MAN HATRED KILLS WOMEN IN ELECTION

It is sad that PNG women did not fare better in the 2012 election.

First they missed out in the 22 reserved seats in parliament because the men in parliament did not vote for the legislation.

Women need women in parliament but women are not voting for women at election time.

There are people who blame this on the patriarchical society but it is much more than that.

We see a view blaming men on the gay supporting blog PNG Attitude from one good person Mrs Barbara Short.

She is a retired PNG expatriate teacher who has contributed much to PNG through education.

But she has forgotten in her letter below that women did not vote for women too.

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I think having a few well-educated, clear thinking, clever, honest PNG women in parliament would be a great influence for good.

One of my old students is a top lawyer/judge and I feel she does a good job. They need a woman member in the new parliament.

I wasn't thinking of them as the leader of the parliament, just a member.

But sadly in PNG the old traditional cultures of male dominance and disrespect for women, are still there in certain areas.

Posted by: Mrs Barbara Short | 13 July 2012 at 11:03 PM

It is too easy to conclude that women do not vote for women because of jealousy and disrespect for mothers.

They are prepared to leave the village to live in luxury in Port Moresby. It is more than that.

A major problem is that affairs of women have been taken over by United Nations and AusAID lesbians promoting an anti-man message.

They are telling the women of PNG that all men are bastards and all women are abused. PNG women do not want to be anti-man.

There are many women who hear this message and tell themselves their fathers, grand-fathers, uncles, brothers, husbands, church leaders and employers are kind and loving men.

The lesbians have just killed votes for women. Please click:

SEXISM IN REPORT ON WOMEN

EXAGGERATED REPORT FROM UN WOMEN

ANTI-FAMILY COUNSELLING

Women are afraid of foreign lesbians. They are coming to feel that their families are not safe with lesbians and lesbian supporting women in parliament.

Foreign lesbians in AusAID and the UN have been stepping over the fine line.

Women's groups know that the foreign lesbians will block UN and AusAID funding if PNG women's groups focus on a family message that includes husbands and fathers.

Their propaganda was printed regularly in the media. Hitler used the same technique to promote hatred of Jews. Please click:

FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS HOLISTICS: FAKE MEDIA ...

familypositiveliving.blogspot.com/.../fake-report-on-violence-of-me...Cached

16 Feb 2012 – She is deliberately seeking to mislead by quoting from anonymous

reports and then seeking the advice of the Head of World Health ...

They know that in 2011, foreign lesbians of the United Nations put the respected lone woman in the PNG parliament under massive stress in pushing her to support the legislation for legalization of gay and lesbian sex.

The prize for the lesbians was a lesbian or lesbian supporter winning one of the 22 seats and becoming Minister for Community Development.

This would lead to same sex marriage and adoption of children by gays and lesbians.

The women's movement in Papua New Guinea had its agenda compromised by the well-intentioned Greens Party led by Dorothy Tekwie. They were misused by Australians.

A senior lesbian in the United Nations is an Australian with PNG citizenship who is based in the Sepik, the home area of the PNG Greens. She is deeply involved in a lesbian agenda.

Last year at the time of the gay and lesbian legislation, the Greens of this country were visited by the leader of the Greens in Australia.

He just happened also to be leader of gays and lesbians in the Australian parliament. Please click:

Greens leader in last push for same-sex marriage rights | The ...

www.theaustralian.com.au/.../greens...same-sex.../story-fn59niix- ...

24 Apr 2012 – FORMER Greens leader Bob Brown will use a farewell dinner

with Julia Gillard at The Lodge to lobby her on the need to legislate for same-sex ...

This would have quietly split the unity of the women's groups of this country once the news got out.

PNG women need a message and agenda that strengthens families and marriages.

They do not want their sons and daughters to be going off to marry a person of the same sex.

They do not want their kids told they have rights, rights and no responsibilities

SEXISM IN REPORT ON WOMEN

There is a report on Google on the violence of men to women and girls in Papua New Guinea. Please click:

Untighten your fist

It gives a horrifyingly compressed summary of the violence of men in marriage, rape, bride price and every day domestic violence to wives and daughters.

It is a well written summary of how men are violent and women are abused.

By that token the report degenerates into lesbian and sexist propaganda.

It falsely claims that violence towards women is the norm in Papua New Guinea.

