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Manus Island Detention Centre – Who’s running PNG?

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By PNG Echo. Firstly, let me go on record as saying that I couldn’t be happier that the abomination that is the Manus Island Detention Centre will soon cease to exist. It has gone way beyond my ken to think that one government could conceive of such a place and another government go along with it and I said so, many years ago. But forgetting about the asylum seekers (which they did) this treaty allowed political jockeying to strip both governments of all vestiges of humanity, to put political self-interest before the rights of the most unfortunate men, women and Continue reading Manus Island Detention Centre – Who’s running PNG?→

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People in glass houses…: A timely reminder by Hon Mao Zeming

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By PNG Echo. The Hon. Mao Zeming, MP, the Deputy Leader of the People’s National Congress Party (PNC) and Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources, has questioned the motives of one of the Grand Chief, Sir Michael Somare’s, children – the former MP for Angoram and Minister for State Owned Enterprises under his father’s government, Arthur Somare.   While the cameras roll, said the Hon Zeming, commenting on Somare Junior’s reported intention to stand outside ASC in Australia, I wonder how eager he will be to discuss his own ministerial record and the charges that were leveled against him in Continue reading People in glass houses…: A timely reminder by Hon Mao Zeming→

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