Tag Archives: Namah Belden (Vanimo-Green River) Opposition Leader. Shadow Minister for Defence, Internal Security and Correctional Services

Namah defeated

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By PNG Echo Belden Namah, leader of the Parliamentary Opposition in Papua New Guinea has conceded defeat. Politically, the Opposition is a spent force as Namah admits: Your Parliamentary Opposition has done all it can within its means… Our numbers cannot make any difference on the Floor of Parliament…There is nothing further the Opposition can do… But that’s not right. There is one significant thing, in fact, that the opposition can still do – sack the leader and replace him with a more attractive alternative. In any other political context this ineffectual leader would have been replaced a long time Continue reading Namah defeated→

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Manus Island: What did they expect?

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Much has been written on the plight of the asylum seekers on Manus Island but as dire as their plight is, there are other casualties of Australia’s callous politically motivated policy: the people of Manus Island. By PNG Echo To establish an Asylum Seeker Detention Centre with less than humane conditions on an island in a country with such profound problems that media commentators have referred to it, variably, as a ‘hell hole’ or a ‘failed state’…well, what was the Australian government thinking?  (Oh yes, the polls.)

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