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Thoughts on a colonial mindset.

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By PNG Echo I am often asked what attracted me to the politics of Papua New Guinea. I can only reply by evoking the country of my birth – Wales. Although I left Wales as a teenager, Wales has never left me – I see in Papua New Guinea many reflections of Wales – especially in the struggle for identity. My Country Today I was reminded of poet, Gerallt Lloyd Owen: a fiercely patriotic Welshman who, in 1972, published an antholology of poems entitled: ‘Cerddi’r Cywilydd’ which, translated from our language (Welsh),  means ‘The Poems of Shame’. The poems were Continue reading Thoughts on a colonial mindset.→

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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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