Ben’s PNG Diary – Day 2: The poetry of Tok Pisin
ON THE WAY TO the annual Poetry Slam at Moresby Arts Theatre, I asked my gracious friend/tour guide/bodyguard Martyn Namorong why all advertisements around Port Moresby are in English and never Tok...
View ArticlePipe dream for PNG water in central Queensland
LIAM PARSONS | The Cairns Post CENTRAL QUEENSLAND COULD BE the recipient of a massive drink of more than 3,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of water each day if one Cairns businessman Fred Ariel...
View ArticleThe man I call corruption
ISHMAEL PALIPAL It’s been such a long time since we got to be ourselves It’s been years and years ago But still you remain the same It’s been about 10 years now since we came to be ourselves We thought...
View ArticleForced labour trafficking & sex exploitation rife in PNG
THIN LEI WIN | TrustLaw WOMEN AND GIRLS in Papua New Guinea are being trafficked for sexual exploitation, forced labour and domestic servitude within the country and across international borders,...
View ArticleSonet 10: ‘lele ino mo laikim pinga blong mi
MICHAEL DOM Long taim mi paitim ‘lele bilong mi fopla string stap long pinga bilong mi mekim swit mo yet singsing bilong mi. Bihain mi raun long paitim trabel man long narapela hap, Buka ailan. Mi stap...
View ArticleA guide to the PNG expat: Pasin bilong ol waitman
PHIL FITZPATRICK MANY OF THE RESOURCE developers and entrepreneurs coming to Papua New Guinea conduct cultural awareness training for their staff. The idea is to give their staff some understanding of...
View ArticleBen’s PNG Diary – Day 3: The Bougainville Copper AGM
BEN JACKSON WELL IT GOT MORE SERIOUS today as I attended the Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) annual general meeting, at which chairman Peter Taylor reiterated optimism about the reopening of the...
View ArticleNever throw your heart away
DAVID GONOL I STRUGGLED TO UNDERSTAND why Mupuna committed suicide when a young man whom she loved announced the end of their relationship. I was further mystified when Korowi suffered nervous shock...
View ArticlePNG Attitude’s most commented upon stories in March
KEITH JACKSON IT WAS A GREAT MONTH for readers’ comments, our best ever, helped along by yet another surge in reader numbers and the delightful PNG Studies 1 students of Divine Word University. Their...
View ArticleThe helicopter attack on Kupe & Kepetu's capture
LEONARD FONG ROKA | Supported by the Jeff Febi Writing Fellowship Leonard Roka continues his occasional series of first person accounts of events in the late 1980s civil war between PNG and...
View ArticleThe Kumul Holdings mystery - where are safeguards?
BLAIR PRICE | PNGIndustryNews.net THERE are concerns about the “closed door” nature of recently unveiled Papua New Guinea government plans to consolidate its mining, petroleum and business assets into...
View ArticlePNG Kumul asset restructuring leads to real concerns
PAUL OATES WILL PRIME MINISTER PETER O’NEILL and the former Papua New Guinea PM's be paying for their shares in Kumul Holdings (see story below) or are these shares held in trust for the nation? If...
View ArticleBen’s PNG Diary - Day 4: A few things about Sil Bolkin
BEN JACKSON EARLIER TODAY I SPENT A COUPLE of hours with Kela Kapkora Sil Bolkin at his office in Port Moresby. Sil is policy and planning coordinator for the National AIDS Council, an organisation...
View ArticleOvau is my island
LEONARD FONG ROKA | Supported by the Jeff Febi Writing Fellowship IN 2005, STANDING ON the romantic beach at Olava in Buin, I was shocked by what I saw; a peaceful complete Northern Solomons of...
View ArticleNew office to weed out the quick buck merchants
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL THERE ARE HOPES that a new investment office planned for Bougainville will weed out entrepreneurs trying to make a quick buck from the island's rich resources. New...
View ArticlePooling of sovereignty is in Pacific interest: Morauta
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Development Policy Blog Tess got a chance to meet with Sir Mekere Morauta whilst he was in Port Vila recently. You can listen to the podcast of their conversation here and read the...
View ArticleDeakin reflections: On power & Melanesian elasticity
MARTYN NAMORONG | Supported by the Chalapi Pomat Writing Fellowship Martyn attended the Deakin conference with substantial support from PNG Attitude readers, his workmates at Ok Tedi Mining Ltd as well...
View ArticleMy Story: The wartime child becomes a peacetime kiap
13 – BOB CLELAND I WAS BORN IN 1931 IN PERTH, Western Australia, into the Great Depression of the 1930s. My brother Evan was born in 1935. Life was tough, I’m told, but I thought it normal – it was...
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The 15,000th comment to PNG Attitude - Wednesday 10 April, 2013, 6.42 pm It slipped by almost unnoticed yesterday – the 15,000th reader comment to PNG Attitude. In reproducing it here, we pay tribute...
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