Thursday, December 15, 2011

NAMORONG REPORT: The political economy of the Somare-O’Neil standof...

NAMORONG REPORT: The political economy of the Somare-O’Neil standof...: Above: Protestors call on Sir Michael to step down “L’etat c’est et moi!” exclaimed Louis XIV, the Sun King of France. The dude was sayi...

2 comments:

Digger said...

Martyn Namorong blogged recently
".................Obama’s recent announcement of basing troops in Darwin was met with stiff opposition from China..................."
PNG's ongoing lawlessness poses a real threat to the stability and security of the region, particularly for Australia.
These are matters that are difficult for the average PNG citizen to fully understand but in the bigger picture are growing increasingly obvious.
PNG is feeling the effects of being a failed state despite its vast human and natural wealth.
Are there not:-
• Some of the worst maternal and infant mortality rates in the world?
• Plunging literacy rates?
• Collapsed health and education systems?
• Endemic tribal warfare in the Highlands?
• Unsustainable exploitation of natural resources?
• Decaying infrastructure?
• Massive administrative incompetence?
• Breakdown of public institutions such as the police and the civil service?
The United Nations Human Development Index highlight that PNG is one of the most miserably governed states in the Third World.
There is a Responsibility to Protect Report endorsed by the UN in 2005.
It argues that where states are unwilling to protect their citizens, or if they are incapable of doing so, the international community should step in.
Might such action involve aid for development projects, loans and investments, debt forgiveness, sanctions, sending corrupt leaders to the International Criminal Court, or direct military intervention?
As the former colonial power, and the biggest aid donor to PNG (nearly $20 billion direct over the three decades or so since independence and a substantial indirect contribution as well), Australia does has a moral obligation to help halt PNG's slide?
PNG is already a base for illegal immigrants wanting to come to Australia, at te prdjudice to the average PNG citizens.
PNG could easily become a base for terrorists bent on attacking Australia given events in Idonesia.
Many PNG citizens would welcome an international intervention in their country's public administration.
PNG citizens heartily sick of the incompetent, mendacious, self-serving political class that practices the "new cannibalism" so clumsily and with such dire consequences for almost all Papua New Guineans?
It does make a difference to a villager in Josephstaal, Madang Province, whether O’Neil or Somare is in Power.
O’Neil has started on reform.
Somare never did a thing, he’s far too corrupt and dishonest as the day is long to care about anyone but himself and his family, and, the state of PNG right now demonstrates this.
The only reason why Somare wants to be the PM is to avoid the hideous criminal charges looming in both PNG and Australia where he and his family are, right this moment, under investigation for International Money Laundering to the tune of nearly A$100,000,000.
If the people of PNG are not prepared to be responsible for their future they should not care about the outcome of events in recent days.

Digger said...

And the latest devloment from the Somare family crime gang.........
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BETHA SOMARE ORDERS CUT TO NBC FEED AT PARLIAMENT THREATENS STAFF JOBS

The world press freedom watchdog Reporters Sans Frontiers in Paris has received a very disturbing complaint about blatant political interference in reporting the current PNG crisis.
The complainant claims that Betha Somare ordered NBC to cut off the live feed of Kundu TV during the Parlimentary session when allegations of corruption in Somare's team were to be aired. It is also claimed NBC journalists have been threatened about reporting these corruption claims.
News coming in, PM O'Neill confirmed police have withdrawn their road blocks in key Government areas. His Cabinet (NEC) will be holding its first NEC meeting at 3pm at the Morauta Haus today.
The Armed Robbery Response Unit (ARRU) of the Police Force had just surrendered arms and have reported to Police Commissioner Tom Kulunga. The ARRU have been supporting Fred Yakasa and Team Somare. Signs of good things coming now!
The Papua New Guinea Trade Union Congress meanwhile its watching closely the current political impasse between the two factions.President Michael Malabag says he hopes the current deadlock is immediately addressed as it is bringing uncertainty and confusion.Mr. Malabag says he's concerned that the public service machinery and governance is currently dis-functional impinging on the national security of the country................"
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