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Here, I am reproducing an article that was published earlier this year.  What has happened since?  Does anyone know? Original by Susan Merrell and Chris Baria As this article goes to print [last May] there is a constitutional crisis being faced by Autonomous Bougainville Government after it has allegedly been entertaining a proposal from a small mining developer from Western Australia – ‘Caballus’. According to my information: Caballus, believed to be headed by Western Australian businessman, Jeffrey McGlinn, arrived in Buka with pre-written amendments to the Bougainville Mining Act that apparently will do away with landowners’ rights to their mineral Continue reading Bougainville and Belden Namah: Who profits from Panguna?→