Category Archives: Political Opinion

National Chauvinism: Lest we forget.

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National chauvinism is an aggressive patriotism that is often displayed when countries are at war.  Lately it is raising its ugly head – even in peace time. Writes PNG Echo Australia, yesterday, celebrated ANZAC Day and the battle on the peninsular of Gallipoli during the First World War where it is said Australia gained nationhood. It was celebrated royally all over the nation with large enthusiastic turnouts for dawn services and marches even though the surviving Diggers of the Gallipoli campaign have all since passed on. In contrast, by the late 1970s, when there were many surviving diggers of that Continue reading National Chauvinism: Lest we forget.→

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The Defense of Task Force Sweep (Who’s funding Koim?)

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By PNG Echo (Keep reading to the end where the document that answers the question is supplied.) It was the National Executive Council (NEC) that established Task Force Sweep and it was the NEC that terminated the agency. But Sam Koim couldn’t accept the inevitable. He was enjoying his elevated and internationally lauded position, notwithstanding his inexperienced and inept management of the agency that saw only half of his prosecutions make it through a committal hearing and of many of those that have, have been an unnecessary failure, according to a concerned legal expert. Koim recently stated of the decommissioning Continue reading The Defense of Task Force Sweep (Who’s funding Koim?)→

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