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By DAVID EPHRAIM Election related violence has cost state millions of money to correct democratic exercise of ballot box vote. Election related violence has continued to drag the entire country. Violence continues to pressure our judiciary system; when politician continue to battle out and pressure the courts and the rule of law. The abuse of progress and mechanism for political gain and the ability to use state resources for political gain is totally uncalled act of suppression and oppression by those who are given mandated powers.  I have come to a stage where I no longer believe in united Papua New Guinea, I have totally lost confidence in our united efforts to correct many wrongs that continue to divide and tore our country into ethnic divide. Let’s wake up to the reality, money “DON’T BUY FREEDOM, ALLIANCE, UNITY or NATIONALISM”. It’s Leadership that inspires and drives nation together. We have lost that; the reflection of what is happening in our villages to semi-developed towns

By DAVID EPHRAIM Election related violence has cost state millions of money to correct democratic exercise of ballot box vote. Election related violence has continued to drag the entire country. Violence continues to pressure our judiciary system; when politician continue to battle out and pressure the courts and the rule of law. The abuse of progress and mechanism for political gain and the ability to use state resources for political gain is totally uncalled act of suppression and oppression by those who are given mandated powers.  I have come to a stage where I no longer believe in united Papua New Guinea, I have totally lost confidence in our united efforts to correct many wrongs that continue to divide and tore our country into ethnic divide. Let’s wake up to the reality, money “DON’T BUY FREEDOM, ALLIANCE, UNITY or NATIONALISM”. It’s Leadership that inspires and drives nation together. We have lost that; the reflection of what is happening in our villages to semi-develo

The Age The Rudd government's Papua New Guinea Solution faces its first legal challenge, with lawyers representing an asylum seeker who has been sent to Manus Island set to launch High Court action on Tuesday. Lawyers for the asylum seeker earlier lodged an application in the Federal Court, but have accepted that it does not have jurisdiction to handle the case. The challenge will assert that the decision to send the asylum seeker to PNG is illegal because it fails to take account of Australia's international treaty obligations and PNG domestic law. It will argue that Immigration Minister Tony Burke had before him no evidence that Papua New Guinea would act, or was capable of acting, in accord with assurances that asylum seekers would not be at risk of being sent to another country where they had a well-founded fear of persecution. Lawyers for the asylum seeker will also submit that the decision to send him to Manus Island was made without power, is invalid and should be set as

The Age The Rudd government's Papua New Guinea Solution faces its first legal challenge, with lawyers representing an asylum seeker who has been sent to Manus Island set to launch High Court action on Tuesday. Lawyers for the asylum seeker earlier lodged an application in the Federal Court, but have accepted that it does not have jurisdiction to handle the case. The challenge will assert that the decision to send the asylum seeker to PNG is illegal because it fails to take account of Australia's international treaty obligations and PNG domestic law. It will argue that Immigration Minister Tony Burke had before him no evidence that Papua New Guinea would act, or was capable of acting, in accord with assurances that asylum seekers would not be at risk of being sent to another country where they had a well-founded fear of persecution. Lawyers for the asylum seeker will also submit that the decision to send him to Manus Island was made without power, is invalid and

The revelations from research by the James Cook University on oil palm being used by developers as a cover for logging should not come as a surprise to Papua New Guineans. “It is crucial that the real intentions of developers are understood and highlighted so the PNG Government can manage the property appropriately. At present a lot of people around the world think that buying products containing palm oil encourages deforestation, but boycotting those products at the supermarket is not going to stop loss of forest in PNG,” he added. The controversy relating to the Government’s Special Agriculture and Business Lease (SABL) is well documented in PNG, compelling the government of then acting Prime Minister Sam Abal in 2011 and a year later PM Peter O’Neill to support and establish a commission of inquiry. It is a pity that the commission of inquiry into the SABLs is yet to hand a final report to the Government as the findings of the research co-authored by the JCU’s Dr Paul Nelson and Jen

The revelations from research by the James Cook University on oil palm being used by developers as a cover for logging should not come as a surprise to Papua New Guineans. “It is crucial that the real intentions of developers are understood and highlighted so the PNG Government can manage the property appropriately. At present a lot of people around the world think that buying products containing palm oil encourages deforestation, but boycotting those products at the supermarket is not going to stop loss of forest in PNG,” he added. The controversy relating to the Government’s Special Agriculture and Business Lease (SABL) is well documented in PNG, compelling the government of then acting Prime Minister Sam Abal in 2011 and a year later PM Peter O’Neill to support and establish a commission of inquiry. It is a pity that the commission of inquiry into the SABLs is yet to hand a final report to the Government as the findings of the research co-authored by the JCU’s Dr Paul Nelson an

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