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Would you please add me to your list for PNG Attitude. I really enjoy the very direct and to the point information. Truly a good read.

A lot of good articles came out of the recent March PNG Attitude – in fact, lots of attitude and no grunt. No one’s got the balls to come forward from the so-called elite in PNG.

It seems the silent majority agrees with what is happening to PNG, but no one can mobilise People Power, like the Egyptians have done to oust their president and government.

PNGeans cannot see their way clear to give the majority of people living in rural areas any hope of participating in the wealth of the minerals boom let alone tourism, forestry and marine resources.

It means one thing, that most people in government and public service are corrupt - caught up in the 10% system in Vulupindi Haus.

It’s a pity PNG cannot unite to showcase to the world its beautiful traditions, cultures and heritage and market tourism as its nambawan export.

This will give all tribes and provinces an honest income, and a fruitful quality of life. We must educate our youth to participate in meaningful dialogue with the aim of giving them hope to see a better PNG.

Given PNG’s wealth, Australian aid should not be consumed in the PNG budget: it should target rural projects like cottage industries, rural electrification, rural hydro power schemes, tourism, the quality of teachers, health and infrastructure.

This will help slow down urban drift and avoid squatter settlements, particularly in Lae and Port Moresby where there is inadequate industry to sustain the population growth and engage the unemployed youth of the nation.

I would like to see the Police Citizen Youth Club concept established throughout the provinces, giving youth, leadership training, discipline and self respect. This would strike at the core of law and order problems and engage youths at all levels of society.

All firearms should be confiscated and no firearm licences should be issued. The people are not mature enough to own such weapons.

Reporters are not writing about the problems the people face in their daily living.

There’s too much lip service paid to the mining conglomerates and nothing about poverty and malnutrition.

People who call PNG home, can you see any light at the end of the tunnel. Opim maus nau na tok save. Yumi mas bung wantaim na stretim olgeta dispela hevi long kantri bilong yumi tu. Noken pasim maus na lusim tingktingk long taim bipo yu liklik mangi na liklik meri long Papua na New Guinea.

Let us speak with one voice. Please raise your concerns through PNG Attitude so that we may, as expatriates living overseas, make it known that our remittance to our families back home does help to contribute in a small way toward the PNG economy.

We have to address the corruption, law & order, education, health, housing, infrastructure and youth development issues if we are to see the country move forward and not reach a stalemate.

We must educate the population through massive awareness via advertising, radio and television with slogans resonate to votim gutpela man o meri long 2012 eleksin.

Stap isi olgeta wantok.

I have just been talking to an old friend, David Stephen who wrote a book on the history of political parties in Papua New Guinea in the 1970s, and mentioned I had just received and read quickly through the latest edition of ‘PNG Attitude’.

He wondered if you might be kind enough to add him to your distribution list.

I shall be grateful if you can please send him your most interesting magazine as it comes out.