Trumpeter
JIMMY DREKOREAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryYou make commitment No fulfilment They’ll call you commitment You’re not cool You’re a foolYou only talk Look at the clock...
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Disabled people in PNG being shamelessly exploited by opportunists
FRANCIS S NIIAn entry in The Crocodile PrizePNG Chamber of Mines & PetroleumAward for Essays & JournalismTHE callous exploitation of disabled persons by able people as objects for economic gain...
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Unitech students ask world universities to help resolve dispute
KEITH JACKSONIN an open letter to the heads of scores of eminent universities in the English-speaking world, students and staff of PNG’s University of Technology (Unitech) have sought their help to...
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Juffa calls on PNGns to go beyond rhetoric & resist injustice & evil
GARY JUFFA MPIN PNG, good will be attacked, and attacked vehemently, by evil and this is certainly something we should all be aware of by now.It is becoming more and more evident that, when those who...
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Will Unitech staff be tempted to sell out the students & their cause?
UNITECH STAFF ANALYST | PNG BlogsUNITECH students seem very strong indeed in pursuing their goal to bring back the Unitech vice-chancellor.Vice-chancellor Albert Schram has always been our VC, he has...
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Bougainville Manifesto 11: Truth & reconciliation
LEONARD FONG ROKABOUGAINVILLEANS narrow-mindedly celebrate 15 June as a day of some form of political establishment, which was achieved by the multilateral peace process since 1997. The peace process...
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The Flame of the Forest
MICHAEL DOMAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryNo more you flame, where forefathers Spied your furtive flare from afar, Amidst green canopies, piled higher, The Flame of the...
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Scope for new, ethical PNG political party. Is Gary Juffa the man?
PAUL OATESNO problem can be effectively addressed unless the reasons why the problem exists are understood.Official corruption is not just a PNG problem. It exists all over the world. However, wherever...
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Unitech dialogue with PNG govt reps fails to gain common ground
These wonderfully descriptive notes are from a UNITECH STUDENT FORUM held yesterday afternoon from 1 - 5.30 pm at the PNG University of Technology in Lae. They are reproduced here in fullSTUDENT...
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Abbott to meet ‘emerging leaders’ – for a corruption discussion?
KEITH JACKSONAUSTRALIAN prime minister Tony Abbott arrived in Port Moresby last night on a three day visit to hold talks with prime minister Peter O’Neill.“Papua New Guinea is Australia’s nearest...
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'If anything happens to me, I want you to look after your mother'
KEITH JACKSONA STATE funeral is being in Brisbane this morning for Hon Warwick Parer AM, whose obituary appeared in PNG Attitude earlier this week. Warwick was a Senator for Queensland from 1984-2000...
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Do not be silent: A heartfelt note to the future leaders of PNG
Aware that the tentacles of corruption now reach far into the PNG body politic, GARY JUFFA often finds himself as a lone political voice crying out for change. His reward, as we at PNG Attitude have...
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There's a price to pay for our indebtedness to PNG
STEPHEN HOWES | The AustralianNOW Tony Abbott is in Papua New Guinea, we can expect a lot of talk in public about growing business relations between PNG and Australia, and to hear the old refrain of...
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Two views of Tony Abbott, PNG and the Manus question
PETER KRANZAS PNG Attitude readers are well aware, Australian prime minister Tony Abbott is visiting Papua New Guinea at present.You might have expected him to bring leading tropical health experts, or...
View ArticleDays without you two
CECILIA BULAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryFor my dear beloved parents, I miss you two every dayHow often now, the photographs and the memories Of the times we have...
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Mainstream press echoes government propaganda on Unitech saga
FORMER PNG JOURNALIST | PNG BlogsPNG’s standard of journalism as practiced by our national newspapers has been on serious decline for at least the last 10 yearsProbably their lowest point came in 2012...
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The root of selfishness
ISHMAEL PALIPALAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryThese goods are not many so they won’t be enough for all I can only use them for myself there are not enough for manyThe...
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Leonard’s story - conflict, complexity, barbarity & courage
KRISTIAN LASSLETT | Foreword to BrokenvilleBrokenville by Leonard Fong Roka, Available from Amazon in Kindle edition, 176 pp, $3.00, ASIN B00J4AJND2. Paperback coming soonNEVER has a war, so unique in...
View ArticleAbbott & O’Neill: Soothsayers or able to see into the mind of God?
KEITH JACKSON“MOST aren't genuine refugees,” so say prime ministers Tony Abbott and Peter O’Neill – voicing publicly their view that most asylum seekers detained in concentration camp conditions on...
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Pioneering family: The story of the audacious Parers of New Guinea
MARY MENNIS MBETHE Parer family, originally from Alella in Spain, were the anchor of the Catalan community in Australia for 50 years.The first brother to leave Spain was Josep, who decided to migrate...
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