It seems there was a newspaper report some time ago that made the same comment. Please click:

FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS HOLISTICS: FAKE MEDIA ...

familypositiveliving.blogspot.com/.../fake-report-on-violence-of-me...Cached

16 Feb 2012 – FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS HOLISTICS ... Mr Murdoch,

please be advised of a fake newspaper report in the Papua New Guinea Post ...

We read that 64% of PNG men have most likely been involved in gang rape.

But the report Untighten your fist starts in the schools with bashing of girls by school boys.

It is a false report beautifully written that ignores what is going on in families.

There are hundreds of thousands of happy and loving families in this country.

There are kind and loving men by the hundreds of thousands who carry babies in slings in the street, stand for women in public motor vehicles and escort their children to and from school.

The report ignores the violence of women towards men and children. There are men who are regularly bashed by their wives, particularly in the highlands.

It ignores that more and more women in the highlands smoke marijuana and drink homebrew. Please click:

HIGHLANDS WOMEN AND GIRLS DRINK HOMEBREW

familypositiveliving.blogspot.com/.../highlands-women-and-girls-dri...Cached

15 Sep 2011 – We read in the media that there is an increase of women and girls

drinking homebrew in the highlands, particularly the Enga and Chimbu ...

There is no mention of women who do not look after families but play cards into the night. Their children go hungry.

The report does not pay any attention to the young girls soliciting money and sex by mobile phone. Please click:

GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN - FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS ...

familypositiveliving.blogspot.com/.../girls-just-wanna-have-fun.htmlCached

20 Apr 2011 – FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS HOLISTICS ... GIRLS JUST

WANNA HAVE FUN ... Many young girls are able to hold-up expatriate ...

No mention is made of effects of the Personal Development studies in schools from grades 6 to 12.

WORK PROGRAM FOR GRADE 10 - FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING ...
familypositiveliving.blogspot.com/.../work-program-for-grade-10.ht...Cached
7 Feb 2012 – This is the yearly work program for Personal Development for Grade
10 Papua New Guinea. It is taken from the following text book By Kenneth ...

The report ignores what is written about the increasing domestic violence among lesbians and their partners. Please click:

Domestic Violence | GLHV - Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria
www.glhv.org.au/category/topic/domestic-violenceCached
The website is written for people in same sex relationships who are, or may be,
experiencing domestic violence. It contains information on what domestic ...

In recent times, we read the false UN report on the violence and abuse of women in the markets of Papua New Guinea.

No mention is made of men who protect women in markets and streets.

Combine all that with the propaganda of the report Untighten your Fist and we have a realistic picture.

This report by Lorraine Basse will certainly interest the lesbians of the UN and AusAID.

FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS HOLISTICS: LESBIAN LIARS IN ...

familypositiveliving.blogspot.com/.../lesbian-liars-in-south-africa.htm...Cached

28 Mar 2012 – FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS HOLISTICS ... to setting up

fake statistics to show that women suffer under horrific violence from men.

FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS HOLISTICS: FAKE REPORT ON ...

familypositiveliving.blogspot.com/.../fake-report-on-child-labour.ht...Cached

24 Apr 2012 – FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS HOLISTICS ... In recent days,

there has been a fake report posted on the Jackson blog PNG ... They help their mother

by sitting at the road side or market to sell vegetables and betel nut.

 

Untighten your fist

LORRAINE BASSE | The Crocodile Prize

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN has become the norm in many parts of Papua New Guinea and is one of the many issues affecting our country today.

There are a number of factors involved with the three most common being domestic matters, bride price payments and the mentality of a male dominated society.

Most men regard women as objects and blame their wives for every little thing they find fault in. For instance bearing a female child when they want a male, work pressure, family obligations, forgetting to clean the house or wash the dishes, children crying, food not cooked to his liking, does not like the way she is dressing, no respect, not enough food in the house and talking to a male stranger to name a few.

This in turn leads to quarrels, arguments, disunity and to domestic violence within and among families creating a tension in the village, community, the society and the country as a whole.

Domestic violence is seen in most parts as a private matter. Therefore, whenever a man hits his wife, most people; neighbours and the authorities concerned pretend that they cannot see what is going on and turn a deaf ear.

Only some are brave enough to stand up for the victim.

Since most communities view domestic violence as a private matter, only some of the victims press charges, and prosecutions are rare; most of those affected by it, think it is normal.

