STEPHEN HOWES | ANU Development Policy Centre | Extract 2012 ENDED ON A NASTY NOTE with the banning in November of Ross Garnaut from entry to PNG for a critical remark he made to Rowan Callick of The Australian. The...
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Manus sensitivities lie behind Oz silence on Garnaut
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Garnaut’s storm in teacup moment creates ripples
KEITH JACKSON IN AN EXTRAORDINARY ESCALATION of his dispute with the Papua New Guinea government – a contretemps he says he wishes to “move on” from – businessman-academic Ross Garnaut has called on the Australian government to negotiate an agreement...
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Readers assistance required in PNG alcohol research
KEITH JACKSON PATRICK HOWLEY (pictured), a Marist Brother, has lived in Papua New Guinea since 1966, transitioning through a number of assignments from teaching at St Xavier’s on Kairiru Island to his present post in the Flexible Learning Faculty at...
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Slowdown in Australian resources unlikely to affect PNG
DEV NADKARNI | Islands Business | Extracts THE MIDDLE OF LAST YEAR saw murmurs about an impending slowdown in the Australian natural resources sector, which snowballed into fears of a possible downturn in the coming 18-24 months as the year...
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Allegation of US market manipulation in BCL shares
KEITH JACKSON THE PRESIDENT OF THE European Shareholders of Bougainville Copper (ESBC), Axel G Sturm (pictured), has accused two leading US companies and a Wall Street stockbroking firm of fraudulently manipulating the market for shares in Bougainville Copper (BCL). And...
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Elite hubris: Professor Ross Garnaut has lost the plot
SHARON ISAFE | Papua New Guinea Mine Watch PROFESSOR ROSS GARNAUT, perhaps Australia’s most infamous academic-entrepreneur, has lashed out at Papua New Guinea's prime minister Peter O’Neill over his expulsion from PNG. He claims: “My ban was a low point...
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Tears of joy as Climate Challenger returns home
MANUAI MATAWAI | Supported by the Chalapi Pomat Writing Fellowship AFTER A THREE MONTH epic canoe voyage, Climate Challenger has finally returned home. It was around 8am, making a steady 10 knots with our sails well set, that we returned...
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PNG should introduce tariffs to get agriculture moving
TONY FLYNN THERE IS A LOT OF LIP SERVICE given to developing the rural areas of Papua New Guinea. The truth is that the distribution systems are undeveloped for anything other than servicing expatriate dominated sectors. This has led government...
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The paradoxes of Ross Garnaut and Peter O’Neill
SAMUEL ROTH ROSS GARNAUT IS WELL-RESPECTED in both Australia and Papua New Guinea. He should be thankful that PNG has helped him build his profile and put him where he is now – one of Australia’s most influential individuals. However,...
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Tribe promised peace; & would kill to keep its word
BEN JACKSON 'The KomKui Who Made a Covenant with God' by Brother Pat Howley FMS, The DWU Press, dwupress@dswu.ac.pg, ISBN978-9980-9932-5-0 THE KOMKUI IS A RELATIVELY NEW TRIBE, formed in 1980 from the coming together of the of two Mokei tribes...
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Barry Holloway, servant of PNG, dies in Brisbane at 78
KEITH JACKSON I FIRST MET BARRY HOLLOWAY (1934-2013), then 28 but looking even more youthful, at a dinner party I attended with my mate Murray Bladwell in Goroka at the end of 1963. We spent most of the evening discussing...
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PNG curbs foreign travel for ministers, officials
BBC News Asia PRIME MINISTER PETER O'NEILL has banned ministers and other government officials from travelling overseas for work. Mr O'Neill said the move was aimed at cutting costs but also ensuring officials stayed focused on their work. Investigations had...
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New generation: Talking with PNG's Attorney-General
ALEX OLIVER | The Interpreter | Lowy Institute LATE LAST YEAR I travelled to Port Moresby to interview some of PNG's newly elected MPs for the Lowy Institute's Leadership Mapping Project. One of the most interesting discussions I had during...
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Love
EMMA WAKPI | Supported by the Rob & Meg Parer Writing Fellowship I HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT some of my favourite passages from the Bible and seeing how I could grasp their meaning better if I paraphrased them in poems...
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Old International Training Institute now on Facebook
KEITH JACKSON PNG ATTITUDE PAYS TRIBUTE to the former Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA) in various ways, including the retention of the name in our internet address. A little remembered aspect of ASOPA, which ended its illustrious life in...
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Should deep-sea mining go ahead in PNG?
PRIME SARMIENTO | SciDev.net THE FATE OF A currently-halted deep-sea mining project in the Pacific is being watched closely by a number of parties. Mining companies hope that the project might become the start of an extraordinary bonanza of mineral...
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Garnautgate: The independence struggle continues
SHARON ISAFE | Papua New Guinea Mine Watch IN 1975 PNG ACHIEVED political autonomy, but the struggle for independence continues. BHP is the first of many dragons the government must slay. But first things first, the O’Neill government has been...
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Days of the Kiap: Constable Okomba & the cannibals
PHIL FITZPATRICK IN 1968, WHEN IT WAS APPARENT that self-government and independence for Papua New Guinea was imminent, the Australian government issued orders for all the so-called ‘uncontrolled’ areas to be brought to heel. The Department of District Administration instituted...
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UNHCR backs away from W Papua refugee support
FIRMIN NANOL | Radio Australia THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES (UNHCR) has announced it will scale back its operations in Papua New Guinea, citing the growing expense of looking after refugees from the Indonesian province of Papua. The...
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New MP Pato brings Wapenamanda hope at last
JOE WASIA | Supported by the Bob Cleland Writing Fellowship THE 40,000 PLUS PEOPLE of the Wapenamanda district in Enga Province now see some light at the end of the tunnel. New MP for Wapenamanda and Foreign Affairs Minister, Rimbink...
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