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by CASPER DAMIEN PNG is an independent nation since its Political Independence in September 1975. The political system adopted in PNG is called Westminster System from England. It is a Democratic System of government and the basis of its ideology is based on the slogan “Power for the people” meaning the power belongs to the people. They have the right and power to accept or reject a leader in and out of the Parliament. Hence, the freedom of each person is expressed through free voting of their leaders. Each elected member serves his or her term in the Parliament for five years and after every five years new national elections for choosing leaders begin again. All elected leaders are representatives of the people in the Parliament and they are means of bringing services and development to their people. Papua New Guinea ’s Constitution is based on the Democratic System of Government. “In the months immediately before Independence on 16 September 1975, the Constitutiona

By Government  Bureaucrat In the years after independence and into the 1990's, no PNG newspaper would print a letter to the editor that was harshly critical of any leaders.  It was expected and assumed that politicians should be given automatic respect, particularly Father of Our Nation Sir Michael Somare. Unfortunately, by the 1990s it was becoming obvious that our politicians were taking advantage of this automatic respect.  They were abusing the public trust placed in them by finding ways to stuff their own pockets full of wealth while supposedly serving the people's interest.   Corruption, which was almost non-existent in PNG until the late 1980's, began to take off, especially during the Sir Julius Chan administration in the 1990s.  In PNG we are sometimes very slow to respond to changing events.  The same seemed to be true as corruption took off in our country.   People didn't respond at first.  But with each new corruption story, people started getting fed u

by Gabriel Ramoi An Essay on West Papua Dedicated to all that have died in the cause of a Free and Independent West Papua. Part One : O'Neill & the Force of Morale Persuasion The earth shattering reversal of a 40 year policy of Denial by PNG on the plight of West Papua announced by Prime Minister Peter Oneill on Tuesday the 5THrd of February 2015 will come to be judged by history as the most important step taken by a sovereign state toward propelling West Papua towards Political Independence from Indonesia. It follow on the heels of that lone brave voice made by the Prime Minister of Vanuatu to the United nations in 2013 to put West Papua back on list of UN Trust territories and the Decolonization Committee of the United nations. The Statement by the Prime Minister is a bold move and one that that has not be made lightly. It turns PNGs Foreign Policy on its head and will no doubt rattle Australia and will keep Academics busy in years to come in analyzing th

by CASPER DAMIEN The reawakening of the ancient belief in and practice of sorcery and witchcraft is one of the post-independent development issues. Although sorcery has been recently (2014) outlawed in Parliament, it has not been effective and the information of the repelling of the sorcery act has not been really disseminated and descended to the bulk of the population in the rural areas. Sorcery now becomes a very frightening thing in our community and individual life. Almost everyone relate misfortunes and deaths to sorcery and there is now a tendency to points fingers at someone or accuse others for sorcery. This trend is currently bad in PNG and it can also hinder development and progress in general.   Development as we have seen so far refers not only to the economic or material progress of our people but also the spiritual, cultural, social and political aspects. Papua New Guinea is one of the unique countries in the world that has some of the best development