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PNG sisterhood – wherefore art thou?

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By PNG Echo. On International Women’s Day yesterday the media were invited to a business women’s breakfast at the Gateway Hotel, Port Moresby. Their purpose was to promote publicly the achievements of these women. Do a little bragging on their behalf, if you like. Under the circumstances, you’d expect that they’d be welcomed and treated with the respect they deserve, wouldn’t you? But no, with breathtaking disdain there was absolutely nothing there to accommodate media (most of whom were female) and a request by one journalist for a glass of water was refused as the waitpeople fell over the reporters Continue reading PNG sisterhood – wherefore art thou?→

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The journalist, the Human Rights’ Commissioner, the Prime Minister and the abuses.

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By PNG Echo It is, by now, well known that, last weekend, this journalist was refused entry into Papua New Guinea (PNG) by order of the Prime Minister. It was heavy handed, provocative and ultimately an exercise in futility. May I remind the Prime Minister that there have been very successful revolutions enacted remotely – the Ayotollah Khomeini effected the Iranian revolution from enforced exile in Paris, for instance.   In PNG, political revolution is not called for – the government was democratically elected and ought to be free to do its job. It’s the fact that this government is Continue reading The journalist, the Human Rights’ Commissioner, the Prime Minister and the abuses.→

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