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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

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

JIMMY Maladina will contest the Alotau open seat despite a protest by sitting MP Charles Abel that he is not a resident. Returning officer Thomas Pilai said Maladina declared himself during his nomination last month that he was a resident of Alotau by filing the necessary documents. “He filled out the declaration forms that he has lived in that electorate for five years and I have no right to dispute that. “I tried to explain to him but he told me that it was his constitutional right,” Pilai said. “We had a lengthy discussion in the presence of other electoral officers and police officers.” He said all concerned parties, including Abel, would have the opportunity to challenge Maladi­na in court should he win the seat. Pilai said a report on the matter has been given to the Electoral Commissioner Andrew Trawen when the Alotau electoral team was in Port Moresby last week to deliver the nomination forms. Alotau election manager Dadu Daga said he was aware of Abel’s protest. The Nation

JIMMY Maladina will contest the Alotau open seat despite a protest by sitting MP Charles Abel that he is not a resident. Returning officer Thomas Pilai said Maladina declared himself during his nomination last month that he was a resident of Alotau by filing the necessary documents. “He filled out the declaration forms that he has lived in that electorate for five years and I have no right to dispute that. “I tried to explain to him but he told me that it was his constitutional right,” Pilai said. “We had a lengthy discussion in the presence of other electoral officers and police officers.” He said all concerned parties, including Abel, would have the opportunity to challenge Maladi­na in court should he win the seat. Pilai said a report on the matter has been given to the Electoral Commissioner Andrew Trawen when the Alotau electoral team was in Port Moresby last week to deliver the nomination forms. Alotau election manager Dadu Daga said he was aware of Abel’s pr

JOHN FOWKE May I issue a challenge to “: Kkingsley” and other well-spoken but  overly rancorous, nameless “Oz-ophobes”? Those young men whose plangent but puerile verbal torrents seem always follow my own occasional and humble contributions? The effort which Terry puts into the maintenance of this always-interesting and very worthwhile blog deserves opinion-pieces and responses which are both relevant and telling, rather than mindlessly bombastic and unreasoned. Please do respond, ol pikinini nogat nem, with due consideration and in a reasonably temperate manner, setting out some of your own well-considered  solutions for PNG’s obviously-pressing problems as opposed to relentless criticism and cheap, usually silly point-scoring. Lets use this blog as a platform for debate and the development of worthwhile movement and the fostering of a fairer, better share for all PNG’ans in their common-wealth and common welfare. May I suggest to you all that Australia has been a humane and unusually

JOHN FOWKE May I issue a challenge to “: Kkingsley” and other well-spoken but  overly rancorous, nameless “Oz-ophobes”? Those young men whose plangent but puerile verbal torrents seem always follow my own occasional and humble contributions? The effort which Terry puts into the maintenance of this always-interesting and very worthwhile blog deserves opinion-pieces and responses which are both relevant and telling, rather than mindlessly bombastic and unreasoned. Please do respond, ol pikinini nogat nem, with due consideration and in a reasonably temperate manner, setting out some of your own well-considered  solutions for PNG’s obviously-pressing problems as opposed to relentless criticism and cheap, usually silly point-scoring. Lets use this blog as a platform for debate and the development of worthwhile movement and the fostering of a fairer, better share for all PNG’ans in their common-wealth and common welfare. May I suggest to you all that Australia has been a humane and unusuall

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JOHN FAWKE Remember how we drank to the future and sang PNG’s praises in 1975? Who has a view and a plan now? I have. But having read this piece, ol lain autspoken intelektual but nogat nem,  try to restrain the vomit-like flow of anti-Australian abuse which would normally be your reaction to a posting  by John Fowke the Rednecked Ex- Masta, and tell the blog what, as an individual and as the member of an extended family and clan, you, an educated and opinionated and thinking citizen, are doing, actively, day by day, to try to influence the path your country may take in future which is obviously full of hazard generated from within its own political and empowered class. Papua New Guinea’s “poorest” region — the resource rich Western Province — home to the multi billion kina Ok Tedi mine — would rank just above Zimbabwe but below the Democratic Republic of Congo in terms of human development. This is according to new data unveiled by Deakin University’s expert in International Developm

