The Mark Davis story – after 40 years, the bum’s rush
KEITH JACKSON TODAY JULIE BISHOP did something unusual for an Australian foreign minister – she personally intervened in the saga of journalist Mark Davis by registering concern with the Papua New...
View ArticlePanAust to acquire 80% of the Frieda River copper project
REUTERS & SOURCES AUSTRALIAN MINING COMPANY PanAust Ltd says its acquisition of an exploration project in Papua New Guinea from Glencore Xstrata could transform it into one of the world’s top...
View ArticlePNG: Looking like a textbook case of how to ruin an economy
MARTYN NAMORONG | The Namorong Report IN THIS PERIOD leading to the 2014 budget, the Papua New Guinea government’s spin has gone into overdrive about deficit spending being required to stimulate...
View ArticleDame Carol on mining: let's learn from our past mistakes
BEN JACKSON | Bougainville 24 THE ELECTION OF DAME CAROL KIDU to the Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) board in April 2013 was a clear indication of the company’s intent to learn from its past mistakes...
View ArticleSocial media outcry goes nowhere: Corruption protest fizzles
KEITH JACKSON THE PNG ANTI-CORRUPTION Movement for Change will have to toughen up if it’s going to make a difference. A peaceful civil protest planned for today turned out to be a damp squib when...
View ArticleThe Bougainville challenge: partnering for peace & prosperity
The editor of Bougainville Copper Limited’s blog, Bougainville 24, BEN JACKSON, spoke to DAME CAROL KIDU about her appointment earlier this year to the BCL Board. Here’s the transcript…. B24: Are there...
View ArticleKukukuku - Reminiscences of the cassowary bone people
CHIPS MACKELLAR JK MCCARTHY IN HIS PATROL INTO YESTERDAY stated that “the Kukukuku tribes had a deserved reputation as the most bloodthirsty and vicious in New Guinea.” And this description of them was...
View ArticleWill PNG’s ICAC become truly an independent body?
FRANCIS S NII THE LONG AWAITED CANON for fighting corruption in Papua New Guinea, the Independent Commission Against Corruption Bill, is expected to be passed in this month’s session of Parliament...
View ArticleBasil says budget delay is attempt to cover up economic problems
KEITH JACKSON PAPUA NEW GUINEA’s deputy opposition leader Sam Basil launched a searing indictment of the competency of the O’Neill government in a statement released late today. Claiming that the 2014...
View ArticleChinese aid to Pacific causes some concern to traditional donors
PACIFIC BEAT | Australia Network News CHINA'S ONE BILLION DOLLAR AID package to the Pacific has been described as "fairly significant" but analysts say it remains to be seen how the money will be...
View ArticleMood strengthens against Asian business proliferation in Bougainville
DAVID LORNIE | Bougainville Bureau Chief | PNG Post-Courier THE LOOTING OF AN ASIAN-OWNED warehouse in Arawa recently sent a strong message that Bougainvilleans are still willing to take action to...
View ArticleAnti-corruption activists call for national stopwork on Monday
KEITH JACKSON ATTITUDE UPDATE: Port Moresby Police commander Andy Bawa said this afternoon that, "in the interests of public safety, peace and good order", protest marches and strikes will not be...
View ArticleO’Neill threatens to scrap visa on arrival rights for Australians
RADIO AUSTRALIA PNG PRIME MINISTER Peter O'Neill has threatened to withdraw the visa on arrival arrangements it has with Australia unless visa rights are reciprocated. Speaking in parliament, Mr...
View ArticleYou’re being conned: Why the Pacific should say no to refugees
MARILYN SHEPHERD | Islands Business | Extracts PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND NAURU are being bullied to assist Australia to traffic humans by force out of Australia on the pretext of stopping people smuggling—a...
View ArticleConsultation funds hijacked as Meekamui leader turns reckless
LEONARD FONG ROKA PEOPLE IN THE PANGUNA and Upper-Tailings special mining leases of Bougainville have demanded that Meekamui gang leader Moses Pipiro apologise and explain why he and his followers...
View ArticleAs O'Neill cracks down, ill-planned corruption protest crumbles
KEITH JACKSON OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS prime minister Peter O’Neill, one of the most acute political thinkers Papua New Guinea has seen, has issued a number of challenges to his carping critics. Some of...
View ArticleCricket: Papua New Guinea records famous win over Kenya
ANDREW NIXON | Cricket Europe THE LAST TIME Papua New Guinea played Kenya was the 1990 ICC Trophy in the Netherlands. Papua New Guinea were winners that day, but since then Kenya had gone on to much...
View ArticleSolar adventures as a new power source comes to Simbu
ALEX CHONG | Energy Matters IN SEPTEMBER I TRAVELLED to Papua New Guinea with Wayne Merry from Hope Worldwide to install small solar panel systems on the rooftop of a rural clinic in the Simbu province...
View ArticleHere now
WAWAF LABUAN For every happy time that's here There's a field of fire to shear For every breath of air that's pure There's a tiny bit impure There now my son Take my hand and walk Give me peace in...
View ArticleBougainville: Politics & power struggles hold back normalisation
LEONARD FONG ROKA THE PEAK BODY OF LANDOWNERS around Bougainville’s Panguna copper mine, the Panguna Mine Affected Landowners Association (PMALA), is riven by internal politics and power struggles....
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