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  LISTEN HERE Australia's Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Opposition Leader, Julie Bishop, has committed a future Coalition government to easing up visa restrictions on Papua New Guineans wanting to visit Australia. Seen from Papua New Guinea the current tough requirements are regarded as racist. And as our Pacific correspondent, Sean Dorney, reports Julie Bishop's pledge to do something about it was warmly greeted at a recent annual PNG business forum. SEAN DORNEY: Papua New Guinea's high commissioner to Australia, Charles Lepani, recently described as galling the treatment of Papua New Guineans wanting to get visas to Australia. The issue came up again and again at the just completed Australia/PNG Business Forum. Aware that it would, Australia's Deputy Opposition Leader, Julie Bishop, in her keynote address made a promise. JULIE BISHOP: If we are honoured to be the next government of this country I most certainly commit to ensuring that we can free up the v

  LISTEN HERE Australia's Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Opposition Leader, Julie Bishop, has committed a future Coalition government to easing up visa restrictions on Papua New Guineans wanting to visit Australia. Seen from Papua New Guinea the current tough requirements are regarded as racist. And as our Pacific correspondent, Sean Dorney, reports Julie Bishop's pledge to do something about it was warmly greeted at a recent annual PNG business forum. SEAN DORNEY: Papua New Guinea's high commissioner to Australia, Charles Lepani, recently described as galling the treatment of Papua New Guineans wanting to get visas to Australia. The issue came up again and again at the just completed Australia/PNG Business Forum. Aware that it would, Australia's Deputy Opposition Leader, Julie Bishop, in her keynote address made a promise. JULIE BISHOP: If we are honoured to be the next government of this country I most certainly commit to ensuring that we can free up the

Is it possible that drug-resistant TB is spreading from PNG’s Western Province into Australia? The answer according to a  Queensland Health Department spokesman is “Yes. We have not seen a case yet in an Australian resident of the Torres Strait, but the likelihood is that the disease is there, lying dormant in people who still look healthy, and will show up in the next two or three years,” the spokesman said. “ PNG has not been able to cope with the TB problem and for this reason we have helped as much as possible,” this spokesman continued. “ We have been running clinics for Papua New Guinean TB-sufferers on Boigu and Saibai Islands  for some years now, and funds have just been provided to PNG to take up this work themselves.” Papua New Guinea once maintained an active TB Control Unit with teams operating throughout the nation, but this activity ceased many years ago, and treatment for TB sufferers, like medical treatment in general, is hit-and-miss at best, as frequently reported in

Is it possible that drug-resistant TB is spreading from PNG’s Western Province into Australia? The answer according to a  Queensland Health Department spokesman is “Yes. We have not seen a case yet in an Australian resident of the Torres Strait, but the likelihood is that the disease is there, lying dormant in people who still look healthy, and will show up in the next two or three years,” the spokesman said. “ PNG has not been able to cope with the TB problem and for this reason we have helped as much as possible,” this spokesman continued. “ We have been running clinics for Papua New Guinean TB-sufferers on Boigu and Saibai Islands  for some years now, and funds have just been provided to PNG to take up this work themselves.” Papua New Guinea once maintained an active TB Control Unit with teams operating throughout the nation, but this activity ceased many years ago, and treatment for TB sufferers, like medical treatment in general, is hit-and-miss at best, as frequently reported i

Unlike ordinary Acts of Parliament where sometimes layman will find it hard to read and appreciate the true meaning and purpose of a particular law because of the way the legal draftsman has styled the wording in legal lingo, anyone can read the Mama Lo and find it quite easy to understand. It is written in PLAIN, SIMPLE, UNAMBIGUOUS, ORDINARY and CLEAR English Language that even a primary school student with good understanding of English will understand what it is saying. The CONSTITUTION is a document that is written for EVERYONE, persons of all walks of life, it is not just for the lawyers and judges but for every man on the street and in the villages. It is therefore so DAMN CONFUSING and IRRITATING when so-called lawyers can DELIBERATELY AND CALLOUSLY MISREAD, MISCONSTRUE, MISINTERPRET AND MISAPPLY the Constitution section 142 (2) simply to derail the AUTHORITY and SUPREMACY of the Constitution so that they can instil and promote their own and that of their cohorts (in the guise o

Unlike ordinary Acts of Parliament where sometimes layman will find it hard to read and appreciate the true meaning and purpose of a particular law because of the way the legal draftsman has styled the wording in legal lingo, anyone can read the Mama Lo and find it quite easy to understand. It is written in PLAIN, SIMPLE, UNAMBIGUOUS, ORDINARY and CLEAR English Language that even a primary school student with good understanding of English will understand what it is saying. The CONSTITUTION is a document that is written for EVERYONE, persons of all walks of life, it is not just for the lawyers and judges but for every man on the street and in the villages. It is therefore so DAMN CONFUSING and IRRITATING when so-called lawyers can DELIBERATELY AND CALLOUSLY MISREAD, MISCONSTRUE, MISINTERPRET AND MISAPPLY the Constitution section 142 (2) simply to derail the AUTHORITY and SUPREMACY of the Constitution so that they can instil and promote their own and that of their cohorts (in the guise

In a recent email exchange between me and a lawyer for the ONamah “govt”, I came to realise the rationale behind the “govt’s” lawyers in carrying out, in almost a blank robotic devoid-of-conscience manner, their clients’ instructions. Two significant perceptions were revealed in the email exchanges There are lessons here for this election period: 1.       The Elected leaders are the ONLY people mandated to think up and decide what is in the nation’s “BEST INTEREST”. I was scolded because I was putting forward my opinions on what’s best for PNG, when I had NO MANDATE to decide. That disqualifies YOU and me, and EVERY ONE else who is NOT an elected leader, from thinking up and deciding what is the Nation’s best interest. So we’re all wasting our time discussing and debating on Sharp Talk or anywhere else right? This is an amazing perspective that this lawyer has. We are expected to be blind citizens, blind public servants, devoid of any independent ability to assess whether an act or omi

In a recent email exchange between me and a lawyer for the ONamah “govt”, I came to realise the rationale behind the “govt’s” lawyers in carrying out, in almost a blank robotic devoid-of-conscience manner, their clients’ instructions. Two significant perceptions were revealed in the email exchanges There are lessons here for this election period: 1.       The Elected leaders are the ONLY people mandated to think up and decide what is in the nation’s “BEST INTEREST”. I was scolded because I was putting forward my opinions on what’s best for PNG, when I had NO MANDATE to decide. That disqualifies YOU and me, and EVERY ONE else who is NOT an elected leader, from thinking up and deciding what is the Nation’s best interest. So we’re all wasting our time discussing and debating on Sharp Talk or anywhere else right? This is an amazing perspective that this lawyer has. We are expected to be blind citizens, blind public servants, devoid of any independent ability to assess whether an act or omi

SYDNEY — The developed world's insatiable appetite for products like coffee and timber is threatening the survival of one in three vulnerable animal species in poor countries, according to an Australian study. Academics at the University of Sydney spent five years tracking the world economy, evaluating over five billion supply chains connecting consumers to over 15,000 commodities produced in 187 countries. They particularly focused on the global trade of goods implicated in biodiversity loss such as coffee, cocoa, and lumber, with the data cross-referenced with a global register of 25,000 vulnerable species. The study, which was published in the scientific journal Nature, concluded that international trade chains can accelerate degradation in locations far removed from where the product is bought. "Until now these relationships have only been poorly understood," said lead author Manfred Lenzen, from the university's Integrated Sustainability Analysis group. "Our