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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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Anti-corruption? I don’t think so

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By PNG Echo While corruption is a problem in PNG, the anti-corruption movements it has spawned are proving to be an even greater one. The recent launching of a Facebook site, PNG Anti-Corruption Movement for Change (PNGACMC) gave its founders pause for thought (at least it should have) as they provided a forum for black hatred expressed in the form of threats of extreme sexual violence and torture by one contributor against another. The threats were so horrific and disgustingly graphic that one person wrote it was …the worse thing she had ever read on Facebook. The founders and leaders Continue reading Anti-corruption? I don’t think so→

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