This chapter examines the way in which the Post Courier , then Papua New Guinea's only daily newspaper, covered the emerging crisis on Bougainville in the second half of 1969 as landowners resisted attempts to begin work on the Panguna copper mine. It argues that although the Post Courier's...
Okay, I kind of lied about ending our survey of the British press, because it seems worth noticing that theGuardian, theMail, and theSunall pretty much agree on that. So to keep myself kind of honest, I’ll give you a link from thePost Courier, from Papua New Guinea. * A study f...
You may remember people heaping scorn on US President Joe Biden back in April 2024 forclaiming that his Uncle Ambrose was eaten by cannibalsin PNG (Papua New Guinea) during the Second World War. “He got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be ...
Papua New Guinea participated in the2020 China International Import Expo. The expo, Prime Minister Marape reportedly explained, was an opportunity for the country to connect to China and Asia and give a boost to global trade and economic growth.’ (FM100) Agribusiness Fresh p...
The Lihir gold mine in Papua New Guinea Derek Rose | Australian Associated Press |March 11, 2020 Australia’s largest listed goldminer says it expects to produce around 10 per cent less gold than previously forecast due to underperformance of its mines in Papua New Guinea and Western Australia...
The recent spate of power outages (70 in a weekaccordingto thePost Courier), and thesudden resignationof yet another PNG Power Chief Executive Officer after only nine months in the job have brought into stark relief the chronic crisis that afflicts Papua New Guinea’s power sector. ...
Jo is an Australian woman who worked as a volunteer teacher in Papua New Guinea. The school1she worked was a bush school, whose classrooms were made of bamboo and grass. There’s no electricity2running water. It took some students about two hours3(get) to school. The other day, Jo4(...
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It is still commonly asserted that 97 per cent of the land in Papua New Guinea (PNG) remains under customary ownership, just as it was when PNG gained its independence from Australian colonial rule in 1975 (GPNG 2007b; AusAID 2008). Indeed, some commentators believe that this abiding realit...
On International Women’s Day,Prime Minister Peter O’Neillaired a proposal to create parliamentary seats only for women. Papua New Guinea has 111 members of parliament who represent about 8.3 million people, currently there are no elected female members. (Post-Couri...