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Student protests: the missing Ingredients

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By PNG Echo. They say that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Here are a few historical lessons I’ve dug up for the protesting students of PNG to keep in mind. What’s the issue? On initial reflection, it seemed to me that the difference between the protests of the PNG students and other past student protests elsewhere in the world is that the PNG protests have been partisan and blatantly political, right from the word go – targeting one man, not even a government or a party and that’s not usual. For even though the Continue reading Student protests: the missing Ingredients→

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The writing on the wall: The by-election has spoken.

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By PNG Echo. There are many who gratuitously and arrogantly claim to speak for the silent majority in PNG. It’s an easy claim to make because this majority, by definition, does not usually indicate their preferences. Well… not usually, but sometimes they do, and when they do they speak clearly, unambiguously and unequivocally – and that’s exactly what they’ve done and it is contrary to what the noisy minority would have you believe. The Protests and protestors In Papua New Guinea, at present, students are being whipped into mass hysteria by opponents of the government – and it’s a big Continue reading The writing on the wall: The by-election has spoken.→

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