TEACHER OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

I have been a teacher of Personal Development studies in PNG schools for several years for grades 8-10. As well, I ran a program of family living on Radio Morobe in early 2017.

The focus in these grades has been on family with emphasis on RIGHTS and RESPONSIBILITIES. For every right there is a responsibility.

The Personal Development curriculum provided the basis of the Positive Living message on this blog. 

So when the UN and AusAID advisors were saying the Positive Living message was fake, they were also criticizing the curriculum of the Department of Education.

The Positive Living and Personal Development messages were mutually reinforcing. Both gave students advice on practical living that they may well experience as they grow to adulthood.

Both curricula focused on marriage, fidelity, gender equality, family violence, choosing a wife/husband, family planning, rights and responsibilities of family members together with HIV/AIDS, exercise, nutrition, lifestyle diseases, smoking, alcohol and home brew abuse.

It may well be that this generation of PNG school children is receiving advice they never hear from their parents. Many will recognize the violence and abuse in their own homes. 

The violence of the future may come from young people who dropped out of school. Of course, there will still be school leavers who abuse their families in the future but the numbers may be significantly less. Gender Equality is the keynote message.

The Personal Development course does not include gay and lesbian sex with same sex marriage which has undoubtedly been noted by the United Nations. 

The fact of life is that PNG is not ready for such developments in society. There are other nations in the world with such views on gay and lesbian rights particularly in Africa. 

In this country, the danger comes from foreign paedophiles disguised as gays and lesbians. The world is being divided into two camps on gay and lesbian rights.

There would be a massive crisis in PNG education if these topics were pushed into the curriculum with no consultation. 

Let us hope that the recent elections have given the nation a wide range of Seventh Day Adventist and Lutheran politicians as in the past.

Bruce Copeland BA BEdSt (Qld)

Teacher of Personal Development, Positive Living and AIDS Awareness

Papua New Guinea

FAMINE AND POVERTY IN THE WORLD

The world is suffering from climate change. Every day we can watch the world weather report on BBC News to see rain bearing winds streaming across India, Bangladesh and Japan.

But not a drop is falling on Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen and Southern Europe. There are forest fires in Portugal and France while the Vatican has turned off the water in the fountains. Nations in North Africa are on the leeward side of the Sahara Desert.

Papua New Guinea is experiencing flooding rains daily with paths and roads flowing as rivers. The Bumbu River floods about twice a week fed by the thousands of small tributaries in the mountains behind Lae.

The country has an abundance of fruit and vegetables sold in town and roadside markets at cheap prices. No -one should go hungry. A family can be fed on a plastic bag full of vegetables every night.

Yet we read reports of children suffering from malnutrition that may result from lazy mothers giving the child money to go to the trade store for an evening meal of Coca Cola and Twisties.

Others give their families a daily meal of tinned fish and white rice. Parents in Yemen and Venezuela could not afford even this expense.

Papua New Guinea benefits from extensive rural areas and villages with hill sides of gardens. There is often enough produce for the family, village and town markets.

Now we read of deep problems in Venezuela faced with empty supermarket shelves and no flour for bread with a 600% inflation rate that brings slow economic strangulation. The President plans to solve the problem by suppressing the people not feeding them.

The question does arise as to the extent of the rural areas in Venezuela. Supermarkets may be empty but what of the village markets? 

Venezuela has depended on the sale of oil in a world faced with global warming from burning fossil fuels and now turning to solar and wind power. The problem will get worse until nations come to substitute their oil sales with other exports.

The world grieves for the small boy dying of incurable disease in England. There is no grief expressed for the thousands of men, women and children dying of cholera in war devastated Yemen.

Why can the world not gather funds to help the people of Yemen? There is an ongoing war in Yemen but the cholera is surely killing all sides to the conflict.

There should be a cease-fire until the pandemic is stopped. The outbreak will cause general genocide across Yemen.

The civilized world is selective in its grief. It was once said that a million people dying overseas is equivalent in grief to a thousand people dying in our country and two people dying in our street.

