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Manus Island Detention Centre – Who’s running PNG?

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By PNG Echo. Firstly, let me go on record as saying that I couldn’t be happier that the abomination that is the Manus Island Detention Centre will soon cease to exist. It has gone way beyond my ken to think that one government could conceive of such a place and another government go along with it and I said so, many years ago. But forgetting about the asylum seekers (which they did) this treaty allowed political jockeying to strip both governments of all vestiges of humanity, to put political self-interest before the rights of the most unfortunate men, women and Continue reading Manus Island Detention Centre – Who’s running PNG?→

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Is TB Australia’s problem? Maybe not long from now.

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I wrote this three years ago.  Have things gotten better? By SUSAN MERRELL TODAY, SUNDAY 24 MARCH [2013], is World Tuberculosis Day. In Australia, tuberculosis (TB) has largely been eradicated and is at a negligible incidence of six cases for every 100,000 of population. So, apart from humanitarian considerations for countries less fortunate, why should TB concern Australia? It’s said that one can walk from Australia to Papua New Guinea at low tide, and PNG has a staggeringly high incidence of 346 TB cases per 100,000, with numbers rising. (There has been a 42% increase in the last decade.) Furthermore, Continue reading Is TB Australia’s problem? Maybe not long from now.→

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