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Preparing for War... A CALL TO ARMS

On 28 Dec, 2015 By ACTNOW

Gary Juffa

Today we are besieged. The so called elites in power who do the bidding of the pirates that control our resources are fast selling PNG off, neither protecting nor promoting PNG interests.

Just walk into any business and ask yourself how is PNG protected here? A few genuine businesses and investors struggle while a many are merely here as vultures to take what they can while they can.

West Sepik against SABLs

On 03 Dec, 2015 By ACTNOW

West Sepik youths holding playcards in demonstration against SABL. Picture courtesy: Gregory Suguman

Source: Gregory Suguman

Youths use Sports to share message: Stop the land grab

On 03 Dec, 2015 By ACTNOW

Wagsford Youths Soccer team

A local town soccer team in Madang, has a message to share at the Madang town soccer competition. The message on their jerseys reads 'Stop the Land Grab'.

We Took Part In An Australian Aid Program. It Was More About Helping Your Country Than Ours

On 06 Nov, 2015 By ACTNOW

By Aminio David and Anita Tenkon, published in New Matilda

Advocates for traditional landowners in Vanuatu, Aminio David and Anita Tenkon were left disillusioned by an Australian aid program. Here, they explain why.

The Sustainable Development Goals: A Siren and Lullaby for our Times

On 19 Oct, 2015 By ACTNOW

Thomas Pogge and Alnoor Ladha | OCCUPY.com

United Nations new Sustainable Development Goals do not represent our best interests

On 09 Oct, 2015 By ACTNOW

Alnoor Ladha | The Rules via Huffington Post

On 25th September world leaders signed the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They told the world that we’re on track to ending global poverty by 2030, and that we can do it by prioritising economic growth at all costs.

Australian aid in PNG seen as enabling core problems

On 25 Sep, 2015 By ACTNOW

Photo: Port Moresby CBD. RNZI / Koro Vaka'uta

Source: Radio New Zealand

Australia's aid programme in Papua New Guinea has been described as having enabled rather than remedied state fraud and market distortions in PNG

The damning indictment came in a submission by the International State Crime Initiative at an Australian senate inquiry into the aid programme in PNG.

Come celebrate 40years at the Goroka Show, EHP

On 10 Sep, 2015 By ACTNOW

The Goroka Show is on again this weekend, 11th to 13th September 2015, at the National Sports Institute (NSI), and this year celebrating 40years of Papua New Guinea Independence.

ACTNOW! will be putting up a stall giving away show bags, information on the Special Agricultural Business Leases (SABL), Experimental Seabed Mining, the Model of Development and more.

Preserving Traditional Cultural Systems in PNG

On 10 Jul, 2015 By ACTNOW

Community, Relationships and Exchange are the three most significant values in a cuturally diverse country such as Papua New Guinea. We keep them dear to our hearts after land and life. Our system is a tradition that lives off extended relationships that survive on exchange within community for our social, economic and spiritual wellbeing. We are a spiders web conjoined by PNG culture for a 'Gutpela Sindaun' for everyone.

National Census Report 2011

On 23 Jun, 2015 By ACTNOW

For those of you who have'nt got a copy of the Ntional Census Report 2011, click on the document below to have a read.

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