I am home: Bougainville is my freedom country
LEONARD FONG ROKA THE MOMENT THE Air Niugini flight came to a halt in front of Buka airport terminal at 11am on 24 October, I rushed out of the sitting bird and was quickly sucked up by a gust of...
View ArticleCurrency colonialism: Kina is our economy’s heart, not a plaything
DR KALLUWAN M POHON PAPUA NEW GUINEANS have paid scant regard to their currency, and its value, for far too much time. Most people have left it as a subject in the sole domain of central bankers and...
View ArticlePato says Davis deported after he ‘became involved in politics’
AAP | RNZI IMMIGRATION MINISTER RIMBINK PATO has told journalists in Port Moresby that PNGSDP spokesman Mark Davis had his PNG visa cancelled after he breached visa conditions and became involved in...
View ArticleCabbage
CHIPS MACKELLAR BOGIA WAS THE HEADQUARTERS of a sub-district of the same name in the Madang District. Bogia administered the lower reaches of the Ramu River and a few off-shore islands, the largest of...
View ArticlePolitical Fusion
LAPIEH LANDU An entry in the Kina Securities Poetry Award of The Crocodile Prize 2014 Is it the desire for power? Or is it the yearning for common good? Our leaders at war against each other Amidst it...
View Article1000s more settlers face eviction in the name of development
KRISTIAN LASSLETT HERE WE GO AGAIN! This time it’s the 3,754 residents of Port Moresby’s Arts Centre community facing eviction. In Thursday’s Post-Courier the developer claimed this ‘necessary’ step...
View ArticleNamah goes on attack; says Task Force Sweep may be shut down
KEITH JACKSON PNG OPPOSITION LEADER Belden Namah has called on prime minister Peter O’Neill to “stop playing games and own up” to a corruption scandal in which Namah alleges Mr O’Neill and two of his...
View ArticleAs elite carve up national wealth, Namorong out on his own
MARTYN NAMORONG | The Namorong Report HAVING LIVED THE PAST FEW MONTHS in a blissful alcohol infused existence, for me a sobering moment was reading in the newspapers of the sidelining of three senior...
View ArticleHanuabada: This is where you find the soul of cricket...
ADAM & BARRIE CASSIDY | The Drum | ABC THE MAIN ROAD through Hanuabada village on the outskirts of Port Moresby is really the only open space among the thousands of wooden huts with their rusted...
View Article–|Life|+
MICHAEL DOM I recall how I had surveyed you, guardedly from a rocky peak, And why I left the shelter of the mountains, for you. How we wandered on those plains together, Endless long days and shorter...
View ArticleAustralia’s Bougainville challenge: aligning aid, trade & diplomacy
PETER JENNINGS & KARL CLAXTON | The Strategist A DECADE AFTER the successful peacekeeping mission, and a year and a half before the window opens for a referendum on Bougainville’s political status,...
View ArticleAustralia's visa bastardry. The unnecessary sadness of Mana Dau
KEITH JACKSON SOME TWO MONTHS AGO we noted in these columns that Mana Dau, mother in law of contributor Peter Kranz, was contemplating with great excitement her first trip to Australia, where she would...
View ArticlePNG condemned for standing down reporters critical of O’Neill
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS condemns the abusive measures taken against three respected journalists with the state-owned National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) because of news...
View ArticleAAP editor understands what Aussies want to know about PNG
KEITH JACKSON IT’S HEARTENING TO KNOW that the man who axed the AAP press agency in Papua New Guinea after 60 years fine service has such a firm grasp on what Australians are interested in when it...
View ArticleIt’s official – Australia a great tax haven for PNG’s illicit money
MIKE SECCOMBE | Global Mail AUSTRALIA IS CLEANING UP some of its own tax-avoiders, but for those with money to launder – especially from Papua New Guinea – it’s a nice place to wash up. The 2013 update...
View ArticleSilent suicide: Illegal gold miners risk lives in Bougainville
AXEL STURM | European Shareholders in Bougainville Copper THE ISLAND OF BOUGAINVILLE is rich in precious assets and gold especially is in the focus of indigenous people who want to earn money by small...
View ArticleGould’s birds of paradise still resplendent after all these years
JAMES COCKINGTON | Sydney Morning Herald THE REMARKABLE JOHN GOULD was a taxidermist by training (famous for having once preserved an entire giraffe) and an entrepreneur by nature. Proof is that his...
View ArticleNGOs mount legal challenge over Nautilus seabed mining
A COALITION OF CIVIL SOCIETY organisations is mounting a legal challenge to the world's first license to operate a deep sea mine in Papua New Guinea. The license was granted by the former Somare...
View ArticleEx PM speaks out: Mekere Morauta says ‘no one is safe in PNG’
MEKERE MORAUTA | The Masalai Blog NO ONE FEELS FREE. We live in fear, with our mouths shut. We see, but we don’t talk. Ministers are afraid to speak their minds, fearing they will lose their job....
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