Forget it. Sonja is a jealous woman.

Sonja Barry Ramoi, good to see you here among us lapuns!

Susan, I will have you know that KJ is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Queensland. This means he has adjuncted a lot here and there. More power to KJ!
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I have since been disjuncted, Peter, so now I do a lot of disjuncting hither and thither - KJ

Wrong question Sonja.

It should be: Why do all you lapuns in Australia care about Papua New Guinea?

The short answer might be because many of us devoted significant periods of our lives there.

'Also consider the difference between wisdom and knowledge. The wisest person isn't necessarily the cleverest, as my grandma used to say (and she'd never been to high school)'

Em trupela tok. I Can't agree more. I may be a living example myself. I think I am smart but I can lack wisdom sometimes.

Education and intelligence are not the same thing (and degrees measure neither).

Gardener’s theory of multiple intelligences state that there are eight different types of intelligences, which we all have and are present in differing amounts.

These intelligences include: visual, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalist.

So IQ tests based on Western-style questions of the logical/mathematical kind won't tell you who will survive the longest if dumped alone in the bush.

Also consider the difference between wisdom and knowledge. The wisest person isn't necessarily the cleverest, as my grandma used to say (and she'd never been to high school).

http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/difference-between-education-and-intelligence/

So it seems, where Sonya states: social media...incorrect information ... becoming more and more popular as time goes by.
Yet, do look: not all who read will adhere to the views they see.
Survey of the landscape is essential in finding best paths.
Problem for any species is hapless deference to poor leadership, path-ing, not parting.

Peter O'Neill has been on the NEC and held Ministerial portfolios since 2002 - that's 14 years in parliament and more than half that time with the longest ever government coalition with the National Alliance Party.

O'Neill was the Minister for Finance and Treasury in Somare's 2007 cabinet.

Somare had sacked Bart Philemon in 2006 from the portfolio after Philemon had challenged him for leadership of National Alliance.

Guess who took over the job, although it's conveniently mentioned on his webpage as 2010.

http://www.parliament.gov.pg/index.php/member-of-parliament/bio/view/ialibu-pangia-district

Marcus and Daniel. Don't forget the remarkable fate of Pope Formosus!

Probably around January 897, Pope Stephen (VI) VII ordered that the corpse of his predecessor Formosus be removed from its tomb and brought to the papal court for judgement. With the corpse propped up on a throne, a deacon was appointed to answer for the deceased pontiff.

Formosus' rotting corpse was accused of transmigrating sees in violation of canon law, of perjury, and of serving as a bishop while actually a layman. Eventually, the corpse was found guilty.

Stephen then cut off the three fingers of the right hand that it had used in life for blessings, next formally invalidating all of Formosus' acts and ordinations (including, ironically, his own ordination of Stephen [VI] VII as bishop of Anagni).

The body was finally interred in a graveyard for foreigners, only to be dug up once again, tied to weights, and cast into the Tiber River.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod

Degree or no degree, rich or powerful, when the masses are against you they are against you even after your death.

The last dictator in England, Oliver Cromwell, had his corpse dug up from Westminster Abbey, hung in chains and beheaded.

Cromwell had died of natural causes in 1658 but, when the Royalists returned to power in 1660, they hung his corpse and cut off his head to demonstrate the people’s anger for everything he had done wrong against the masses when he was in power.

Hi Gordon! As you know your lovely wife Lyn is Rose's aunty - both from Gembogl and both proud Simbus.

I've only got a couple of degrees Susan but I got mine back in the 1970s when they meant something. They were also hard work, especially when I was holding down a full time job and helping to raise a family.

I got mine from one of the sandstone universities. By the 1980s there was a proliferation of new universities (mostly upgraded TAFE colleges) and the value of a degree headed rapidly south.

UPNG once had a good reputation but now its degrees are not worth much. Divine Word is much better.

Nowadays you can get degrees in just about anything, basket weaving, nose-picking etc. etc.

