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By Chris Baria (Read the extract below or read the whole feature here: https://issuu.com/home/published/plus_may19_issuu ) The Autonomous Region of Bougainville with its own government was an interim agreed measure to come out of the Bougainville Peace Agreement. The Autonomous Bougainville Government is a government without economy that has failed to build a short-term income base from what is already available such as alluvial gold, cash crops and fisheries levy. I believe, this is because too much money and time has been wasted, including money from the national government, on trying to reopen the mine at Panguna. In my opinion, Australian Continue reading Bougainville: an opinion extracted from a feature in ‘Plus’ magazine.→