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By JASON GIMA WURI As Melanesians, it is only natural and fitting to stand up for our own kind or our own Melanesian brothers and wantoks as we call it in this part of the Pacific. With Australia’s regional resettlement deal hot on its heels whereby Australia seems to be shifting its asylum seeker boat issues to the lesser competent Pacific island nations in Papua New Guinea and Nauru in exchange for promises of development and funding. It seems like Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has ulterior motives to win the federal elections and does not care who stands in the way whether it be Papua New Guinea or Nauru. PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neiland his government as we understand are looking at it from a development perspective whereby funding is coming in from the deal to help bring about development in Manus Province  but do they  even consider the long term effects, whether or not the asylum seekers will be settled here? Recently reported on Australian Network this week, the Fiji G

By JASON GIMA WURI As Melanesians, it is only natural and fitting to stand up for our own kind or our own Melanesian brothers and wantoks as we call it in this part of the Pacific. With Australia’s regional resettlement deal hot on its heels whereby Australia seems to be shifting its asylum seeker boat issues to the lesser competent Pacific island nations in Papua New Guinea and Nauru in exchange for promises of development and funding. It seems like Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has ulterior motives to win the federal elections and does not care who stands in the way whether it be Papua New Guinea or Nauru. PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neiland his government as we understand are looking at it from a development perspective whereby funding is coming in from the deal to help bring about development in Manus Province  but do they  even consider the long term effects, whether or not the asylum seekers will be settled here? Recently reported on Australian Network this week, the Fiji