JOHN FAWKE Remember how we drank to the future and sang PNG’s praises in 1975? Who has a view and a plan now? I have. But having read this piece, ol lain autspoken intelektual but nogat nem,  try to restrain the vomit-like flow of anti-Australian abuse which would normally be your reaction to a posting  by John Fowke the Rednecked Ex- Masta, and tell the blog what, as an individual and as the member of an extended family and clan, you, an educated and opinionated and thinking citizen, are doing, actively, day by day, to try to influence the path your country may take in future which is obviously full of hazard generated from within its own political and empowered class. Papua New Guinea’s “poorest” region — the resource rich Western Province — home to the multi billion kina Ok Tedi mine — would rank just above Zimbabwe but below the Democratic Republic of Congo in terms of human development. This is according to new data unveiled by Deakin University’s expert in International Dev

Even Australians like Patrick O'Connor are aware and reveal publicly that ONeill & Namah are in government at the full pleasure of the Australian Government. The Australian Government granted legitimacy to an illegal, unconstitutional, and illegitimate government. Everything that ONeill & Namah are doing is with the prior knowledge and concurrence of the Australian Government. Australia want peaceful access to the LNG Project and our resources. Australia wants to come into PNG and control it in the pretext of law & Order in election process. When the Supreme Court was still deliberating on the issue of legitimacy of the ONeill -Namah government, Australia granted recognition, thus pre-empting the Supreme Court. When the Supreme Court made its decision according to law it didnt accord with Australia. In effect, the Supreme Courts decision meant that the Treaties and Bi-lateral Agreements ( including the expanded ECP Agreement) that ONeill signed and sold our nation awa

Even Australians like Patrick O'Connor are aware and reveal publicly that ONeill & Namah are in government at the full pleasure of the Australian Government. The Australian Government granted legitimacy to an illegal, unconstitutional, and illegitimate government. Everything that ONeill & Namah are doing is with the prior knowledge and concurrence of the Australian Government. Australia want peaceful access to the LNG Project and our resources. Australia wants to come into PNG and control it in the pretext of law & Order in election process. When the Supreme Court was still deliberating on the issue of legitimacy of the ONeill -Namah government, Australia granted recognition, thus pre-empting the Supreme Court. When the Supreme Court made its decision according to law it didnt accord with Australia. In effect, the Supreme Courts decision meant that the Treaties and Bi-lateral Agreements ( including the expanded ECP Agreement) that ONeill signed and sold our nation awa

The illegal Australian-backed government in Papua New Guinea has engaged in further desperate manoeuvres and authoritarian measures to remain in office. Last Monday, police loyal to de facto Prime Minister Peter O’Neill arrested Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Kirriwom, after earlier detaining the chief justice Salamo Injia. The government also unconstitutionally convened parliament to impose a state of emergency in the country, providing police with sweeping powers of arrest and detention. The protracted political crisis in the South Pacific country began in August 2011, when Peter O’Neill and his parliamentary supporters ousted Prime Minister Michael Somare while he was receiving medical treatment in Singapore. Last December the Supreme Court ruled that this was unconstitutional and that Somare remained prime minister. O’Neill simply ignored the ruling and secured his control over the country’s military, police, and state apparatus. A supporter of closer ties with Australian investors

The illegal Australian-backed government in Papua New Guinea has engaged in further desperate manoeuvres and authoritarian measures to remain in office. Last Monday, police loyal to de facto Prime Minister Peter O’Neill arrested Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Kirriwom, after earlier detaining the chief justice Salamo Injia. The government also unconstitutionally convened parliament to impose a state of emergency in the country, providing police with sweeping powers of arrest and detention. The protracted political crisis in the South Pacific country began in August 2011, when Peter O’Neill and his parliamentary supporters ousted Prime Minister Michael Somare while he was receiving medical treatment in Singapore. Last December the Supreme Court ruled that this was unconstitutional and that Somare remained prime minister. O’Neill simply ignored the ruling and secured his control over the country’s military, police, and state apparatus. A supporter of closer ties with Australian invest

