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  by  GREAT GRAND CHIEF SIR MICHAEL THOMAS SOMARE All I want to say is that it has been a great privilege for someone like me to be able to stand up in a distinguished foyer like this Parliament and I say this because it was in this very Parliament that we adopted the national Constitution of Papua New Guinea. By that, I mean, it was through this process of parliamentary system that we adopted the Constitution. It is very important for all of us and as I am making my way out, I had the privilege of serving the people of Papua New Guinea as a Member for East Sepik with all Parliaments since they elected me in 1968. I have not missed one parliament. I want to say this and I want it to go on record, to former Clerks of parliament, former Speakers of Parliament, and parliamentary councils and fellow Members of Parliament and parliamentary staff, the beloved Papua New Guinea here in our Parliament and elsewhere in our land and overseas today I stand here as an optimistic Papua New Guinean p

by PAUL BARKER 42 Candidates for Moresby North West! While this demonstrates a open democacy with people free to contest elections, it also highlights an underlying problem. There are no doubt some fine candidates eager to serve and improve the lives of their fellow citizens in the constituency and the country, but this immense eagerness to become an MP also indicates something wrong. The economy is largely driven by the private sector, businesses large and small investing and creating jobs and contributing to wealth generation and paying taxes, as well as delivering a wide range of goods and services needed by the community in a relatively efficent manner, (largely) through competititive processes. Public services are delivered by male and female professionals, whether nurses, doctors, teachers, engineers, accountants, economists, agricultural and other researchers and extension workers, social workers, clerks, cleaners, lawyers, police and others, in the public service, but also wi

 *Australia’s own history of apartheid in PNG*   Prof RON CROCOMBE This is a reprint of a 2009 article by the late Pacific academic and commentator MANY of Australia’s colonial and post-colonial policies and practices are a major factor in the problems of Papua New Guinea today, and cause some Papua New Guinean leaders to have serious reservations about their Australian counterparts. Despite being a colony from the 1890s, Australia ensured that Papua did not get its first high school until international pressure led to its opening in 1955. Very few others were built for a long time in a country of similar size and population to New Zealand. Likewise for three generations nothing was done to develop Papua New Guinean leadership, in fact everything was done to block its development and ensure that leadership roles and responsibility were held by Australians and that there was no chance for the development of national consciousness or leadership. I remember, in about 1964, being on a Qant

by SIMON PENTANU Like a candle you grew from a flicker to a national light that made everyone realise arguing for independence was not evil or risky but inevitable”. Simon Pentanu It was at the pinnacle of high school education at Hutjena, Buka, and the following final year high school at Malabunga, ENB 1968 that I started hearing about an angry young man in Papua and New Guinea. To be exact in the emerging politics of what was then pre-independence TPNG. Doing final year high school I wondered how long it would take before the colonial government pulled this angry young man aside and into line. To cut a long story short, when we were given the stock career book then at the end of high school to make our career choices, two things influenced my decision to apply as an interpreter in the pre-independence House of Assembly. First was the intriguingly interesting history of Indonesia we were taught at the school. The Dutch had to hand the reigns of sovereignty to the Indonesians and leav

by JACIN PERAKIN Part.1 and 2 report published in PNGBlogs captured some of the critical matters which of course requires a full-scale investigation into the Administration and financial affairs of the Department of Justice and Attorney General. This is a part.3 investigation report which focuses mainly on the payment authorized by Secretary for Justice before the close of 2020 which further stress on the qualification of payments and whether these payments were applied to the intended purpose and in accordance with the Department annual work. These payment includes the followings; 1. Payment for Accommodation & Conference Observation  The purpose of the creation of Budget Steering Committee (BSC) was to assess the availability of funds, review requisitions against source documentation and endorse for processing of payments before the Secretary grant his Section.32 approval before the actual cheque payment is collected for a particular service. · This means that, all rele