OPEN LETTER ON DEATH OF DR NIBLETT

I am writing as an old family friend of the Niblett family to express dismay at the lack of professionalism in the senior ranks of the Department of Health in support of the personal dignity of the late Dr Niblett and his wife.

Dr John Niblett was 78 years old and his wife was 73 years old. He worked in Papua New Guinea as an oncologist the only one in the Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. He was a compassionate man who saw that PNG citizens  were dying needlessly from cancer.

He was offered a salary package that was not his idea but put together by the Department of Health. He tried to involve another overseas doctor to take his place as he wanted the cancer work to be in order before he left. 

The new doctor left after 12 months due to dissatisfaction with the salary package, leave entitlements and the general disregard for cancer treatment in the Department of Health. The cancer machine kept breaking down which condemned dozens of cancer patients to death.

I knew of the compassion of Dr Niblett who was often in despair at breakdown of the cancer machine and the inability to help citizens dying of cancer.

Dr Niblett tried to have national doctors trained overseas but faced a brick wall from the senior levels of the Department. The Secretary of Health and Minister did not help to solve the issue. 

There seemed to be racism and stigma against Dr Niblett who was an old man crippled with polio and needed his own treatment. 

After his appointment was terminated, his rental accommodation was stopped at the Lae International and his personal effects locked away until rent was paid. He has been supported by the Prime Minister Peter O'Neill and Governor General Sir Bob Dadae.

His exercise machine was behind closed doors at the Lae International Hotel and he could not exercise his legs and chest muscles. He could not breathe without his daily exercise on his machine. The machine would be released with other personal effects when the rental was paid.

His health dropped and he died in distress and despair. He deserved more than that. John Niblett died just over a month ago leaving his wife to find accommodation and without an income contrary to the Court order. He probably died considering himself to be a failure.

His wife Andrea was alone with a grown up family overseas. She has had her tires slashed on her car and received abusive calls on her phone.

She has to take Court action for the final entitlements that should not have been necessary. The final payment should have been immediately and professionally forthcoming.

The Department of Health is showing that overseas doctors have to be wary of working in Papua New Guinea. There is a banana republic attitude in the Department of Health.

Andrea is afraid of being treated with contempt as a widow. In this country widows regularly find that their husband's entitlements never come. 

She is afraid to leave the country as she may not be allowed to return. She has to spend money to live and may have to stay for several months before the case comes to Court.

As an Australian citizen Andrea Niblett has not been given any support by the Australian High Commission.

GAY RIGHTS ARE PAEDOPHILE RIGHTS TOO

Every box of gay rights has poisonous snakes called paedophiles.

World leaders rush in print to say they are proud to support gay and lesbian rights . They are ashamed that they opposed these rights in the past. There is both naivety and dishonesty in their support.

They believe the propaganda that men have the right to love men. Women have the right to love women. What about the children?

There is an evil side of the coin with paedophiles using gay and lesbian rights to sexually harm children. Kids are not safe anymore either on the streets or on internet.

A massive army of paedophiles in the world expects that the rights to sex with children will come with gay and lesbian rights. They just have to pretend to be gay.

Gay rights are based on the paedophile agenda. They want (1) the age of consent to be lowered for children to have sex with adults and (2) children to be adopted by same sex couples. Children will often be handed over for abuse by paedophiles pretending to be gay and lesbian step-parents.

Gays and lesbians never distance themselves from paedophiles whom they regard as their brothers in sex.

A NEW AGENDA FOR SCHOOLS?

I am concerned to read reports that foreign organizations Child Fund and Save the Children are planning to be involved in literacy in PNG schools. Has there been authorization from the Department of Education?

My concern is that these organizations once employed mainly lesbian women who may now focus on school curriculum.

Does this mean that the Personal Development curriculum is the main target? If so, they plan to add a focus on gay and lesbian sex with same sex marriage.

