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The Kramer Effect

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By PNG Echo The people of Papua New Guinea have always been Kramer’s pawns. He rode to power on the back of popular issues that he promised to solve, including the promise to bring powerful (and allegedly corrupt) people to justice, especially the then Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill who, at the time, was getting a lot of flak (and I do mean a lot) on the pages of the country’s social media over many of his more controversial decisions. Kramer took the temperature of the nation and gave them a placebo – for which he was almost deified, and he Continue reading The Kramer Effect→

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Political shenanigans in PNG: Could the Chief Justice be involved?

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By PNG Echo. Veteran former ABC Journalist and Pacific correspondent, Sean Dorney, has called the recent spate of political and judicial wranglings in Papua New Guinea “stranger than fiction,” but are they really? It’s about power: wars have been fought for it, sons have killed fathers for it and innocent people have become a victim to it. And while the quest for power is rarely altruistic, hypocritical usurpers often invoke altruism to justify their lust for it. And so it happens in Papua New Guinea where the desperate, wanting the head of the Prime Minister, say they’re fighting corruption. But Continue reading Political shenanigans in PNG: Could the Chief Justice be involved?→

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