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Commodore Sam Bateman's 'heart for the PNG Navy'
Commodore Sam Bateman - a leading maritime strategist and friend of Papua New GuineaVICE ADMIRAL PETER JONES| President, Australian Naval Institute | EditedSYDNEY - On 18 October 2020 Commodore Sam...
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Toroama happy with Eivo-Torau reconciliation
President Toroama says the rights of people as resource owners come firstANTHONY KAYBING|Office of the ABG PresidentBUKA – Bougainville president Ishmael Toroama has welcomed the efforts by the...
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Other priorities outweigh K10m to startup
Deborah Ruth Telek says right thinking Papua New Guineans would say no to the BioMed Covid drug proposalDEBORAH RUTH TELEK| My Land, My CountryPORT MORESBY - We cannot even get National Agriculture...
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K10m to BioMed “a total waste of funds”
Dr Bomai Kerenga - Argues that individual countries must fend for themselves against the Covid-19 pandemic and PNG is no exception.REBECCA KUKU| The Guardian | Judith Nielson InstitutePORT MORESBY -...
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Eivo Torau: reconciliation & development
ANTHONY KAYBINGEivo Torau women bear gifts of food at the civil war reconciliation ceremonyBUKA - The Eivo Torau Constituency in Central Bougainville has conducted six reconciliation ceremonies to...
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From grass houses to those PNG McMansions
Apeke Taso built his house in his village in the war torn Tsak Valley. Many educated elites from the Tsak Valley have also built country homes in their villagesPHILIP FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - Daniel...
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Toroama & Marape get down to business
President Ishmael Toroama meets prime minister James Marape at Buka in SeptemberANTHONY KAYBING| Office of the ABG PresidentBUKA – Bougainville president Ishmael Toroama will confer with Papua New...
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Australia’s damaging China witch hunt
SU-LIN TAN| South China Morning Post | Edited extractLink to the full article hereAustralia anti-Chinese megaphone diplomacy (toned down just a little recently) has caused offence to China which has...
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Reforming a parliament of only men
The main chamber of PNG's parliament house which has 111 seats for members of parliament but at the last election could find no room for womenNEWS DESK| PNG National Research InstituteNRI Discussion...
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Warning to Australia: Don’t underestimate PNG
Corney Alone tells Australia, "We're not going to sing a backward-leaning Kumbaya with you"CORNEY KOROKAN ALONEAustralia’s recently ramped-up megaphoned hostility to its biggest trading partner China...
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Marape’s new approach to foreign investment
PNG's Lihir gold mineRONALD MAY| Pearls & Irritations | Edited extractsYou can link here to the full articleCANBERRA - The Marape government’s approach to foreign investment – and to governance...
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China: unquestioning obedience or mutual respect?
CHRIS OVERLANDADELAIDE - Corney Alone raised a number of important and hideously complex issues in yesterday’s article, ‘Warning to Oz: Don’t underestimate PNG’.Australia's policy towards West Papua is...
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PNG too close to ignore, but what to do?
STEPHEN HOWES| DevPolicy Blog‘Too Close to Ignore: Australia’s Borderland with PNG and Indonesia’ by Mark Moran, Jodie Curth-Bibb, Melbourne University Press, March 2020, pp 312. ISBN 9780522875478....
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Melanesians & Australians must safeguard freedom
A transmigrasi village in West PapuaJOHN GREENSHIELDSADELAIDE - In 1975 I went from Papua New Guinea, where we were working, to Irian Jaya and Indonesia. Nothing prepared us for the scene in Jayapura....
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A solution is available to a run-down Fly
Mouth of the Fly RiverSTEPHEN CHARTERISBANGKOK - I read with interest Professor Howes' assessment of the huge disparity in the provision of services between communities in the Torres Strait Islands and...
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The mysteriously blank face of DFAT
PHILIP FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - It has always been a commonly held belief that politicians don’t run the country. That prerogative is exclusively the domain of the public service.Anyone who has ever...
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Joe Biden’s deep connection with PNG
Joe Biden - his uncle Ambrose was killed when his aircraft was shot down in PNG in World War II and his body never foundKEITH JACKSONNOOSA – United States’ president-elect Joe Biden is well acquainted...
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How Australian literature could flourish
GAIL JONES|The Conversation | Edited extractsSYDNEY - Literary culture carries profound social value. It is essential to employment, cultural literacy and understanding of community as well as to...
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Our country is being taken away from us
SCOTT WAIDE| My Land, My CountryLAE - How much of the economy do we own? All the prime shop spaces in our towns and cities are owned by foreigners. Can we easily get financing for a business? No. If we...
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Leaders plan format for Bougainville's next steps
James Marape and Ishmael Toroama - trying to get substantive talks goingANTHONY KAYBINGBUKA – Papua New Guinea prime minister James Marape and Bougainville president Ishmael Toroama met in Port Moresby...
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