A short memo from the Australian Defence Department
KEITH JACKSON READER LAURENCE QUINLIVAN [pictured] is a well read man with an abiding interest in Papua New Guinea affairs, especially the Simbu Province. He’s also, amongst other roles, an academic...
View ArticleCourt accepts ruling on PNG diplomatic scam
JAKE CHUNG TAIPEI TIMES A US COURT’S ACCEPTANCE of a court ruling from Singapore opens the way for the Republic of China government to file a suit for the return of misappropriated ROC government funds...
View ArticleCall for Pacific to stop experimental seabed mining
EMTV AS CALLS FROM PACIFIC COMMUNITIES grow to stop seabed mining, it seems that the breakdown of a financing agreement may impede the viability of the Nautilus seabed mining experiment in Papua New...
View ArticleOne woman tries to defy PNG's man's world
HAMISH McDONALD SYDNEY MORNING HERALD GREY-BEARDED Simon Parua Kuri, aged about 82, is a revered former ''big man'' in politics around Mount Hagen, emerging from a semi-literate traditional background...
View ArticleTime for action with dysfunctional, violent PNG
GEOFFREY BARKER THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW IT HAS BEEN DOWNHILL ALL THE WAY since Australia, under international anti-colonial pressure, granted independence to Papua New Guinea in September 1975....
View ArticleDeaths, vote rigging as election enters 2nd week
HAMISH McDONALD / Wewak SYDNEY MORNING HERALD SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE REPORTEDLY been hacked to death in an ambush near a polling station as Papua New Guinea lurches into the second week of its troubled...
View ArticleUnderlying truth: an insight into the roads of Lae
AXEL RICE LAE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE HEART of Papua New Guinea. An important city, it is seen as the industrial hub of our nation accounting for much commercial activity. Many thousands of people flock...
View ArticleSir Mekere questions PNG’s sovereign wealth fund
STEPHEN HOWES DEVELOPMENT POLICY CENTRE EVERYONE LOVES PAPUA NEW GUINEA’s new sovereign wealth fund (SWF), and the country was widely commended when it was legislated earlier in the year. Some might be...
View ArticleSome don't share Namah's views on PNG's elections
IT IS EASY for one to be swept up in a lot of emotion regarding events in Papua New Guinea. The recent outbursts by politicians and the general public have shown a lack of level headedness amongst...
View ArticleWhat should Australia do? What can Australia do?
PAUL OATES / with a comment from David Kitchnoge AUSTRALIAN COMMENTATORS AND JOURNALISTS have recently identified a large island immediately to our north. This may well have something to do with the...
View Article‘I must become a king myself,’ says Belden Namah
PAPUA NEW GUINEA’s prime minister Peter O’Neill is well on the way to easily winning his Southern Highlands seat in the national elections but his deputy Belden Namah seems intent on raining on his...
View ArticleSomare to take insult & injury back to parliament
HAMISH McDONALD SYDNEY MORNING HERALD MICHAEL SOMARE, Papua New Guinea's version of ''Lazarus with a triple bypass'', is looking forward to returning to Parliament and dishing it back to the political...
View ArticleTurning PNG’s rich history into a bit of scrap metal
TERRY EDWINSMITH MANY THINGS CONTRIBUTE to a country’s history. The events of the past, whether for good or ill, fashion the way people see themselves. History is often very local but a single event...
View ArticleViolence in West Papua: vulnerable are the latest target
CAMELLIA WEBB-GANNON THE CONVERSATION WHY HAS WEST PAPUA’s non-violent student movement - the West Papuan National Committee (KNPB) - become the latest target of a campaign of terror in West Papua?...
View ArticleHolistic community development: a practical example
EMMA WAKPI I am reading with interest the discussion in PNG Attitude arising from Geoffrey Barker's article. From the tone of the discussion there seems to be a feeling of helplessness and defeat, yet...
View ArticleWho would lead us Péngé?
MICHAEL DOM In the temple of our democracy The tome of our founding law Has been torn asunder And the desecraters Elevated to demi-gods For whom, upon corrupted altars, Our children’s futures are...
View ArticleSome friendly ideas for a friend of Australia’s
DAVID WALL HTTP://DEBERIGNY.WORDPRESS.COM A DAY OR SO AGO I met with a group of friends who had either lived in Papua New Guinea or were very interested in the country, and I noted some of their...
View ArticlePush for women MPs held back by traditional attitudes
JOHNNY BLADES RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL WITH WOMEN ACCOUNTING for only around four percent of candidates standing in Papua New Guinea’s general election, debate rages about whether reserved...
View ArticleStill at the Windjammer, but things were different….
BARBARA SHORT SO MICHAEL SOMARE is still at the Windjammer! It's a lovely spot and I remember sitting here with him in the 1970s, listening to the nightly news broadcast. He was a great guy. But things...
View ArticleCould Namah possibly 'buy' the prime ministership?
KEITH JACKSON THERE ARE SOME SIGNIFICANT hurdles facing those who decide they want to represent their people in Papua New Guinea’s national parliament. The first is getting elected from the huge field...
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