A development perspective for Christmas 2013
JOHN K KAMASUA “Poverty is man-made and can be reversed by the actions of human beings” - Nelson Mandela THE EARLY PROMISE OF DEVELOPMENT has eluded many Papua New Guineans. There is a need to reverse...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea? Sorry, I’m over it now
PHIL FITZPATRICK DAVID WALL HAS RECENTLY graced these pages with a couple of reflective articles to do with growing old, both of which I have found most interesting. Reflection and re-evaluation of...
View ArticleChristmas gift: 50 more Aussie police officers now in PNG
AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE THE SECOND AND FINAL CONTINGENT of Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers arrived in Papua New Guinea on Saturday to work alongside their counterparts in community policing...
View ArticlePNG Speaker removes non-Christian Artwork— with a chainsaw
TERRY FIRMA | Patheos (US) IF THEO ZURENUOC GETS HIS WAY, the PNG government will soon install ‘a National Unity Pole, which will contain a Bible, a copy of the Constitution and an everlasting flame to...
View ArticleSpeaker's wilful destruction has damaged PNG's reputation
PHIL FITZPATRICK I STRONGLY SUSPECT that this business of destroying ancestral heirlooms housed in the National Parliament has irreparably damaged Papua New Guinea's international reputation. It has...
View ArticleAustralian government is set to rein in costs of foreign aid
LISA CORNISH | News Limited AUSTRALIA’S COALITION GOVERNMENT will crack down on the spiralling administrative costs of foreign aid after it was revealed spending almost quadrupled since 2007. Between...
View ArticleHow the works of our ancestors rose to the challenge
TREVOR FREESTONE ALL PAPUAN NEW GUINEANS should remember the dreams of their ancestors. This is a tribute to Wenamba and Bimai, two great leaders of the Eastern Highlands in the 1950s, as told to me by...
View ArticleThink those carvings are trivial? Could you be the problem?
KEITH JACKSON I DON’T KNOW IF YOU’RE AWARE of the term “false dichotomy” - the logical fallacy where proponents claim the idea they favour is so important that any other possibilities are trivial or...
View ArticleA Christmas recollection about the best choir in history
PETER KRANZ MY DAD WAS A MUSICIAN. More specifically he was a choirmaster. We had an old Ferrograph tape recorder and he had some precious recordings that he held in high regard, including the Vienna...
View ArticleThe Grand Anti-Beelzebub of Papua New Guinea
PHIL FITZPATRICK THE GRAND ANTI-BEELZEBUB of Papua New Guinea, his right royal Zilliness, the most reverend Theo Zurenuoc was annoyed. He had just enjoyed a hearty breakfast with the new Prime Minister...
View ArticlePNG consolidates as global player but still a paradise in waiting
FR GIORGIO LICINI | Catholic Reporter WASN’T THE YEAR 2013 A TURNING POINT for Papua New Guinea? Not only a new generation of political leaders in their forties consolidated power, but the country has...
View ArticleSir Julius accuses Newcrest Mining of deceit & arrogance
ROWAN CALLICK | The Australian NEWCREST MINING IS FACING FLAK not only from its shareholders and from the price of gold slumping to a three-year low, but from political royalty in its main field of...
View ArticleEasy pickings: PNG is a victim of ‘finance scheme terrorists’
THE OFFICE OF PRIME MINISTER Peter O’Neill has alleged that Papua New Guinea is a victim of ‘financial scheme terrorists’. The PM’s Office says it has been made aware of the presence of fraudulent...
View ArticleAustralia withdraws funding over corruption & fake drug fears
LIAM COCHRANE | ABC AUSTRALIA HAS WITHDRAWN FUNDING for a $38 million program that supplies medicine to Papua New Guinean health centres, due to concerns about the way PNG has awarded contracts....
View ArticleThe bug in the sauce bottle: doing business in PNG
PHIL FITZPATRICK PAPUA NEW GUINEA has got the unfortunate knack of making even the simplest thing difficult. A lot of it has got to do with disorganisation and inefficiency. An equal measure can be...
View ArticleJulie Bishop defends decision to withdraw drugs funding
AUSTRALIA NETWORK NEWS AUSTRALIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER JULIE BISHOP has strongly defended her government's decision to withdraw money for a medical supply program in Papua New Guinea. The Papua New Guinea...
View ArticleBubu power, love, faith & a miracle of Christmas
PETER KRANZ LIKE PHIL FITZPATRICK, I reckon that many of us have had a gutful in 2013 of the stories of atrocities, witch killings, brutality against women and children, rampant corruption and greed...
View ArticleWe lose David Wall – man of letters, ideas & PNG Attitude luminary
KEITH JACKSON DAVID (DAVE) WALL, A MAN WHO Phil Fitzpatrick recently referred to as “gracing these pages”, died on Boxing Day - leaving his wife Deborah, his other loved ones and the friends he never...
View ArticleThe true significance of the destroyed carvings of Parliament House
SAMSON MAIM & KENNETH BRUNO THE 19 CARVED HEADS IN THE LINTEL above the entrance to Parliament House (and which have since been destroyed) came from Maprik, Wosera (Abelam people) and West Yangoru...
View ArticleO’Neill seeks debate on parliamentary artefacts destruction
EMTV PRIME MINISTER PETER O’NEILL has called for proper debate before cultural relics are removed from Papua New Guinea’s parliament house. In an interview with television station EMTV he said he had...
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