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Power, position and pragmatism – the judiciary vs the executive in PNG

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By PNG Echo Cast your minds back to 2011/2012 – a significant time in the annals of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) political history It was a time when a defiant executive government squared up to a rampant judiciary in a struggle for supremacy that, arguably, was ultimately won by the executive government (who retained power) However, during the struggle, the judiciary (embodied by the Chief Justice, Sir Salamo Injia) never retreated and many a lesson about the effective wielding of power was learnt by the government players, especially in that which concerns the power, actual and assumed, of the Chief Continue reading Power, position and pragmatism – the judiciary vs the executive in PNG→

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Political shenanigans in PNG: Could the Chief Justice be involved?

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By PNG Echo. Veteran former ABC Journalist and Pacific correspondent, Sean Dorney, has called the recent spate of political and judicial wranglings in Papua New Guinea “stranger than fiction,” but are they really? It’s about power: wars have been fought for it, sons have killed fathers for it and innocent people have become a victim to it. And while the quest for power is rarely altruistic, hypocritical usurpers often invoke altruism to justify their lust for it. And so it happens in Papua New Guinea where the desperate, wanting the head of the Prime Minister, say they’re fighting corruption. But Continue reading Political shenanigans in PNG: Could the Chief Justice be involved?→

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