A Note of Caution on Political reform
By GABRIEL RAMOI There is growing misconception in recent public policy debate that PNG should yet again look at Wholesale Political reform as the antidote to growing felling of disillusionment and general malaise among our Young that our system of Government is not doing enough for them. This view seem to find support with the Deputy Prime Minister and also echoed by the Prime Minister. Regrettably the premise upon which this view is based is misconstrued and erroneous. PNG does not need wholesale Political reform it needs fine tuning of the existing system. The system of Government we have adopted at Independence as reflected in our country’s Constitution including the National Goals and Directive Principles and the Bill of Rights remains one of the best in the world. What PNG needs are leaders of integrity like those that sat and adopted the Constitution in 1975 to ensure that the dreams of our Constitutional Fathers as enshrined in the Constitution is up held and realised