Australia's double standards and is O'Neill's Government illegitimate?
Whether you talk about merging the two airlines or the decision to terminate the Project Agreement with Interoil, or even to sack and appoint certain controversial persons to Boards of statutory corporations, this O'Neill Namah government does not have the legitimacy to govern this Country while the Jury is still out in the pending legal cases. Peter O'Neill does not have the democratic legitimacy to govern. His position is somewhat similar to Frank Bainamarama of Fiji who is a leader by the point of the gun, who usurped democracy. Australia and New Zealand have consistently upheld the rule of the law and disengaged with Frank Bainamarama. What has happened in the PNG Parliament is no different. What has happened is the subject of court proceedings at the Country's Highest Courts. We therefore in effect have a care taker government, not a real government with the legitimate mandate of the people of Papua New Guinea. The people will express themselves at the po