP, 24 pigs, K1,600 worth of vegetables, K10,000 of gas and K10,000 in cash is the worth of a woman. That’s the bride price my driver, Andrew, paid for his...
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Severe and powerful influences against PNG culture
SIONI RUMA INDIGENOUS CULTURES that have inherited perhaps thousands of years of continuous development exist on our planet alongside relatively new groups and nations. All are eager to retain what they believe are the valuable aspects of their established customs...
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Grass-fruits! Inspiring stories of community self-help
EMMA WAKPI | Supported by the Rob & Meg Parer Writing Fellowship Joshua told the people, Make yourselves acceptable to worship the Lord, because He is going to do some amazing things for us (Joshua 3:5, CEV) 13/11/12 -14:14:37hrs -...
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The chronicle of my life so far
MELODY GEMELAIA My name is Melody Neneth Gemelaia and I come from a mixed parentage of Central and Milne Bay. I was born on 16 January 1994 at the Port Moresby General Hospital. I come from a single parent family...
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Ambiguous Byron Chan makes mining industry nervous
PNG Industry News PNG PRIME MINISTER PETER O’NEILL has delivered a strong message on the importance of “investor confidence and certainty” but his Mining Minister, Byron Chan (pictured), is reading from a script that seemed destined to deliver the opposite....
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Chinese soft loans: The six billion kina question
GRAEME SMITH | The Interpreter | Lowy Institute WHEN I PENNED Are Chinese Soft Loans Always a Bad Thing? for The Interpreter in March there seemed little prospect that my query would have immediate relevance. Papua New Guinea Treasury officials...
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Good news for PNG maritime safety & efficiency
Asian Development Bank THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) has approved a $41.5 million loan to improve navigational aids in Papua New Guinea, allowing ships to more safely travel through PNG’s largely unchartered and often unsafe waters. “The Maritime and Waterways...
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LNG project violence set to increase, says NGO
Radio New Zealand International THE CO-AUTHOR of a report on the $19 billion liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea says foreign governments shouldn’t have signed off on the project. NGO Jubilee Australia’s investigative report says the project agreement...
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Chronic underfunding holds back PNG education
The ABC’s GERALDINE COUTTS interviews Dr Scott McWilliam from the State, Society & Governance in Melanesia program at the Australian National University MACWILLIAM: The big problem in PNG is for about 20-odd years not enough resources have been put into...
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Bougainville politics & the characteristics of its people
LEONARD FONG ROKA | Supported by the Jeff Febi Writing Fellowship HAVING LIVED ALL MY LIFE in Bougainville, and travelled extensively around the island, and growing up with the Bougainville secessionist conflict since 1988, there are certain things I have...
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Resolving hybrid conflicts: the Bougainville story
TIMOTHY G HAMMOND | Foreign Policy Journal THE AUTONOMOUS REGION OF BOUGAINVILLE, which includes the islands of Bougainville, Buka, and an array of smaller atolls, is located in Oceania just east of mainland Papua New Guinea, from which it is...
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On Christmas Day in PNG Attitude - two scintillating Christmas articles from Emma Wakpi and Jeffrey Mane Febi. Not to be missed.... Tomorrow!
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The PNG way – paradox, rhetoric. almost a myth
JEFFREY MANE FEBI THIS HAS BEEN OUR CUSTOM - the Papua New Guinea Way - the way we have been doing our business ever since our tumbunas understood the advantages of living together in groups - communities that developed ways...
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