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Manus Island Detention Centre – Who’s running PNG?

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By PNG Echo. Firstly, let me go on record as saying that I couldn’t be happier that the abomination that is the Manus Island Detention Centre will soon cease to exist. It has gone way beyond my ken to think that one government could conceive of such a place and another government go along with it and I said so, many years ago. But forgetting about the asylum seekers (which they did) this treaty allowed political jockeying to strip both governments of all vestiges of humanity, to put political self-interest before the rights of the most unfortunate men, women and Continue reading Manus Island Detention Centre – Who’s running PNG?→

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Maladina Innocent.

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By PNG Echo. A unanimous decision by a three-man bench of the Supreme Court (Gavara-Nanu, Sawong and Higgins) upheld the appeal by Jimmy Maladina against his two convictions: conspiring to defraud and misappropriation in the National Provident Fund matter (NPF) that reaches back almost two decades. it’s taken a while to established that Jimmy Maladina is innocent – but he always has been. Maladina’s conviction was based on conjecture and misdirection and was a clear case where justice was miscarried according to reviewing Judge Gavara-Nanu. It is all about more of that ‘trite law’ that I wrote about in my Continue reading Maladina Innocent.→

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