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Oh the irony! Students breaking the law to insist on the rule of law.

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By PNG Echo. Let’s be blunt: the students – or the militant minority, have got exactly what they want. Page four of yesterday’s Post Courier foretold it all: According to reporter Nellie Setapano, an illegal forum had been overseen by Students’ Representative Council President, Kenneth Rapa and attended by less than 300 students where a strategy was formed to deliberately defy and provoke police. The stated aim of the militant ones was to get themselves arrested in order to gain public attention, sympathy and support. But even with this pitifully poor turnout, it was reported that a large number of Continue reading Oh the irony! Students breaking the law to insist on the rule of law.→

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The writing on the wall: The by-election has spoken.

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By PNG Echo. There are many who gratuitously and arrogantly claim to speak for the silent majority in PNG. It’s an easy claim to make because this majority, by definition, does not usually indicate their preferences. Well… not usually, but sometimes they do, and when they do they speak clearly, unambiguously and unequivocally – and that’s exactly what they’ve done and it is contrary to what the noisy minority would have you believe. The Protests and protestors In Papua New Guinea, at present, students are being whipped into mass hysteria by opponents of the government – and it’s a big Continue reading The writing on the wall: The by-election has spoken.→

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