I've slowly come to the realisation that a decent education doesn't just rely on formal education. It also involves years of experience. Some of the most impressive educated people I've met are illiterate.

I've come across heaps of dickheads in my life who think their qualifications somehow make them better and wiser people. When you take them to task they usually resort to the 'my degree is better than yours' argument.

I don't think you are doing yourself any favours by bragging about your PhD.

What I do like is your 'mission statement' (horrible phrase) on PNG Echo.

What happened to that great ideal?

Thank you Simbu! PNG is too big to fit into an individual's pocket.

Insinuations, allegations, suppositions and character assassination all based on jilted political views with the objective of twisting of reality.

When people discuss who they would like as their leaders that process is called democracy.

Welcome to New Melanesia - the door opens both ways.

Phil and Ed, I agree the article is biased because it was intended to be so.

Bryan's article was an extended riposte to Susan Merrell's attempts to discredit the excellent informative, in-depth and very much needed interpretations of current affairs in Papua New Guinea.

We know very well how easily many Pngains can be cowed by the 'wait-skin, na planti skul pepa b'long ol bikpela saveman'. That is exactly how Susan Merrell has been portraying herself - hence, Bryan's description is accurate.

Wanem, em bai kam raunraun long hia na opim maus b'long em olsem wanpela smatpela meri igat save abrusim b'long yumi.

No fucking way.

Treat us as equals of fuck off!

That's precisely the response she has received with desserts.

Unlike the majority of commentators on PNG Attitude this woman has no life investment in PNG - she has come to cash in off our people's sufferings.

No track record of real professional or personal achievements in PNG.

No track record of demonstrated concern for the society and economy of PNG.

No track record of contribution to really helping the forward progress PNG.

No track record of real time spent working, thinking or actively doing things related to or based in PNG.

No relationship with the grass roots crawling in the underbelly PNG.

No understanding of the complex societies and cultural identification of PNG.

No right to comment without consequence about PNG.

Susan - At this point in time you should be aware that the name of Peter O’Neill is already tarnished and tainted.

He no longer has the credibility to remain in the position of prime minister of this beautiful country of PNG. It is no longer an issue of whether he is guilty or not.

If you (or anyone who reads my post) are close enough, advise him that the only honourable thing left for him to do now is to just step down voluntarily.

The decision whether to crash or land is entirely up to him.

Well done Mathias and Francis. Thank you for taking the lead in taking this fight against evil to the next level.

What goes up must come down. No question this prime minister is going down. It’s up to him whether he lands or crashes. And don’t forget that all his puppet ministers must go down with him.

That is a biased and unfair article Peter.

Whatever her shortcomings or motives personal attack is not warranted. Rather, attack what she is saying.

That was very brave of the Simbus to speak out as they did. However, I do not think it wise for students to boycott classes for long periods. This will come back to bite the students of Simbu on their deno!

Gordon Shirley, former headteacher Gagl, Kewamugl and Wandi, married to a Goglme woman for 43 years

Peter O'Neill is playing hide and seek like when he was a child hiding only his face when the rest of his body was sticking out for everyone to see.

‪‎Unitech‬ students staged a peaceful and successful demonstration in Kundiawa, with endorsement of Hon Kerenga Kua.

The students have a mandate of 2,059 votes (of 3,000 students) in favour of a indefinite class boycott in a regular referendum.

Here are the facts. The national student movement for transparency and accountability has so far been endorsed by two former PMs (Sir Michael Somare, Sir Mekere Morauta), a former supreme court judge (Sir Arnold Ahmet), a former Attorney General (Hon Kerenga Kua) and a former Ombudsman (Ila Geno).

These highly respectable and accomplished PNGeans all believe the PM should allow himself to be interrogated and step aside to clear himself of any accusation.

So what can we call this movement? After two years of PMs delaying tactics through the courts, police and fraud squad appointments widely played out in the media, it truly stretches imagination to call this movement the actions of a minority of students led by their youthful emotions.