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Student protests: the missing Ingredients

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By PNG Echo. They say that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Here are a few historical lessons I’ve dug up for the protesting students of PNG to keep in mind. What’s the issue? On initial reflection, it seemed to me that the difference between the protests of the PNG students and other past student protests elsewhere in the world is that the PNG protests have been partisan and blatantly political, right from the word go – targeting one man, not even a government or a party and that’s not usual. For even though the Continue reading Student protests: the missing Ingredients→

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So you want Kerenga Kua as the next PM- Oh Please!

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By PNG Echo Social media has started throwing around Kerenga Kua’s name as a possible next Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. In my opinion, it’s an ill-considered notion and this is why: Firstly, having spent many years as the late Sir Michael Somare’s personal lawyer, Kua, no doubt, knows where all the bodies are buried, what’s more, as his legal representative he likely would have helped Sir Michael dig the graves. If Sir Michael knows a certain something about corruption you have to wonder who was the master and who was the apprentice in this relationship. Hypocrisy Secondly, the Continue reading So you want Kerenga Kua as the next PM- Oh Please!→

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