Gender-based violence: where are we going wrong? (Because we are)

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By PNG Echo I have been advocating in the space of gender-based violence now for a dozen (or more) years and can honestly say that I feel I’ve achieved a huge ‘zero.’  Many women have been at it for a lot longer than this, some are at the coal face and many of these women are tired, discouraged and burnt out. And it’s not only us older generation. In fact, I was forced to confront the question of where we are going wrong from a message that was sent to me by a young, esteemed colleague, herself an avid campaigner Continue reading Gender-based violence: where are we going wrong? (Because we are)→

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The Kramer Effect

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By PNG Echo The people of Papua New Guinea have always been Kramer’s pawns. He rode to power on the back of popular issues that he promised to solve, including the promise to bring powerful (and allegedly corrupt) people to justice, especially the then Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill who, at the time, was getting a lot of flak (and I do mean a lot) on the pages of the country’s social media over many of his more controversial decisions. Kramer took the temperature of the nation and gave them a placebo – for which he was almost deified, and he Continue reading The Kramer Effect→

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