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Steve Reynolds Papua New Guineans, we are about to celebrate independence day tomorrow. But ALREADY WORRIED to celebrate the eve when : Government (P. O’Neil and his delegation) in Russia are going to spend PNG taxpayers money K12 Million- For absolutely nothing- Its really hard to get that sort of money when we cry for it in our services which takes years for delivery but this government looks fit to make transactions possible within days to finance the trip-WHAT IS PNG BENEFITING FROM THIS TRIP???; Brokering K6 Billion loan in China when we cannot control our accounts and financial management system in the country; My children will suffer to pay this huge loan that is obtained by crooks. In effect, 10-20% of the money will go to the private accounts of people who brokered it…It has been the case and it will be case. And How will this money will be spent? What are the budget or expenditure framework devised to necessitate the expenditure? What are the time line for repayments? Which

Steve Reynolds Papua New Guineans, we are about to celebrate independence day tomorrow. But ALREADY WORRIED to celebrate the eve when : Government (P. O’Neil and his delegation) in Russia are going to spend PNG taxpayers money K12 Million- For absolutely nothing- Its really hard to get that sort of money when we cry for it in our services which takes years for delivery but this government looks fit to make transactions possible within days to finance the trip-WHAT IS PNG BENEFITING FROM THIS TRIP???; Brokering K6 Billion loan in China when we cannot control our accounts and financial management system in the country; My children will suffer to pay this huge loan that is obtained by crooks. In effect, 10-20% of the money will go to the private accounts of people who brokered it…It has been the case and it will be case. And How will this money will be spent? What are the budget or expenditure framework devised to necessitate the expenditure? What are the time line for repayments? Whic

HAVE A GREAT DAY CELEBRATING OUR NATIONAL DAY, SEPTEMBER 16 1975

HAVE A GREAT DAY CELEBRATING OUR NATIONAL DAY, SEPTEMBER 16 1975

THE Papua New Guinea Defence Force is made up of three integral parts: the Land, Sea and Air elements. The Land element is the Army. Its flagships are the two Infantry battalions: the First Royal Pacific Islands Regiment and 2RPIR based at Taurama Barracks in Port Moresby and Moem Barracks in Wewak respectively. The two battalions are also responsible for running the country’s two infantry Forward Operations Bases (FOBs), one located in Kiunga in Western Province for 1RPIR and the other in Vanimo, West Sepik Province, for 2RPIR. Soldiers from the two infantry battalions are deployed to the two FOBs and serve four to six month stints there. Their primary role is to patrol strategic areas of parts of the 700km land border between PNG and Indonesia, gather military intelligence and report back to HQ, carry the flag, promote government’s presence in remote villages, engage in disaster and emergency duties and such other tasks as directed by their commanding officers at the FOBs and back at

THE Papua New Guinea Defence Force is made up of three integral parts: the Land, Sea and Air elements. The Land element is the Army. Its flagships are the two Infantry battalions: the First Royal Pacific Islands Regiment and 2RPIR based at Taurama Barracks in Port Moresby and Moem Barracks in Wewak respectively. The two battalions are also responsible for running the country’s two infantry Forward Operations Bases (FOBs), one located in Kiunga in Western Province for 1RPIR and the other in Vanimo, West Sepik Province, for 2RPIR. Soldiers from the two infantry battalions are deployed to the two FOBs and serve four to six month stints there. Their primary role is to patrol strategic areas of parts of the 700km land border between PNG and Indonesia, gather military intelligence and report back to HQ, carry the flag, promote government’s presence in remote villages, engage in disaster and emergency duties and such other tasks as directed by their commanding officers at the FOBs and ba

Bob Carr's threat of sanctions against PNG if it dared to delay the scheduled election was an important moment in the education of Bob. Not the least problem with Carr's short-lived thought balloon in his first days as foreign minister, as it was explained by his new department, was the reality that Australia would have a lot of trouble getting the rest of the South Pacific to embrace any action against PNG. To follow that thought, come back down the time tunnel to the day after Carr had been sworn in, his first full day as foreign minister. What was virtually Carr's maiden interview was with that old-Labor-mate-turned-TV-interviewer Graham Richardson. Everything was so new the transcript never got posted on the DFAT website; the maiden effort was not kept for posterity because its sentiments were so quickly shredded. Surveying the array of issues about to confront the new minister, Richardson asked about the speculation then coming out of Port Moresby of some de

Bob Carr's threat of sanctions against PNG if it dared to delay the scheduled election was an important moment in the education of Bob. Not the least problem with Carr's short-lived thought balloon in his first days as foreign minister, as it was explained by his new department, was the reality that Australia would have a lot of trouble getting the rest of the South Pacific to embrace any action against PNG. To follow that thought, come back down the time tunnel to the day after Carr had been sworn in, his first full day as foreign minister. What was virtually Carr's maiden interview was with that old-Labor-mate-turned-TV-interviewer Graham Richardson. Everything was so new the transcript never got posted on the DFAT website; the maiden effort was not kept for posterity because its sentiments were so quickly shredded. Surveying the array of issues about to confront the new minister, Richardson asked about the speculation then coming out of Port Moresby of

By Stephen Lee It’s one of our closest neighbours, but there’s a huge gulf between Papua New Guinea and Australia when it comes to gay rights. Less than a thousand kilometres separate the two nations but homosexuality in PNG is still illegal. And despite a new government, there seems little hope for change. Being openly gay in Papua New Guinea could put you in jail for up to 14 years. Homosexuality is illegal, an archaic hangover from colonial British times. Though the laws aren’t strictly enforced, gay men say they face daily discrimination, and often struggle to find work. Moses Tau knew he was gay from a young age but struggled with his identity. “It was very painful my growing up,” he told SBS World News Australia reporter Kathy Novak. “Sometimes I’d ask the Creator – Why am I like this? What’s the reason? Is there any exit or any way out for me?” Moses put his energy into singing and became a recording artist. But when he was picked to represent PNG at Sydney Mardi Gras in 2000, t