Having read the report by Martyn Namarong I wish to express admiration for his outlook and capacity to explain a Papua New Guinea view. Please click:
What's right: mauswara from the buai market
He should have a better title. The title above has a PNG flavour that would be lost on overseas readers.
Martyn Namarong has been earning a living selling betel nut in the betel nut market. Mauswara is a Tok Pisin word meaning rubbish talk.
Perhaps that title was made up by the rocking chair brigade working for PNG Attitude with the famous Aussie penchant for taking the mickey out of friends. They can do better than that.
Martyn covers a range of issues involving double-standards. He refers above to Thomas Jefferson talking of freedom and pursuit of happiness but being a slave owner.
There was the problem in the slave trade of England and America of whether or not the black races had souls. On becoming Christian, slaves slowly gained the souls that they were supposed not to have.
Families had been broken up and sold separately. The sow would be sold off to farmer Brown. The young bucks were sent off to work on the Mississippi boats. No visitation rights.
Martyn raised the issue of Senator Bob Brown coming to PNG to give support to the people on the matter of Ramu Nico and Highlands Pacific dumping waste in the sea off Madang.
But he does not focus on the fact that Senator Brown is the senior gay in the Australian parliament, leader of the gay/ lesbian Greens party come to talk to the PNG Greens.
It was the same time of the issue of legalization of gay and lesbian marriage. Brown would have attended the debate at the Divine Word University that just happened to coincide with his visit.
He was there with retired gay judge of the Australian Supreme Court Michael Kirby who just happened to be there too.
Martyn talks of double-standards in people opposing gay/lesbian marriage but allowing heterosexual violence in the home. Be careful there Martyn. It is more complex than that.
As for hypocrisy and double-standards in churches, God knows ... from a distance.
Martyn Namarong is a voice for the future. He needs to be focused on reading between the lines. But that will come.
He really needs a job. He is too hot to be a journalist. We both share that problem.
Newspapers generally want radical sheep. They want journalists to sell newsapers but not rock the boat.
What's right: mauswara from the buai market
He should have a better title. The title above has a PNG flavour that would be lost on overseas readers.
Martyn Namarong has been earning a living selling betel nut in the betel nut market. Mauswara is a Tok Pisin word meaning rubbish talk.
Perhaps that title was made up by the rocking chair brigade working for PNG Attitude with the famous Aussie penchant for taking the mickey out of friends. They can do better than that.
Martyn covers a range of issues involving double-standards. He refers above to Thomas Jefferson talking of freedom and pursuit of happiness but being a slave owner.
There was the problem in the slave trade of England and America of whether or not the black races had souls. On becoming Christian, slaves slowly gained the souls that they were supposed not to have.
Families had been broken up and sold separately. The sow would be sold off to farmer Brown. The young bucks were sent off to work on the Mississippi boats. No visitation rights.
Martyn raised the issue of Senator Bob Brown coming to PNG to give support to the people on the matter of Ramu Nico and Highlands Pacific dumping waste in the sea off Madang.
But he does not focus on the fact that Senator Brown is the senior gay in the Australian parliament, leader of the gay/ lesbian Greens party come to talk to the PNG Greens.
It was the same time of the issue of legalization of gay and lesbian marriage. Brown would have attended the debate at the Divine Word University that just happened to coincide with his visit.
He was there with retired gay judge of the Australian Supreme Court Michael Kirby who just happened to be there too.
Martyn talks of double-standards in people opposing gay/lesbian marriage but allowing heterosexual violence in the home. Be careful there Martyn. It is more complex than that.
As for hypocrisy and double-standards in churches, God knows ... from a distance.
Martyn Namarong is a voice for the future. He needs to be focused on reading between the lines. But that will come.
He really needs a job. He is too hot to be a journalist. We both share that problem.
Newspapers generally want radical sheep. They want journalists to sell newsapers but not rock the boat.
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