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The mysterious Citizenship PNG Unit is on the prowl
Geoffrey LuckGEOFFREY LUCKSYDNEY - Our daughter was born in Port Moresby in 1958 during my first term of service in Papua New Guinea. Recently, she applied to renew her Australian passport, six months...
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Transnational crime - The case of the shipload of cough mixture
ALLYN HICKSSYDNEY - Recently an Indonesian national was convicted of attempting to smuggle into Australia a large quantity of cough medicine. The reason authorities were interested in this product was...
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Remembering Jack McCarthy: letters of historic importance
ROB PARER & FRANZALBERT JOKURobert Lenton Parer CMG MBE is by adoption and upbringing a man of the West Sepik, a member of a great Australian family which is famous in Papua New Guinean mining and...
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PNG promises come to nought, & Bougainville is getting anxious
President John MomisEDITOR | Radio New Zealand PacificAUCKLAND – Bougainville’s president John Momis has raised concerns that the Papua New Guinea government is not pulling its weight as the autonomous...
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New study reveals dangers inherent in land registration
New oil palm planting and mill near Pomio in East New BritainMEDIA DESK | Act NowBOROKO - Customary land registration processes can easily be captured by local ‘big men’ and companies with disastrous...
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Justice for the Kanakas: Australia’s ‘invisible’ Melanesians
South Sea islanders (kanakas) pose in front of a house in Mackay, Queensland, 1907. Kanaka was a Hawaiian word meaning 'human being'FRANK JORDAN | Australian HumanistBRISBANE - In 1901 the Commonwealth...
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STAFF CORRESPONDENT | Human Rights Watch SYDNEY –On 19 July 2013, then Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd announced that any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat would have “no chance of...
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Interfaith conference pursues Melanesian theological identity
Water lily pond at the Pacific Adventist University just outside Port MoresbySIMON DAVIDSONPORT MORESBY - The Melanesia Association of Theological Schools conference, held last week at the Pacific...
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Bougainville, independence & the doctrine of ‘stare decisis’
CHRIS OVERLANDADELAIDE - In 1977, as a young and ambitious ex-kiap turned proper public servant, I sought and obtained appointment to the apparently important position of Chief Clerk of the South...
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Not always easy, not always nice, but look where we are
The Chimbu ValleyMATHIAS KINKUNDIAWA - From the north coast our ancestors climbed into the mountains arriving here in the Chimbu more than 24,000 years ago. They operated in small groups and freely...
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Therapeutic
WARDLEY D I BARRYPoems are those odd things that keep us afloat; wattles on water, three bulls on a boat. Hither we sail, Here-A-Little and There. A gift: the pond offers us to the moon as a...
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Oz voice in the Asia–Pacific: foreign policy & media revolutions
Graeme DobellGRAEME DOBELL | Australian Strategic Policy InstituteCANBERRA - The wrack and roil afflicting the international system matches the digital disruption of news media. The rules and norms of...
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Big timber buyer China is ignoring destruction of PNG forests
China says it's a friend of PNG, but does it respect culture, livelihood and biosphere by destroying forests? (Global Witness)NEWS DESK | Global WitnessLONDON – Anti-corruption NGO Global Witness has...
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The reappearance of polio in Papua New Guinea
LINDABETH DOBY | The Borgen ProjectSEATTLE, USA - A polio outbreak was reported in Papua New Guinea. This is the first time polio has been seen in the country in nearly two decades, and an especially...
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Getting the numbers: How Somare won the 1972 election
Robert Forster - author of the just published 'The Northumbrian Kiap'ROBERT FORSTERNORTHUMBRIA - In the 1972 Papua New Guinea elections there were 102 seats in the House of Assembly. The conservative,...
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The Painting of a Black Woman
Ward BarryWARDLEY D I BARRYI once painted a black woman naked; kaukau in her hand, the earth for her bed. I dabbed a little kabang on her cheeks and made her mind strong but left her mouth meek.I took...
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PNGDF & police gear up security for APEC meeting
First Pacific Islands Regiment on a 27 km route march as part of its combat fitness trainingLI XIA | XinhuaPORT MORESBY- Papua New Guinea has geared up its land, sea and air security support services...
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Deferral of elections is assault on democracy, says Transparency
Many hundreds of Papua New Guineans in Port Moresby and other cities walked against corruption in recent protest rallies throughout the countryKEITH JACKSONPORT MORESBY - Transparency International PNG...
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The day Peter O'Neill called me a moron, a raskol & a snake
Peter O'Neill and Bryan Kramer - in Kramer O'Neill has found an ethical MP with the courage to take him on and the gall to make him lose his coolBRYAN KRAMERPORT MORESBY – On a notable day last week,...
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Komo landowners give govt ‘last warning’ - “no more excuses”
Komo airport - massive resources asset threatened with shutdown unless landowners get their moneyKEITH JACKSON | Pacific Media Centre | EMTV | SourcesHELA - Komo international airport landowners in...
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