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Let the courts decide (again)

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By PNG Echo The National Court’s decision (June 11) to stay the directive from the Ombudsman’s Commission (OC) forbidding the repayment of the UBS loan until the results of a Judicial Review is heard – is yet another instance of a country that is becoming unnecessarily litigious and overly reliant on the judicial system.  Excessive legalism One could be forgiven for thinking that a punitive ‘legalism’ is standing in the stead of sound judgement in PNG. So concerned are the populace with law enforcement that it serves as a smokescreen for other urgent and relevant questions that so often go Continue reading Let the courts decide (again)→

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Rhetoric over substance: O’Neill not always to blame

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“O’Neill-ocracy” screams this morning’s Post Courier (Thursday 5 June, 2014). What could possibly have foreshadowed such a politically unrestrained newspaper headline? Asks PNG Echo Proposed parliamentary reforms that, according to the Prime Minister, have been put forward by the Registrar of Political Parties (and not by himself or members of his party) are causing unnecessary chagrin, not least of all amongst members of the mainstream press who display a pitifully tenuous understanding that has produced a knee-jerk reaction. In particular, newspaper editor, Alexander Rheeney, led this morning’s Post Courier with the hysterical headline “O’Neill-ocracy”. Rheeney’s main concern is about the Continue reading Rhetoric over substance: O’Neill not always to blame→

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