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The incredible rise and fall of Sam Koim

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By PNG Echo Then… Sam Koim started his legal career, at the end of 2008, as an employed lawyer at the Office of the Solicitor General. He rose quickly (within three years) to national – even international – prominence. Koim owes his meteoric rise, at least the start of it, to his friendship with Sam Basil. Indeed it was Basil, then Minister for National Planning in the O’Neill/Namah government, who, in 2011, put in a submission to the NEC for the establishment of Task Force Sweep (TFS) with Koim at the helm. At the time, Koim had only two years Continue reading The incredible rise and fall of Sam Koim→

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Torres Strait Islands – a government to government matter.

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By Susan Merrell Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has instructed cabinet to appoint an eminent persons committee to conduct a review of the Torres Strait Treaty with Australia.  He says: …for 40 years no government has ever stood up on behalf of Trans Fly villages. Indeed they haven’t Prime Minister, although there are some who have been pointing out the inequities for quite some time.  In 2011, I opined that only a government to government solution would work (litigation had already failed).  At last (and bravo!) a PNG government is seeking to effect a more equitable solution for the people of Continue reading Torres Strait Islands – a government to government matter.→

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