Moreover, growing up in a culturally oriented society makes many women think that it is their duty to make their husbands happy and therefore, have no right to refuse sex with their husbands. They obligingly give in to their husbands wishes even though they do not like it.

This in turn leads to many problems and tensions in the family, the community and the society as a whole. These people who are affected by violence sometimes do not know they can get help, are too scared or are too ashamed to come forward.

Another matter viewed as private and a form of violence is rape. Rape in the past was regarded as a war strategy in most parts of Papua New Guinea and was therefore not seen as an issue. There was no concept of rape in marriage either.

Rape or sexual assault is ‘an assault by a person involving sexual intercourse with or without sexual penetration of another person without that person’s consent.’ Men have the mentality that: ‘My wife is my wife and whatever we do in the vicinity of our dwelling is our private business.’

The rapists when reported and apprehended sometimes do not face trial and walk around freely, especially if he or she was someone important in the community; sometimes they break out of jail.

Even though ‘rape is punishable by imprisonment and sentences were imposed on convicted assailants, few rapists were apprehended. The willingness of some communities to settle incidents of rape through material compensation rather than criminal prosecution makes the crime difficult to combat.’ Rape whether you like it or not, is a crime and should be dealt with accordingly and not something to be shunned or viewed as a private matter.

Wife beating too is seen as a private matter in almost all parts of the country. Reports show that some of the highest rates of violence and abuse of women in the world occur in PNG.

However, in 1986 the Law Reform Commission decided to take a stand and began its campaign against wife-beating. And now PNG is one of the few developing countries to embark on a ‘nationwide program of legal, social and educational measures’.

The immense public-campaign was carried out to try and change the attitudes and the norm of wife-beating. As a result of the campaign, some of the policies were changed and the constabulary ‘began treating wife-beating like any other form of assault and were arresting and prosecuting offenders.’

The other factor that mitigates domestic violence is the payment of bride price. Whenever men pay for their wives, they have a propensity to believe that they are their possessions.

In some parts of the country, especially in the highlands provinces, this type of practice is common. Men tend to view women as objects when they are being paid for. This gives them the mentality that they own women and they can do anything they want.

Men do not care about women’s feelings if they had paid their bride price. Some clans also give the men full responsibility and authority to do whatever he wants with his wife. Thus, paying a bride price tends to reinforce the view that women are property.

In 1987, a government minister said in a statement that ‘we pay for our wives, so we own them and can belt them any time we like’. Now this type of mentality has been instilled in the mindset of some men in PNG.

We can say that our culture says to beat wives if she is in the wrong but who gave you the right to hit someone? It is also against the law, and if caught then tougher penalties should be ensured to make the offender pay for his actions.

In addition, ‘in the villages, a husband’s right to chastise his wife physically was accepted, with some tribes even recognizing this by presenting a stick to the bridegroom in return for the payment of bride price.’
There is no law that limits the full participation of women in all aspects of
life, but the deeply rooted patriarchal culture sometimes stops women from fully participating in any development.

PNG as a male-dominated country gives few opportunities to women in communal life. Moreover, development itself can be a link to violence. There is also the rise of a new culture of boyfriends hitting their girlfriends at the secondary and tertiary level of education.

Rapid social change sweeps away centuries of old ways of doing things creating stress and insecurity. However, this has greatly changed in the last couple of years giving women equal participation in all walks of life.

Today, women are doctors, lawyers, managers, directors and officers to name a few. Women tend to jump in the race to show their counterparts that if you can do it I can do it.

Whereas in the past they just sat on the fence and observed. Women can now get higher positions and achieve their aims and dreams; they can aspire and become successful.

They fully know their rights and therefore, they do not get abused or misled quickly, unlike in the past. And now there is current pushing of the Bill for 22 reserved seats for women, which was originally included in the constitution but never passed into effect.

To conclude, the most damaging effect women face as a result of domestic violence and which they are forced to endure is the humiliation and pain of violence. As a result of violence women see themselves as weak, vulnerable, helpless, inadequate and helpless.

Domestic violence can surely be erased if both parties understand and do not abuse each other’s rights.  They must understand that it has drastic effects on the victim. Children too are affected by what they see in their families and there is a possibility that they can repeat what they observe in later life.

Therefore, men should understand that women are created to be their partners and not something to be regarded as under him; as the famous saying goes; “woman was created from the rib of man, not from his head to be above him, nor his feet to be walked upon, but from his side to be equal, near his arm to be protected and close to his heart to be loved.”

