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13 posts from October 2024

PNG ‘on brink of anarchy’: Law Society

HUBERT NAMANI
| President, PNG Law Society

Stop violence

PORT MORESBY - The escalating lawlessness and violence in Enga Province, as well as other hotspots across the country, has reached an unprecedented and dangerous level.

It is now critical that the government exercises its constitutional authority under Section 204 of the Constitution to issue a call-out of the PNG Defence Force in aid of the civil power.

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Booklet offers a glimpse into kiap life

PHILIP FITZPATRICK

Patrol Officer Bob Fayle and Algie Besasparis at Kokopo East New Britain Province 1957 (Bob Fayle)
Patrol Officers Bob Fayle and Algie Besasparis at Kokopo, East New Britain, 1957 (Bob Fayle)

TUMBY BAY - In 1970 the Department of the Administrator in Papua New Guinea published a booklet outlining its role and the role of its frontline field staff, widely known as kiaps.

While carrying out some research for a book recently, I dug out my battered copy of a booklet, titled Division of District Administration: Its role in the development of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

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Kaikai mahn: PNG’s predator attorneys

MICHAEL KABUNI
| Academia Nomad

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The kaikai mahn are integral to political corruption in PNG (Image by Transparency International)

PORT MORESBY – A while ago I asked followers of Academia Nomad on Facebook what they call ‘kaikai mahn’ in their language.

I received a long list of local names attributed to kaikai mahn. Just shows how popular the kaikai mahn community is.

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Breaking the silence of Gaza

JUDITH WHITE
| Culture Heist

Cactus

TWEED HEADS - Here is a new book that has to be one of the finest of the year. It takes us to the heart of Gaza and to incontestable truths about the suffering and resistance of the Palestinian people.

Cactus Pear for my Beloved (Penguin Australia) is by playwright and poet Samah Sabawi. It reads like a novel but is in fact the story of her family.

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Round world fliers’ epic flight nears PNG

ROB PARER

The aircraft lifts off from a small airfield near Omaha in the USA (Paul Hamer)
The Piper Comanche lifts off from a small airfield near Omaha in the USA (Paul Hamer)

 

BRISBANE – Pilot and aeronautical engineer Barry Payne, who had flown all types of aircraft including helicopters, and his wife Sandra came to Aitape in PNG’s West Sepik Province in the 1980s.

Barry took up his job as chief pilot for Franair, owned by the Catholic Diocese of Aitape which flew Cessna 206s.

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National museum is a national disgrace

KEITH JACKSON

1728613931296-bde1bfed-4ecd-484b-baa8-acae70bc56d9_1Front page Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, 26 September 2024

NOOSA – It’s one of those things I’ve come to expect as editor of PNG Attitude. A bit of the ‘does anyone know the whereabouts of good old so-and-so’ as a search for a pal missing since the 1960s is initiated.

A subsidiary category of Missing Persons are the two or three requests each year from readers who – during their time in Papua New Guinea – collected artefacts, paintings and other objects, including some of real value.

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Just how much should a hospital cost?

GOVERNOR ALLAN BIRD
| Academia Nomad

Boram Hospital
Boram General Hospital

WEWAK - First of all, let me acknowledge that the National Capital District, Gulf and Central Provinces need level 5 hospitals and they should get them.

This will take pressure off Port Moresby General, which is full of patients mostly from Central and Gulf provinces.

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Cruel detention of refugees in PNG

KEVIN SWEENEY
| Refugees Off PNG Working Group

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FOOTSCRAY, VIC - The Australian Government needs to immediately reinstate basic support for refugees and asylum seekers that it sent to Papua New Guinea.

If it is not able to do this, it should bring them to Australia as a matter of urgency so they receive basic support and adequate medical care while awaiting resettlement.

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Marape must stop illegal logging

EDDIE TANAGO
| Act Now!

PORT MORESBY - Prime Minister James Marape spoke of the importance of preserving Papua New Guinea’s tropical rainforest in his address to the United Nations General Assembly last Friday

Yet  his government is doing nothing to stop widespread illegal logging, in particular the abuse of agricultural clearing licences.

Marape has described PNG’s rainforests as vital to PNG and to the global community.

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