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The secret public life of an author
PHILIP FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - If you write books, people will seek you out.They will write letters to you, send you emails and come knocking at your door.Even if my abject and humble efforts have had...
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Oz announces urgent Covid help to PNG
Australia's foreign minister Payne and prime minister Morrison at this morning's media conference in Canberra (Channel 9)MEDIA CONFERENCE| Transcribed by Peacifica | EditedPeacifica supports and...
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MSF: Australia blocked early PNG vaccine
Port Moresby residents line up at Rita Flynn sports complex to get Covid tests (Kalolaine Fainu - The Guardian)LYNDAL ROWLANDS| Guardian Australia | ExtractsSYDNEY - Papua New Guinea could have...
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Covid in PNG: I hope Canberra understands
Medical staff at a health clinic (Alex Ellinghausen)CHRIS OVERLANDADELAIDE - It is little short of astounding that the Australian government has, until now at least, utterly failed to grasp the...
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Mola: Soon people could die in parking lots
St John’s Ambulance member sanitises hands at Covid testing at Taurama Aquatic Centre (Kalolaine Fainu - The Guardian)GLEN MOLA| Guardian AustraliaPORT MORESBY - At Port Moresby General Hospital, about...
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My Spear and My Bilum
RAYMOND SIGIMETI came from my father’s spear This spear came down generations He alone could hold this spear From his father and father’s fatherAs a man amongst his people His spear gave me name and...
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The old man, his wife & the young girl
Writers Baka Bina, Daniel Kumbon and Jimmy Drekore, Gembogl, Simbu Province, 2016DANIEL KUMBONWABAG - I have published many books based on facts and actual events, but I haven’t yet attempted a novel....
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Violence against women: an Australian failure
Women's March 4 Justice in Canberra on MondayALEX McINTYRESYDNEY - There were no mixed messages about violence against women from Australia’s former foreign minister Julie Bishop when she launched the...
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Sana, Now I Understand Your Dream
GEMBA RAYMOND DEWANEDedicated to Lady Veronica SomareI could have found a man in a millionBut faith has found me millions in a manI have no idea what was in your mindI just kept faith in your constant...
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Remembered: Michael Somare’s escape from Rabaul
A Philippines double outrigger canoe (Mariners Museum, Virginia, USA)CAPTAIN STEVEN JOLLYALI ISLAND - I want to share with you all a special tribute to our late great Great Grand Chief Sir Michael T...
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The mythologising of Michael Somare
PHILIP FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - It’s ironic that in his death Michael Somare seems to have united Papua New Guinea in a way that he could never achieve while he was alive.Some of this is owed to the cult...
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Dealing with violence against women in politics
REPORT| National Democratic Institute | ExtractLink here to the full reportThe National Democratic Institute (NDI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nongovernmental organisation that since its founding in...
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Call for PNG to accept Chinese vaccines
ERYK BAGSHAW & RACHEL CLUNwith BEVAN SHIELDS| Sydney Morning Herald | ExtractsSYDNEY - Two of Australia’s top infectious disease and immunology experts say Papua New Guinea should take up the offer...
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Covid-19: real, serious, agonising & here
Simon Pentanu - 'Covid is not nice. I would not wish it on anyone'SIMON PENTANU MPBUKA – It is not a conspiracy. It is not fake. It does not choose between nationalities, race or countries. Covid-19 is...
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The death of Somare & the descent of PNG
Kavali, Somare, Chan and Guise in 1973 - independence leaders whose idealism was compromised by the realities and opportunities of governmentALLAN PATIENCE| John Menadue’s Pearls &...
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They’re blowin’ smoke up our arses
MICHAEL DOMYesterday was International Poetry Day and Papua New Guinea’s unofficial poet laureate, Michael Dom, hauled out his trusted, rusted, almost busted Olivetti typewriter to do justice to the...
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Local authors need recognition & support
ILLEANA MALDOA DOMWinning entry in Ples Singsing Blog Essay Contest edited for publication by Keith JacksonThe last time I entered my now former school library was in November last year during one of...
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Women triumph in first essay contest
PATRICK LEVO & KEITH JACKSONPORT MORESBY – On behalf of the Ples Singsing Blog, and having cast our tired but sparkling eyes over the organisation of the Tingting Bilong Mi essay contest, we are...
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Essay contest delivered some useful lessons
KEITH JACKSONNOOSA – The inaugural Tingting Bilong Mi [My Opinion] essay contest for Papua New Guinean writers under the age of 35 resulted in some great writing.The contest was the brainchild of Dr...
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Some truths to Canberra about PNG Covid
PAUL OATESCLEVELAND QLD - The widening credibility gap between Canberra and Papua New Guinea is not just about how aid is or has been previously spent. PNG Attitude and others of us have been banging...
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