There is an urgent need for the government of the day to see and ensure that wife-beating is a serious problem affecting and affected by development.

The government needs to provide resources to deal with it because simple campaigns and awareness programs cannot solely eradicate the issue.


There should be a ‘Domestic Violence Act’ introduced to deal with such cases.

The churches should work in partnership to promote equality among their congregation.

The education department should set in place curriculums to deal with this issue in the schooling system from prep to university. It should start at the prep or elementary level because a child’s first years of growth will surely affect his or her life later.

There should be awareness within the family that violence is not an answer to a problem. “Family is the social unit of a society and the country as a whole.”

Outreach activities should be provided by the organizations and institutions concerned to raise awareness in the communities because sometimes people do not know they can get help or are too scared or ashamed to come forward.

Lorraine Evangeline Basse (25) comes from Manam Island in Madang Province.  She was born and raised in Goroka. She has just completed four years of studies at Divine Word University and will be graduating this year with a Bachelor in Communication Arts (Journalism). She is currently happily working with the Melanesian Institute in Goroka. She is the second eldest and the only girl in a family of eight children. Both of her parents are not working and she is currently taking care of her younger siblings. She likes reading books, writing poems and short stories, sewing and making necklaces and earrings. She also plays basketball, volleyball and soccer

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HIDDEN AGENDA AGAINST BELDEN NAMAH

The gay and lesbian war is widening but has become not what we think it is. The Australian gays and lesbians have seriously restrategized. Please click:

AUSSIE HATE CAMPAIGN AGAINST NAMAH

This time they appear to be interfering in the political process of PNG.

For the last decade, the gays and lesbians have fought through AusAID and the UN to set up legalized gay and lesbian marriage and adoption of children in this country.

There has been a lone fighter in the Pacific with AIDS Holistics that opposes the anti-family, anti-marriage and anti-men strategy of the Australian homosexuals.

Our blog has been read widely in Papua New Guinea, South Africa, United States and Russia.

The battle widened some 18 months ago when the Australian blog PNG Attitude and the gay and lesbian Australian company Burnet came out of the closet to attack AIDS Holistics and the founder.

The gays and lesbians had all found sanctuary under the previous Government. Gays gathered at the Shady Rest Hotel for discos and the Ela Beach Hotel for pizzas.

But the change of Government brought a new policy.

Under the signature of the acting Foreign Minister Jamie Maxtone Graham and Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah, an elderly paedophile was deported and not allowed back in. 

So as the election approached, a set up was devised to destroy the credibility of Belden Namah. Maxtone Graham appears not to have stood for re-election.

First was the Falcon Jet incident and the trouble claimed to have occurred at the Sydney casino.

Gays have a standard strategy and that is to call any opponent gay just like them. It is a lover’s quarrel. Pay no attention to what this person is saying. He is jealous.

We recall a report on internet claiming the founder of AIDS Holistics was a closet gay. Please click:

GAY AND LESBIAN HATE MAILERS STRIKE AGAIN

The claim was made by supposed workers at Sydney casino that Namah wanted sex with a man.

This week on PNG Attitude, a probable fake name claimed that Namah was gay.  The activists may well be up to their old tricks.

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Leonard, you must be seriously deluded if you think "Fiji is doing fine" under the military dictatorship.
Still, maybe you're right about him offering some positives. Belden Namah for PNG's first gay PM!

Posted by: Sirin Kapo | 10 July 2012 at 06:58 PM

The election counting is not over. But the Australian paedophile gays know that if Namah is elected, their days in PNG are numbered. They may end up in Bomana prison. Prisoners will love that.

Some of the ex-kiaps and graduates of the Australian School of Pacific Administration from the 1960s were gay and paedophile. Many later kiaps had signed up to avoid conscription for Vietnam.

Many had a lonely life in PNG and resorted to pastimes such as sex with women, alcoholism, stamp collecting and sleeping with boys.

So there will be contributors to PNG Attitude who want to make sure that, if elected,  Namah will spend his time on the backbench with no authority to deport paedophiles.

My only sadness is that Martyn Namarong wrote in his last report in support of gay and lesbian marriage. I hope he is not being groomed as the PNG Attitude silver bullet.

AIDS Holistics has a platinum bullet.

SUPPORT TO NAMARONG

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.

