Category Archives: Political Opinion

Weasel words from the Tin Man: The Prime Minister’s response to the torture of a 6yr old girl.

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The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Peter O’Neill, presides over a country where, according to Médecins Sans Frontières, the women are the most abused in the world outside of a conflict zone and where they “…endure some of the most extreme levels of violence in the world,” according to the Lowy Institute. (Reported in an article published in The National by journalist Grace Maribu.) Over this humanitarian crisis the Prime Minister expresses his “outrage” – but does little. When the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea finally came out with a press statement on the recent torture of a Continue reading Weasel words from the Tin Man: The Prime Minister’s response to the torture of a 6yr old girl.→

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The (not so) mysterious death of Rosalyn Albaniel Evara.

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By PNG Echo Postscript As an Australian tax-payer, I object to my hard-earned tax dollars going to a foreign government that tacitly condones the wholesale abuse of half of their population – and then does it with my money. It is time that international sanctions were applied to Papua New Guinea – time to hit them where it will hurt – in the money pocket.  The international community need to express their disgust at the ongoing human rights abuses in PNG – we (the international community) can stop this, even if they won’t. Let’s make this stop at Rosalyn Albaniel. Continue reading The (not so) mysterious death of Rosalyn Albaniel Evara.→

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