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No debate, early adjournment: It’s cause and effect.

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By PNG Echo. This week, the Government of PNG rushed through legislation, including the budget with little or no debate. Afterwards, parliament was adjourned early and will not reconvene until the end of March 2016 – which could put them in breach of the rules regarding sitting days.  It will also put them outside the window of opportunity where a vote of no confidence is possible. With the superior numbers in the government ranks they can do that. It’s not an ideal situation but the voting behaviour indicates that there is significant confidence in this government, which was also shown Continue reading No debate, early adjournment: It’s cause and effect.→

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SDP is not Mekere Morauta’s retirement fund, nor the SOEs the Somare’s honey pot

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By PNG Echo. Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill has hit back at the continued and sustained attack on the government by former Prime Minister Mekere Morauta, saying his… …ongoing stream of hate and malice  is all about the former Prime Minister trying to undermine the Government to keep control of the Sustainable Development Program (SDP) money… He went on to say: [Morauta] thinks that if there is a change of Government he might get to stay on and keep spending the money belonging to SDP [Sustained Development Program associated with compensation for the OkTedi mining environmental damage]. The Prime Minister, admonished the former Prime Continue reading SDP is not Mekere Morauta’s retirement fund, nor the SOEs the Somare’s honey pot→

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