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Spotlight on Bougainville

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We at PNG Echo have a soft spot for Bougainville and with the issuing of writs for the upcoming election being scheduled for 27 September and with voting to commence on 23 November, we intend to produce a series of articles and commentary on Bougainville – we hope they will prove informative and helpful. For myself, having an abiding interest in political nationalism and having studied it extensively, especially in my country of birth, Wales – well, it only stands to reason that Bougainville is close to my heart. As such, I intend to produce a comparison of Bougainville’s march Continue reading Spotlight on Bougainville→

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Bougainville: an opinion extracted from a feature in ‘Plus’ magazine.

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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.→

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