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'Bloodlust hysteria': sorcery accusations a brutal death sentence
Helen DavidsonHELEN DAVIDSON | The Guardian | Edited extractsRead Helen Davidson’s full article herePORT MORESBY - In 2008 a man died of malaria in Togoba, in Papua New Guinea’s highlands region....
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Last days: A Bit na Ta reminds us of forgotten links to PNG
Tolai men with sacred tubuan objects perform a ritual Kinawai dance ceremony in the early hours of the morning on a Bit Na Ta, Blanche Bay (G Kakabin)HELEN GARDNER | The ConversationMELBOURNE - It is...
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Inside commercial television – a grumpy old man tells
PHIL FITZPATRICKTelevision ViewerTUMBY BAY - I’ve hit a bit of a log jam with the current book I’m writing and I thought it best to leave it alone for a week while it sorts itself out in the backwaters...
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Those PNG kiaps – small in number, big in nation-building
Newly recruited cadet patrol officers (liklik kiaps) at Kwikila in 1967ROSS WILKINSONMELBOURNE - I’ve been called a number of things in my time - including ‘kiap’ with varying degrees of sneer and...
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Ex kiap & respected businessman Alan McLay dies at 72
KEITH JACKSONNOOSA – The death on Wednesday night of esteemed Lae businessman Alan McLay so soon after the death of Highlands icon Terry Shelley has deepened the sadness of the Papua New Guinean...
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The politics of memory – there are no elephants in PNG
PHIL FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - In a democracy politicians are supposed to be the servants of the people. In essence they are expected to represent the will of the people.For this reason the parliament is...
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Writing for a cross cultural readership - some tips
Phil FitzpatrickPHIL FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - One of the things I tell aspiring fiction writers is to keep their sentences short and simple and to avoid using big words.The logic is simple. You have to...
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New Alliance Party recruits 1,000 members in 24 hours
BRYAN KRAMER | The Alliance PartyBryan Kramer MPMADANG – Papua New Guinea’s latest political party, The Alliance, has racked up 1,000 new members since it announced the availability of online...
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Explaining the sorcery killing epidemic – are pastors to blame?
Phillip Kai MorrePHILIP KAI MORRE & GARRY ROCHEPastors must stop talking about evil spiritsPHILIP KAI MORREKUNDIAWA - More research needs to be done on sorcery as this is a grave human rights...
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Staying alive…. Unsolicited advice from an old fart
Inspector Hari Metau (aka Phil Fitzpatrick)PHIL FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - Our esteemed master of ceremonies at PNG Attitude turned 73 two days ago. That’s his allotted three score years and ten plus three...
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BCL hits Panguna hurdle: Momis says it ‘needs a social license’
Mothers unite against re-opening the Panguna mineSTAFF REPORTER | Radio New Zealand Pacific | EditedWELLINGTON - The president of the Autonomous Bougainville Government, Dr John Momis, says mining...
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Reprising Sil Bolkin – an essayist of significance & substance
Sil BolkinPHIL FITZPATRICKOriginally published in PNG Attitude in February 2017TUMBY BAY - Kela Kapkora Sil Bolkin has been a consistent and popular contributor to PNG Attitude and the Crocodile Prize...
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Media reports on Panguna landowners are misleading
Axel G SturmAXEL G STURM | President, European Shareholders of Bougainville CopperANDORRA – On Monday the PNG Post-Courier published a remarkable article about the situation on Bougainville and the...
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‘My Walk to Equality’: One year down. What next?
RASHMII BELLBRISBANE - Today is the one year anniversary of Pukpuk Publication’s release of My Walk to Equality, Papua New Guinea’s milestone volume of essays, short story and poetry written entirely...
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Travelling home: A thicket of thugs, thieves & dopeheads
KELA KAPKORA SIL BOLKINThe PMV pick upPORT MORESBY – The Kundiawa airstrip has been out of action and Chimbus working elsewhere in Papua New Guinea and abroad travelling back to their tribal lands must...
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Foreign exchange PNG’s most urgent problem: World Bank
Marcel SchroderMARCEL SCHRÖDER | Development Policy Centre | EditedRead the full version of the article hereCANBERRA - The World Bank recently released the first biannual report of its newly launched...
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Singautim ol narapela kain man na meri redi na kam
PHIL FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - The response to my article on kiaps being ‘narapela kain man’ - at last count more than 1,200 Likes - has been surprising.It seems to me that that strong reaction packaged...
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Chief justice attack: sorcery perpetrators act with public support
Chief Justice Sir Salamo InjiaHELEN DAVIDSON | Guardian Australia | ExtractsRead the full story herePORT MORESBY - Papua New Guinea’s chief justice has been ambushed and attacked in another incident...
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Why redevelop Panguna’s mine now? It can be banked
PAUL FLANAGANPaul FlanaganCANBERRA - Are we sure, as Axel Sturm asserts in PNG Attitude, that "one thing is for sure: Without revenues from the Panguna mine under the leadership of BCL that is owned by...
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We need a new, mature partnership with PNG & the Pacific
Senator Concetta Fierravanti-WellsKEITH JACKSONNOOSA - When Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific Concetta Fierravanti-Wells this week said China was constructing "useless...
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