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Danger closes in from Covid mutations
JAKE JOHNSON| Common Dreams | EditedIn early March, just before Papua New Guinea experienced a shocking spike in Covid-19 cases, PNG Attitude reported that Australia had joined other Western countries...
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A true musical treat this Easter
KEITH JACKSONNOOSA – Well here’s a pleasant something for Easter. You can read about it just below or listen to it first by linking to it here.I recommend you listen...
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Looking back at a look back & a look forward
ANDREW CONNELLY| Oceania vol 85 no 1, March 2015Australians in Papua New Guinea:1960–1975. Edited by Ceridwen Spark, Seumas Spark and Christina Twomey, University of Queensland Press, 2014.CANBERRA -...
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Forget political parity, put women in charge
The PNG parliament - 111 seats and exactly zero womenPHILIP FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - Those men in Australia’s ruling Liberal-National coalition are currently recoiling at the idea of introducing quotas...
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Sweet, beautiful, historic Finschhafen
HAZEL KUTKUE| Sipikriva GirlFINSCHHAFEN - I always considered doing rural medicine after Dr David Mills gave a talk to us at the University of Papua New Guinea’s Taurama Campus in 2016.Sitting in the...
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Marape promises but corruption continues
Rita Flynn Isolation Centre in Port Moresby - scene of the latest rip-off by public servants raises questions about Marape's willingness to rein in corruptionEDDIE TANAGO| Act Now!PORT MORESBY - The...
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Why we must give our vaccine to PNG
JACK WATERFORD| Pearls & Irritations | Edited extractCANBERRA - Our neighbours in Papua New Guinea are heading towards a pandemic crisis, and we are diverting some of our supplies to them. Some...
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Australia & PNG’s unfolding Covid disaster
PNG's Rainbo Paita welcomed China’s offer of Sinovac vaccine earlier this year (“a friend in need is a friend indeed”) but later backed away. Did someone in Australia have some words?PROF JOHN DWYER|...
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April fool cruelty in a time of Covid
Michael Yahu in front of his village house in ManusDANIEL KUMBONPORT MORESBY – For a while I did not realise that Good Friday was April Fool’s Day and joined my family to cry when I received news that...
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The mystery of the bloodless forearm
RAYMOND SIGIMETFICTION - I was looking through patient admission records before my evening ten o'clock ward rounds when a vehicle roared into sight. Its emergency blinkers flashed brightly on the...
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Review: The diaries of Mikloucho-Maclay
Nikolai Nikolaevich Mikloucho-MaclayBRADLEY GEWA| Academia Nomad | EditedGrand Chief Sir Michael Somare’s death on 26 February created renewed interest in a neglected subject – the history of Papua New...
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Second book blues, but after that it’s easy
PHILIP FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - Writing the first book is hard but believe me it’s the second one that is really challenging, especially if the first has been a success.In that second book you have to...
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Women in politics: Dare to challenge
Ingrid Jackson on women in politics: "Stay true to your values. Be accessible to the community. Muster your courage. Remain gracious and empathetic"INGRID JACKSONNOOSA - At an International Women’s Day...
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The colony Australia tries to forget
Hoisting the British flag at Port Moresby, 1888ALLAN PATIENCE| Pearls & IrritationsMELBOURNE - Australia’s ham-handed history of colonialism, in what today is the independent state of Papua New...
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The ginger bread man
DUNCAN GABIFICTION - It was just two weeks before the Grade 10 national exams and everyone was freaking out, especially those like me who weren’t prepared.Some students collected as many notes as...
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The Sunday sermon
RAYMOND SIGIMETFICTION - I heard the knocking and a call around six just as I was preparing notes for tomorrow’s sermon. I knew it was Pita, the son of the parish chairman, Mathias. Occasionally he’s...
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Review: Sean Dorney’s book is full of insight
Pauline and Sean Dorney. "This book, even though written by an Australian, is the PNG voice speaking to Australia"TANYA ZERIGA-ALONE| Academia NomadThe death of Michael Somare on 26 February renewed...
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Musing on the death of Prince Philip
Brittania in Kieta Harbour with Prince Philip on board, April 1971. It is anchored behind a freighter waiting to dock at Kieta wharf (right) (Terence Spencer)KEITH JACKSONNOOSA – Early on the morning...
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Social safety net saves us, but we need more
PNG consumer price index 2018-21JOHN KURIPORT MORESBY - Ten years ago, a bag of 10kg rice cost something like K20. Today, stores sell a 10kg rice bag for between K31 and K35. Ten years ago a live...
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Covid & misinformation unnerve us in PNG
Bernadette Yakopa - "Papua New Guineans are resilient people, but this is something different altogether"BERNADETTE YAKOPA| Australian Broadcasting CorporationDARU - Here in Western Province in Papua...
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