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PNG passes law to suspend judges

On 21 Mar, 2012 By Klaireh

Source: Australia Network News

15 Bridges, 3 Ships, a Politician and Polisyndrome

On 20 Mar, 2012 By Klaireh

Today is Tuesday the 20^th of March 2012, the current parliament is meant to be having its final session for the year 2012! Now how is that for excitement?! Usually the routine is that if you had an exciting weekend then the week should be relatively mediocre, alas it seems that this won’t be the case for us here in this wonderfully exciting country of ours.

PNG govt calls on judges to resign

On 20 Mar, 2012 By Klaireh

By: Eoin Blackwell, AAP

Papua New Guinea’s Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah has called on three judges, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, to resign.

In a full-page press statement in the Port Moresby-based The National newspaper, Mr Namah accuses Chief Justice Sir Salamo Injia and Justices Nicholas Kirriwom and George Manuhu of “judicial corruption”.

Mr Namah also calls for the resignation of the registrar of the Supreme and National courts.

Mudslinging, Playground Brawls and Verbal Diarrhea

On 05 Mar, 2012 By Klaireh

"Papua New Guinea has an abundance in natural resources, but poor governance and corruption have prevented this wealth from reaching ordinary citizens.”

Papua New Guinea's new media underground

On 01 Mar, 2012 By rait man

By Andrew Pascoe*

The cards seem firmly stacked against optimism on the streets of Papua New Guinea at the moment. It’s a bad sign in an election year, with little confidence evident that the outcome will correct our Pacific neighbour’s course from the particularly rocky path it’s taken in recent months.

But here — like elsewhere in the developing world where obscene power disparity is mobilising the masses — a wellspring of resistance is brewing.

PNG official says govt to monitor dissent

On 27 Feb, 2012 By rait man

AAP

The Papua New Guinea government has launched a crackdown on "subversive" activity on the internet.

It has begun monitoring the internet and is urging citizens to dob in anyone spreading "malicious and misleading" anti-state information online and via text messages.

Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, Ben Micah, announced the initiative in the Port Moresby-based The National Newspaper on Monday.

Kidu steps up as one women opposition

On 29 Jan, 2012 By rait man

By Jo Chandler

AS THE only female MP in Papua New Guinea's resolutely macho 109-member Parliament, Queensland-born Dame Carol Kidu is well accustomed to running a lonely race, reports The Age.

Now she's proposing to form a one-woman opposition and - in the absence of other contenders - be recognised by the Parliament as opposition leader.

The move was compelled by her distress over the political machinations behind the short-lived military mutiny on Thursday which aimed to restore Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare as prime minister.

Michael Somare admits responsibility for attempted military mutiny

On 28 Jan, 2012 By rait man

Ousted Papua New Guinea prime minister Sir Michael Somare has defended ordering a failed military mutiny, again insisting Friday he was the country’s legitimate leader, reports AFP.

Political tensions flared on Thursday when an ex-soldier loyal to Somare staged a dramatic grab to re-take power from current premier Peter O’Neill.

Former colonel Yaura Sasa led a pre-dawn mutiny, taking captive the head of the armed forces, Francis Agwi, and declaring himself the new military leader, reinforcing the country’s reputation as politically dysfunctional.

Papua New Guinea is a tinderbox

On 16 Dec, 2011 By rait man With 1 Comments

By Doug Hendrie

The violence in PNG this week is the eruption of long simmering tensions, says Martyn Namorong. Doug Hendrie talks to the fearless political blogger who sells betel nut by day and tackles the country's corrupt ruling classes by night.

Martyn Namorong is angry.

Blind faith in a failed political system

On 05 Dec, 2011 By rait man

For 36 years this political system has not solved your problems yet somehow the sheeple continue to have blind faith in a failed system. It’s produced the Bougainville crisis, the World’s third largest Environmental Disaster at Fly River, 5.2 million hectares of land stolen, human rights abuses and police brutality, massive theft of public monies, an education system that fails to produce nation builders, a health system that doesn’t work and etc...

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