Look who’s talking – Foreign media.

By PNG Echo. The failed state of PNG proclaimed the headline of Australian ’boutique’ publication The Saturday Paper, (its author, Mike Seccombe) This is opinion and, in my opinion, it is tainted opinion. It’s a melange of the same old sources, saying the same old thing, displaying a nostalgic longing for a time passed when Papua New Guinea was ‘get rich and get out’ country unimpeded by governments who were far more malleable than this one. Take the headline – incorrect:  the very first indication of a failed state is when the government loses control of its disciplinary forces. That hasn’t Continue reading Look who’s talking – Foreign media.

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Manus Island Detention Centre – Who’s running PNG?

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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