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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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Vote of no confidence – a vain hope

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By PNG Echo. In the lead up to this particular session of parliament, anti-government forces have been in overdrive trying to convince the public that a vote of no confidence is eminently reasonable. All this in spite of the bleeding obvious – no likelihood of success. Land of the unexpected, they said, winking knowingly. Are they living in some imaginary world where advertising slogans have some magical power?   …it’s a numbers game The Peoples National Congress (PNC) of which the Prime Minister is the head has 61 MPs – enough to govern in its own right, but, with the Continue reading Vote of no confidence – a vain hope→

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