AUSSIE HATE CAMPAIGN AGAINST NAMAH

An Aussie herd instinct seems to be against Belden Namah. Whatever he does becomes the fruit for further negative comment.

One silly critic is even offended by his orange shirt he wore on the chair carry. Another claimed Namah was gay. Please click:

In defence of Belden Namah & his leadership

NAMAH CARRIED HIGH

Perhaps Australians are afraid he would put Papua New Guinea first in any dispute.

He did that as a second lieutenant against the Sandline mercenaries and was gaoled with other junior officers.

Like his superior officers Singirok and Enuma, he was one officer who saw that mercenary soldiers cause unnecessary bloodshed.

People of Bougainville had already suffered too much.

There may well be a covert campaign of Australians to destabilize Namah on the political scene.

Who advised the Indonesians of the flight across Indonesian air space?

Who leaked the report about alleged conduct of Namah in the casino?

The issue has died. All the casino needed to do was produce the security video tape.

There was a hidden motive a year later. No witness has come forward - just anonymous statements and a faceless name.

Now we find the rocking chair expatriates on the Jackson blog PNG Attitude giving vent to hate mail against Namah.

The implication is that Namah should be rejected by voters because the Australian rocking chair brigade does not like him.

They seem like the old men in the Muppets.




Belden Namah is presenting himself as Prime Minister material. Politics is the school of hard knocks.

He wanted to postpone the elections to fix the electoral rolls.

But people were too worried that this was the start of a dictatorship.

What if his intentions were honourable? His opposition to Sandline was surely of the highest order.

He was surely a scapegoat. Other explanations exist but history is judged by results.

Namah would undoubtedly crack down on corruption including paedophilia and illegal entry.

He would call a spade a spade. He will certainly never be an Australian Uncle Tom.

Australians must get rid of him.

The elections are not over yet.

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Leonard, you must be seriously deluded if you think "Fiji is doing fine" under the military dictatorship.
Still, maybe you're right about him offering some positives. Belden Namah for PNG's first gay PM!

Posted by: Sirin Kapo | 10 July 2012 at 06:58 PM

We look what voters will offer.
There are some goodies in BN and his leadership especially when we look at the late Bernard Narakobi's Melanesian Ways thinking.
Yet, we also have to bare in mind that PNG has a high levels of political fluidity; sooner or later we will be praising and singing, 'Long Live BN'.
I often hear people claiming that PNG is the 'land of the unexpected' and the truth is that many are admiring BN as they talk about the Fiji's current politics where they are saying that Fiji is doing fine under the military regime. The West was wrong!
The future of this state is unpredictable, the way things are going as the haves and have nots gap keeps widening.

Posted by: Leonard Roka | 10 July 2012 at 04:50 PM

Is there a 'wooden spoon' award being offered among the Croc prizes?

Posted by: Paul Oates | 10 July 2012 at 04:11 PM

Well, yes, 'he uses his own money'. That is apparent.
Where has 'his own money' come from? He must have access to millions of kina. Gambling? Where?
In comments from bloggers both for and against BN, I've not seen anyone mention the source of his wealth.

Posted by: Bob Cleland | 10 July 2012 at 03:50 PM

This is really hilarious. I think that KJ should place this under the "horror" section for the Crocodile Prize.
B. Namah - plays the fool in a Sydney Casino with heaps of money, is on a Falcon 900 jet in Indonesian airspace, wears delightful orange Hawaiian shirts, gets carried in a "litter" befitting Gaius Julius Caesar - nay make that Nero and his harp!As for comparing this fellow to the squashbuckling Bob Hawke, no way. Bob may have looked a bit funny in his very colourful jacket when Australia won the America's Cup and his subsequent comments but he did become a very good PM.
This Belden Namah, no comparison.
I nominate Simon's efforts to win the prize in the Crocodile Competition.

Posted by: Colin Huggins | 10 July 2012 at 01:47 PM

I think Keith is pulling our legs by posting this.
It's done the rounds of various PNG blogs and shows that the PNG Party is getting a bit better at PR.
Onya Keith!
_________

Nothing wrong with the odd contrarian view, is there? I can hear you all nodding vigorous agreement with me - KJ

Posted by: Peter Kranz | 10 July 2012 at 12:32 PM

Bob Hawke cleaned up his act, maybe Belden Namah can do the same.
On another matter, in the early stages of this year's Crocodile Competition we made several unsuccessful attempts to get the PNG government interested.
We did this both through correspondence and personally.
Quite a few people made positive noises but at the end of it all nothing eventuated.
This now seems doubly surprising given Belden Namah's patriotism outlined in this article. We thought he was aware of our efforts but perhaps it slipped the minds of his advisors.

