Meg Taylor should be appointed our next GG
08 December 2022
MARTIN AWAYANG NAMORONG
PORT MORESBY - The Hela were some of the last people in Papua New Guinea to have contact with Europeans.
And one of the first outsiders to have contact with them was Jim Taylor during his 1937 patrol.
His daughter, Dame Meg Taylor, would retrace his journey decades later in her documentary ‘In My Father's Footsteps’.
In the film, she described how the Hela were thrust into the 20th century with the speed of a bullet.
Today a son of Hela leads the nation that Jim Taylor helped build and unite, and Taylor’s daughter, Dame Meg, helped lead Papua New Guinea towards independence.
But whereas her father led the Hela into a colonial administration, she was involved in separating the tribes from the coloniser.
And whereas her father may have thrust the Hela into the 20th century, a son of Hela could now thrust PNG into the 21st century by appointing Dame Meg Taylor as PNG’s next Governor-General.
I first met and befriended Meg in 1976
I lived in PNG from 1976 -1979 when I served as the Foundation Director of the Office of Environment and Conservation where I wrote the First environmental laws of the country that passed through the PNG parliament in 1978 . I also worked with Maurice Strong to establish the South Pacific Regional Environmental Program that Michael Somare used to empower the newly established South Pacific Forum, now the Pacific Islands Forum, where Meg later worked . Later on as a futurist I worked with Misty Baloiloi on KUMUL 2020
Meg is one of the most intelligent, caring, sensitive, and purposeful people I have ever known
I agree that. Meg would be a perfect Governor General
I send my personal greetings to her now !
Peter Ellyard [email protected]
Posted by: Peter Ellyard | 08 July 2024 at 10:19 AM
Full support.
Posted by: Michael Dom | 13 December 2022 at 11:15 PM
I agree, Martyn. She is the famous daughter of a famous kiap as well as being an academic, athlete, lawyer and executive extraordinaire - LL.B. (Melbourne), LL.M. (Harvard) and Dame of the British Empire - a perfect match for GG of PNG.
Posted by: Chips Mackellar | 09 December 2022 at 04:49 PM