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This flawed election – could it open up a new political era?
KEITH JACKSONDESPITE the many observed (not by the official observers it seems) indications of election rigging– ballot box manipulation, ballot paper rorting, vote buying, election manager malfeasance...
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By Fair Means But More Likely Foul
JIMMY AWAGLThe 2017 common roll hijacked Ballot papers manipulated PNC Party deliberately plannedTo undermine every election process In the interests of a single politician To lead the country by means...
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Angus (Gus) Smales, doyen of Pacific journalism, dies at 87
PETER SMALESLAST week Monday 10 July, Gus Smales, a doyen of Australia-Pacific journalism, died peacefully in Mt Eliza, Victoria. His funeral will be held this Thursday 20 July in Mount Martha,...
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The big rort – 300,000 ghost voters & mathematical impossibilities
PAUL FLANAGANSTATISTICAL indicators suggest that Papua New Guinea’s O’Neill government used its power of incumbency to ‘cook the books’ in its favour in the current election.Comparing the 2017...
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Election-related corruption originated from electoral commission
FRANCIS NIITHE title of this article may raise eyebrows but I believe I have evidence to show it is factual and I suspect that electoral commissioner Patilius Gamato is likely to be knowingly involved....
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Is western civilisation in decline?
CHRIS OVERLANDI HAVE just finished reading J H Breasted's magisterial work Ancient Times: A History of the Early World, first published in 1916. In this book, Breasted traces the rise and fall of a...
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PNG drives away its Australian friends as a result of this election
PHIL FITZPATRICKAS the revelations about the 2017 elections keep rolling in, I’m finding myself reluctantly agreeing with those observers who are labelling it the worst ever election in Papua New...
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Jackson is right – this election can yield positive outcomes
DR CLEMENT MALAULIKE Keith Jackson, I believe there will be a lot of positive outcomes from this election. Reading the different messages on social media and the reported cases of citizens standing up...
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UPNG students struggled to have voices heard at election
ELIZAH PALME | Asia Pacific ReportUNIVERSITY of Papua New Guinea students have spoken through the ballot box in spite of being provided with 2,000 ballot papers less than required and discrepancies in...
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Mantra of Solace
FRANCIS NIIThis verse is offered as a consolation for the many candidates in the 2017 Papua New Guinean national election who have been physically affected and psychologically hurt by its challenges...
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Incumbency in Papua New Guinea: the minuses & the pluses
BILL STANDISH | Devpolicy BlogTHE prolonged vote counting in Papua New Guinea’s election provides a slight hiatus to consider political incumbency – the benefits of holding office and its potential...
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Western powers anxious as crisis around elections deepens
JOHN BRADDOCK | World Socialist Website | ExtractsFOLLOWING the resignation of Papua New Guinea’s electoral advisory committee last week, the crisis surrounding the country’s parliamentary elections...
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"I don't look like a tomato, I'm a human being,” says Gamato
STEFAN ARMBRUSTER | SBS World NewsA PAPUA New Guinea newspaper has published the full claim for a gag order by the country's electoral commissioner Patilias Gamato against an anti-corruption campaigner...
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Sorcery blamed for missing votes in Sepik election count
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONALALLEGATIONS of sorcery may have forced a recount of votes in some Papua New Guinea electorates.Reports fromthe Angoram and Yangoru-Saussia electorates in East Sepik...
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Last remaining copies of Kevin Parer’s memoirs made available
ROB PARERMY cousin Kevin Parer is same age as me and lived in Wau and Wewak before World War II.His father, also Kevin, owned and operate three aircraft in the Parer Air Service which was based in...
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How to stop PNC from forming the next government
FRANCIS NIITHERE is a possibility to stop Peter O’Neill and the People’s National Congress Party from forming the next government after writs are returned, however it is up to all other parties and...
View ArticleBougainville announces historic revenue & tax summit
ANTHONY KAYBING | Office of the PresidentBOUGAINVILLE president John Momis has announced Bougainville will convene an historic revenue and tax summit to investigate ways of improving the autonomous...
View ArticleAustralia & PNG: let’s hold the education system up to scrutiny
JAKUB MAJEWSKII BELIEVE I can shed some light on why the Australian media doesn't properly report on Papua New Guinea. I'm a PhD student and lecturer at a Bond University in Australia, having spent...
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PNG govt & local MPs drag feet on B'ville referendum readyiness
LEONARD ROKAAN Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) paper entitled, Motion setting out the process to declare Constituency Referendum Ready, dated 7 September 2016 states in Paragraph 1 that the...
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Camelot in the Wahgi Valley
Anna: My life from a coffee plantation in Papua New Guinea to the shores of Byron Bay, by Anna Middleton, published by the author 2017, ISBN: 978-00994555298. Available from the author for $29.95. WHEN...
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