PNG is the laughing stock of the Pacific and the Commonwealth. There is no doubt that PNG is also the laughing stock of those decent law abiding nations of the world, some of whom have Embassies in PNG. One can only imagine how their Ambassadors here would have tried to explain the actions of the Speaker and Peter ONeill on 2nd August 2011. There was nothing in Parliamentary convention that would have helped any High Commissioner or Ambassador explaining to their countries what just took place.  The Report would have looked like this: 1. Please be advised PNG has new PM in Peter O’Neill. 2. O’Neill’s position is immediately in doubt. 3. There is a Supreme Court Reference filed by ESP challenging it. 4. By Background, from last Report you will note PM Somare GC still convalescing in Singapore Hospital. Parliament has recognized and granted him official Sick Leave. 5. Curiously Australian PM offered O’Neill Congrats despite the legality of O’Neill subject of Supreme Court Deliberation. 6

PNG is the laughing stock of the Pacific and the Commonwealth. There is no doubt that PNG is also the laughing stock of those decent law abiding nations of the world, some of whom have Embassies in PNG. One can only imagine how their Ambassadors here would have tried to explain the actions of the Speaker and Peter ONeill on 2nd August 2011. There was nothing in Parliamentary convention that would have helped any High Commissioner or Ambassador explaining to their countries what just took place.  The Report would have looked like this: 1. Please be advised PNG has new PM in Peter O’Neill. 2. O’Neill’s position is immediately in doubt. 3. There is a Supreme Court Reference filed by ESP challenging it. 4. By Background, from last Report you will note PM Somare GC still convalescing in Singapore Hospital. Parliament has recognized and granted him official Sick Leave. 5. Curiously Australian PM offered O’Neill Congrats despite the legality of O’Neill subject of Supreme Court Del

3rd time lucky PM VETERAN Papua New Guinean leader Michael Somare has hit out at rival Peter O'Neill, saying he had made PNG "the laughing stock of the Pacific and the Commonwealth". Mr O'Neill was appointed Prime Minister yesterday - the third time in less than a year that the 47-year-old has been sworn in as leader. He won office in August in a vote of MPs during the prolonged absence of predecessor Sir Michael, who was recovering from major heart surgery at the time. But Sir Michael, now 76, later recovered and has contested Mr O'Neill's rule ever since, taking his case to the Supreme Court, which has twice ruled that Mr O'Neill's rise to power was illegal and Sir Michael should be reinstated. "You have shown no respect for tradition or protocol let alone the rule of law," Sir Michael, who maintains he is the rightful leader, said of Mr O'Neill in emailed comments. "What shame you all bring to Papua New Guinea," he said. &quo

3rd time lucky PM VETERAN Papua New Guinean leader Michael Somare has hit out at rival Peter O'Neill, saying he had made PNG "the laughing stock of the Pacific and the Commonwealth". Mr O'Neill was appointed Prime Minister yesterday - the third time in less than a year that the 47-year-old has been sworn in as leader. He won office in August in a vote of MPs during the prolonged absence of predecessor Sir Michael, who was recovering from major heart surgery at the time. But Sir Michael, now 76, later recovered and has contested Mr O'Neill's rule ever since, taking his case to the Supreme Court, which has twice ruled that Mr O'Neill's rise to power was illegal and Sir Michael should be reinstated. "You have shown no respect for tradition or protocol let alone the rule of law," Sir Michael, who maintains he is the rightful leader, said of Mr O'Neill in emailed comments. "What shame you all bring to Papua New Guinea," he said.

People ask me how the politicians can do this or that. “What does the law say about this and that?” Before I answer I say, “the law doesn’t seem to matter anymore...but I’ll just try tell you what it says...” Is the law relevant anymore? We got people who make their own laws and amend and follow them as we go along. The true law, the Constitution, doesn't matter to them anymore. They're a law unto themselves. They are collectively now "The King"...they make the rules, interpret the rules, execute the rules...and they break it whenever it suits them. I can explain the law till I'm blue in the face. But if it's lost its authority to a group of whimsical men then what's the use? And if we are content to say "let it go, it's all good", then why should anyone be subjected to the law in the future? It has no authority except the authority we give it. Now isn’t it true that all we need is majority decision and we can do anything? No matter how unlaw