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Bougainville and Belden Namah: Who profits from Panguna?

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Here, I am reproducing an article that was published earlier this year.  What has happened since?  Does anyone know? Original by Susan Merrell and Chris Baria As this article goes to print [last May] there is a constitutional crisis being faced by Autonomous Bougainville Government after it has allegedly been entertaining a proposal from a small mining developer from Western Australia – ‘Caballus’. According to my information: Caballus, believed to be headed by Western Australian businessman, Jeffrey McGlinn, arrived in Buka with pre-written amendments to the Bougainville Mining Act that apparently will do away with landowners’ rights to their mineral Continue reading Bougainville and Belden Namah: Who profits from Panguna?→

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Power, position and pragmatism – the judiciary vs the executive in PNG

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By PNG Echo Cast your minds back to 2011/2012 – a significant time in the annals of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) political history It was a time when a defiant executive government squared up to a rampant judiciary in a struggle for supremacy that, arguably, was ultimately won by the executive government (who retained power) However, during the struggle, the judiciary (embodied by the Chief Justice, Sir Salamo Injia) never retreated and many a lesson about the effective wielding of power was learnt by the government players, especially in that which concerns the power, actual and assumed, of the Chief Continue reading Power, position and pragmatism – the judiciary vs the executive in PNG→

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