The Green gay and lesbian party did not win a single seat in the recent election as they had nothing to offer except a secret agenda on gay and lesbian sex.

Most teachers in PNG are middle aged men and women with children and grand-children who would refuse to teach students about same sex relations.

There would be uproar in most PNG schools if the Personal Development teachers started telling boys they could marry men and girls that they could marry women. 

Teachers would go on strike. Parents would come shouting at the Headmaster and demanding that the Personal Development teacher be removed from the school. There would be chaos.

MY GRAVE WILL BE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

I have lived in this country for 22 years having left Australia after retirement from the Australian Army. I left my children in Australia with every intention of returning to my children. 

I have 4 children all adult at the time of departure, the eldest now being 48 years old and my youngest now 39 years old. All are well educated professional people having graduated from universities. 

There were 9 university degrees in my Australian family. I was pleased to have brought my children to the point of being able to look after themselves. My eldest is a dentist and graduate of the University of Melbourne. My sons are lawyers. Second daughter is a teacher.

I have lived in this country and have 2 wonderful daughters. The eldest Rachael is 20 years old and a widow with two children who now live with me. My younger daughter Lisa has been studying at grade 11 standard. I have been a single father for most of their lives.

I am now 71 years old and at the point of my life that I fear that I will die before my Papua New Guinea children become educated and independent. My children in Australia will not even notice my death.

My elder daughter Rachael is the best friend I have ever had in my life. She now looks after me and makes sure that all my basic needs are met. She cooks and washes my clothes. I give her all my money to look after each week. I trust her completely. 

I care for her children. She was taken from me by a paedophile man when she was 15 years old who gave her two children. I was sick at the time and could not get her back.

He wanted to take my second daughter too but I took her away to get her out of his clutches. He died a year ago. His eldest son calls his grandfather daddy. That will do until he is old enough to be aware that I am his grand daddy.

I had suffered badly over the years that my daughter was living with ex-speaker Nape. He did his best to isolate her from her father by banning him from his house and instructing the security guards not to allow him in the gate.

He claimed that he wanted to protect my daughters from their father as he knows they were being molested. He wanted my 15 year old daughter too. He was the paedophile who echoed the attacks made on me by foreign advisors as the founder of AIDS Holistics.

I would never accept bride price for my stolen daughter. She would first have to tell me she was happy and wanted to stay but that did not happen.

After Nape's death, the eldest son demanded that we return the two children as they belonged to their family. It gave me pleasure to advise him that since no bride price had been paid, my daughter and sons belong to her father. 

But my daughter is aware that there is total gender equality in her father's house. He only thinks like a blackfella on the matter of bride price.

I can never return to Australia to live. My children in Australia have no need for me and would probably put me in a nursing home as soon as they could. 

I have been afraid to leave my PNG daughters in this country while I go overseas even for a short visit. Their mother would never sign their applications for passport and visa. Now they are over 18 years. I have not been back to Australia in 20 years.

My daughters in PNG are totally dependent on me. They live in the house I rent and eat the food I buy. My elder daughter cares for me. She will look after me until I die. I need to send my first daughter back to study and seek work. She says she wants to be a lawyer.

I can not leave this country. There are so many people here and overseas who rely on this blog for advice on family, Positive Living and AIDS awareness. I need access to daily newspapers which would not be possible in Australia. I hope that Google is proud of this blog.

I am not anti-gay and lesbian. I write in support of loving families. I write against those who oppose family and promote fake news about violence of men and abuse of women and girls. Of course these things happen. 

But from a marketing point of view, the focus should be on loving fathers, mothers and children in loving families. 

Perhaps the day is coming when I support loving same sex families. But the gays and lesbians are not helping themselves by a paedophile anti-family message.


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WOMEN FAIL IN THE 2017 ELECTION

I was sad to find that of the 187 women who stood for election this year, all new candidates did not succeed.

I would not have supported the 22 reserved seats planned for women in the previous election. 

But it would have been good for the nation if a dozen or more good women were elected in their own right.