BY KEITH JACKSON

SELF-PROCLAIMED HIV/AIDS guru, email spammer, reputation trasher and PNG visa overstayer Bruce Copeland is up to his old tricks.

You’d think a person in his precarious position would be pulling his head in instead of lashing out with defamatory abuse at people who are working hard for PNG and ought to be treated with some respect.

But Copeland is nothing if not reckless, so, while PNG authorities contemplate taking action against him and legal proceedings for defamation against him personally are looming in Australia, he continues to harangue an unwilling collection of people with obnoxious emails they don’t want and don’t deserve to get.

He also continues to promulgate arrant nonsense containing his own loopy and potentially harmful ‘remedies’ for fighting AIDS – forcing a strong  jet of water into the vagina being one of them.

Having trashed his way through the scientists and doctors of Melbourne’s prestigious Burnet Institute (Australia's largest virology and communicable disease research organisation), Copeland has now turned his unwanted attention to PNG’s Secretary for Health, Clement Malau.

Dr Malau had the audacity to tell Copeland, who has no medical training: “Please take me off this email list. I have so much to do in the health sector and cannot possibly read the MAD and ABSURD statements…”

So what does the Secretary for Health get from Copeland after this plaintive plea to be left alone – yes, the usual tirade of abuse.

“Are you on the side of the AusAID gays and lesbians?” rants Copeland. “You worked for Burnet in Melbourne. Do you still have any pecuniary involvement with them? Did you know that the Australians would have terminated/not renewed your contract if you had gone against the gay-lesbian-paedophile agenda?

“You would have never been employed in Melbourne. Nor ever be employed again after your contract as Secretary finishes. Any superannuation payments would have ceased," he typically fantasises.

“Again the Australians would never employ you again. As an old man, you will not ever go back to medical practice. You have confused the PNG medical world with your acceptance of the gay/lesbian/paedophile agenda.”

The sooner the PNG government turfs out this man, so he can face the music in Australia, the better.

PNG Attitude only hopes the ‘disciples’ that Copeland claims to have in PNG are, like much else in his world, total figments of his imagination.

Otherwise some innocent people are being subjected to a stream of absolute garbage about how to deal with HIV/AIDS which, if they give it credence, is likely to cause them harm.

It's also about time Copeland's Port Moresby-based internet service provider shut him out. That would be a responsible thing to do.