This report will appeal to the far distant Australians delighted say that PNG was given independence too early.
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But there is a deep problem in this country. The editorial of The National newspaper has responded with a report entitled We are What We Are.
That gives no comfort at all. The point was made by the editor that Australian people judge in terms of Australian democracy.
There is nothing wrong with that to a great extent.
But Australia has advantages that PNG does not have.
Australians have the old age pension, the invalid pension, unemployment benefits, sickness benefits and allowances for children.
Most Australian workers contribute to superannuation in organizations with assets of trillions of dollars. Most PNG people have nothing.
There are government officers in Papua New Guinea who retire to find that no pension comes to them.
After a lifetime of service on low wages, they retire to poverty.
Take the PNGDF and the Corrective Services. Many will die with no income for family. Their pension never comes.
The only hope for them is to elect a member with the K19 million DSIP allocated to each member who plans to share only with his clan who voted for him.
The fund is intended for the entire electorate.
An Australian politician may say: You did not vote for me but I am your Member and will care for you.
A PNG view may well be: You did not vote for me so you are my enemy. You will get no development as punishment.
The clan down the road gets nothing. There is an old saying that we do not feed our neighbours' pigs.
Politicians usually do not feed their neighbours. Having a member elected is a matter of life and death.
Many Members see the K19 million as their private money to be dispersed as they see fit.
Without excusing grand theft, the money that comes into Departments ends up in private accounts.
Why are the banks not charged with receiving stolen money? Such money is the only hope for the clans of Papua New Guinea.
So too car sales companies that receive billions from villagers who buy the latest top of the line vehicle.
We read that Australia is the Cayman Islands of Papua New Guinea. Australian banks feed on PNG corruption.
Only with an elected member may a village school get classrooms, health centres refurbished, bridges built and road maintained. Not always.
Many clans have had no development in their area going back to independence. This is democratic genocide.
This is the background to tribal fights at election time.
The 4000 odd candidates want to get their hands on the K19 million kina fund for their special clan members and for a luxury house in Australia.
New members are seen as instant millionaires. Courts, police and Ombudsman can not deal with this.
Nor can a battalion of Australian infantry.
If the electoral roll can not be maintained, the nation will slide into dictatorship. Why have elections?
This is the view of an Australian with a ringside perspective. Not a rocking chair in sight.
It must be too easy for corrupt officers of the electoral commission to delete the names of whole clans from the roll to remove a candidate competing with their hopeful member to be.
Violence at election time could be called the DSIP war.
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