Late last year, PNG Attitude asked readers to nominate the issues they’d raise if they had an opportunity to speak with Australia’s Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, Richard Marles.

Readers responded with gusto, posing critical questions related to development assistance; governance & corruption; education & training; and regional relationships, defence arrangements and China.

Now Mr Marles has responded to each issue and we’ll publish his (that is, the government's) views in a Key PNG Issues segment over the next four days.  We invite readers to air their own comments on what he says, and we'll get a conversation (maybe  a debate!) going.