Association secretary Dr Sam Yockopua said all three must be achieved by Thursday 4 August or it will be down scalpels and swabs and doctors will walk off their posts.

Yockopua added that NDA is supported by other medicos including the Nurses Association, Community Health Workers Union, Allied Health Workers Association, Health Support Workers Association, Health Extension Officers Association, Medical Laboratory Technicians Association and Health Inspectors Association.

Not wanting to let the prime minister down gently, Dr Yockopua described him in clinical terms as a "mad drunk driving the bus at 200kph".

Meanwhile, political commentator Deni ToKunai (@Tavurvur), tired of airline executives constantly saying all their birds were in the air, tweeted that people “shouldn’t believe Air Niugini's PR spin re services returning to normal and passengers being a priority.”

Services were far from back to normal and passengers were abandoned without assistance all over the country – including mothers who had been at a conference and their young kids.

And New Zealand journalist Johnny Blades quoted minister Justin Tkatchenko saying that, under O’Neill, MPs had been “doing unbelievable things with district funds." Which was sufficiently ambiguous for Oro Governor Garry Juffa to respond that the government claimed to be investing in all districts but “really the funds are campaign funds for their members, never monitored and grossly mismanaged.”

What is unbelievable to Tkatchenko is slush for the rest of us.

Meanwhile the government MPs in Alotau (where the 81 may have shrunk further by now, perhaps to 71) were in ‘camp’ at what one of our readers named as a luxury hotel where doing it tough means having to use your own toothpick.

Back in Port Moresby, the opposition spent a quietish day counting the 16 members the Post-Courier said they had but constantly coming up with 30 until, in the afternoon, morale and numbers were boosted as Sir Michael Somare formally joined the group (left).

Has the 80 year old still got the pulling power to get some of those younger MPs taking a chance on his judgement about who deserves to be in charge?

Earlier in the day, before The Chief had landed, People’s Progress Party Leader and Kavieng MP, Ben Micah, who had defected to the opposition on Friday and split his party in doing so, fired an idle volley at prime minister O’Neill, telling him to “stop the arrogant game and step down”.

He then thoroughly confused radio listeners and me by saying, “I’d rather prepare to be on the side of right but the cry of the eight million people of this country is what I prefer to listen to rather than fooling myself to be with a government that is not putting the people first.”

He added that the Opposition “can be powerful in the last minute because anything can happen.” I think that meant he wasn’t entirely giving the game away. Then The Chief turned up.

Let me now introduce Bire Kimisopa MP, his confidence at joining the opposition boosted by being called “prominent” by a journalist.

Kimisope said he and his three New Generation Party MPs were peeved with the state of the economy, peeved by nationwide protests and peeved by the prime minister's evasion of a corruption investigation.

"It's a culmination of a number of things,” he said of his group’s defection. “Political, social and just the complete disrespect for the rule of law and also, I think, a move by our citizens right across the country demanding that there is a change of political direction."

"So our party has decided that it needs to heed the call from our people and make that move appropriately," he explained.

That was good stuff. But no account of yesterday’s events would be complete without revisiting the scene of chief secretary Isaac Lupari’s National Security Joint Task Force, or NaStI. That's Isaac speaking at right.

Postings on social and mainstream media will be monitored, he said. So, welcome to Attitude, Isaac. Enjoy.

He also said threats on Facebook and blog sites were becoming “prevalent”. “Without checking the facts and your report is a threat,” he said. (I hope I got that right.)

“Any politician who issue threats through press conferences, petitions by landowners – those are potential threats to national security - and they will come under the scrutiny of the task force now established.

“You can’t take the law into your own hands because the Constitution provides you that liberty.

“You have to respect, and if you don’t respect those liberties, then you are abusing and have gone beyond the boundaries of those laws. That then becomes unlawful.

“There are those citizens who attack me, destroy public property, just because of this notion that the Constitution gives them the right to do this. This is absolutely wrong.

“The law gives you the right, but the right is a qualified right. You must operate within the laws of this country. You have to respect the liberties and rights of every citizen of this country.”

Phew, I’m glad the chief secretary cleared that up before I got to the end of this piece.

Meanwhile, the National Security Advisory Council (NACd not NaStI), has, according to foreign affairs secretary William Dihm (left), received threats to people, leaders and public assets.

So Dihm has made it his job to “find out whether there are external linkages working in collaboration with people making the kinds of threats against the state of PNG.

"We have stepped up work early this week and discussion has taken place."

So it’s all happening on the security front in PNG. It must be nice to live in a country where so many people are looking out for you amongst all those threats.

And looking after themselves, too, of course.