A news report on EMTV further emphasises how PNGs current development model, based on large-scale mining and other resource explotation is failing to raise the living stanadrds of ordinary people.

While we don't agree with the reporters characterisation of PNG as a third-world nation and challenge Western perceptions of poverty based merely on disposable income, the video does make clear that a change od direction is needed. 

As ACT NOW! advocates, a focus on small and medium scale locally-owned industries, supporting the skills and talents of Papua New Guineans and argiculture extension services would much better serve the interests of the Nation.