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Who’s sorry now? Appointment of new Chief Justice

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It makes no sense as to why the decision of who would be the new Chief Justice (CJ) hadn’t been well and truly decided before 31 October (2018) when Sir Salamo’s tenure ran out, does it? I mean they’ve been aware of that date for the past 10 years; it hardly came as a surprise, did it? So why are they appointing the former Deputy Chief Justice to the position in an ‘Acting’ capacity? Is the answer ‘leverage’? Learning by example  Cast your minds back to the situation of the Papua New Guinean parliament on 30 May, 2012. It was Continue reading Who’s sorry now? Appointment of new Chief Justice→

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Democracy, custom and the Melanesian Way.

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By Susan Merrell This is an article I wrote almost three years ago.  Inspired by a conversation with a learned PNGean, I am republishing – the thesis has not aged although the cast of characters has. Is there a democratic Papua New Guinean nation – or is it merely an arbitrary state built on a shaky, crumbling foundation of disparate traditional customs and the ‘Melanesian Way’? Has the system of government become a hybrid of concepts that fail to work on any level – a bastardization of both democracy and custom? Bernard Narokobi in his book ‘The Melanesian Way’ refused Continue reading Democracy, custom and the Melanesian Way.→

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