Posted by: Phil Fitzpatrick | 10 July 2012 at 11:22 AM

With apologies to the Christians among us and based on this article shouldn't someone be making plans for Namah's crucifixion and resurrection after the elections?

Posted by: Phil Fitzpatrick | 10 July 2012 at 10:22 AM

Ask the people in the West Sepik if he has shown any interest in their development.
Where did all the money go from the discraceful logging operations that not only destroyed the rainforest but left the people with a polluted river system? Who allowed this discraceful operation in the first place?
I have my suspicions and so have the villagers of Amoi village.

Posted by: Trevor Freestone. | 10 July 2012 at 10:06 AM

Thanks Simon. I think you'll find in the Bible that there was another group called the Zealots.

Posted by: David Kitchnoge | 10 July 2012 at 10:03 AM

This is a joke right? A party political broadcast by a leading supporter of the PNG Party.
Compare this with Susan Merrell's recent analysis of Namah's "leadership qualities".
And his behaviour at Sydney's Star Casino earlier in the year, as exposed by the Sydney Morning Herald.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/the-minister-the-star-and-the-rules-of-the-game-20120313-1uyka.html

Posted by: Peter Kranz | 10 July 2012 at 09:23 AM

Keith, surely there has been a major error in categorizing the above item. It is clearly meant to be an entry in the Crocodile Prize under the "myths and fantasy" section.

Posted by: Murray Bladwell | 10 July 2012 at 08:59 AM

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UNDER-REPRESENTED, UNDER-FUNDED AND UNDER-TRAINED

We read recently of the Tyranny of Unicameral Majoritarian government.

In plain English, that meant a single house of parliament with a single member in each electorate. Please click:

The tyranny of unicameral majoritarianism

Readers need to recall that PNG has a 3 tier system with national, provincial and local level government (LLG).

We need to assess the system of control and accountability between the three levels. Please click:

ACCOUNTABILITY IS THE KEY

Provincial government was put in place by Papua New Guinea not by colonial Australia.

There was no hand-over and no preparation from Australia.

Some years ago, the Prime Minister the late Bill Skate spoke of the role of the Local Level Government in national development at the grass roots level as funded through the three tiered system.

Does this happen? Did it ever happen?

We may recall the charges in the 1980s laid against the premier of the Southern Highlands, late Andrew Andaija for misuse of public monies.

His defence in Court was that the Provincial Government had never received training in accountancy.

Has this improved over the last 30 years?

Some of the most skilled officers in accounting, acquitting and budgeting are PNG Head Masters. There are hundreds of qualified accountants in this country.

Sadly, so many officers at all levels are experts in the accountancy involved in cashing cheques that do not belong to them.

Do some cheques never reach the accountant?

Corruption in any country is like a rock being rolled. It reaches a tipping point.

Has the three tiered system reached its tipping point?

KILL THE LAND THIEVES

In the world, there are events that never change. White men have stolen millions of acres of traditional land often with murder.

School children in Australia read history that the land of Melbourne was bought by John Batman. He signed a treaty with the local aborigines.

Then he claimed the land as his. They had no idea of what he intended.

The man who owned Chirnside manor outside Melbourne made friends with the local aboriginal tribes and gave them food.

The last gift of bags of flour was laced with poison. They never came back.

We see that foreigners come to sign illegal deals with people claiming to be land owners to take the timber. They strip areas of timber.

Villagers can do nothing, especially when auxillary police are employed by the logger.

If I were a villager and wanted the illegal logging to stop, I would take the same steps as Australians took with the Japanese invading the Pacific.

I would seek to kill intruders, burn bulldozers and destroy ships. I would organize the villagers to fight any village body guards employed by the foreign company. This is war.

We saw on the Australian TV program 60 Minutes of an Australian who went to Peru.

He arranged contracts with villagers who could not read or write to take millions of acres of land for carbon trading.

They have not benefited in the least.

If I were a villager in Peru and he stole my land like that, he would die. This is the land of my children and their children's children.

A blow dart to the neck would do the trick. And he would never come out of the jungle.