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Nature hates a vacuum: The potential demise of Peter O’Neill

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By PNG Echo Papua New Guinea has entered very dangerous political waters. The courts were aware of this when they cautioned restraint after the hearing to stay the arrest warrant of Peter O’Neill. – Yet both sides are going about, willy nilly, doing the very things that they were cautioned against and which may just land them with a contempt of court charge? The retired Police Commissioner, Sir Tom Kulunga, was recently convicted of contempt and received a sentence of seven months hard labour.   Not even this has deterred them. The Prime Minister’s actions are easily explainable – he’s Continue reading Nature hates a vacuum: The potential demise of Peter O’Neill→

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The machinations of power: The Prime Minister’s arrest warrant

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By PNG Echo The Papua New Guinea Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill’s case to stay an arrest warrant has been adjourned until 25th The adjournment was in response to the newly-appointed Police Commissioner Vaki informing the court that he consented to the stay and the seeking of consent orders to that effect. The judge was not convinced of the legality of the move and declined to sanction the consent orders which would also restrain police hierarchy from interfering with junior police investigation (pending the taxation audit) unless he was convinced (by the police lawyer Mawa) that he had the power to Continue reading The machinations of power: The Prime Minister’s arrest warrant→

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