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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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How will they know? The dilemma of foreign affairs journalism

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By PNG Echo She had been hacked with a machete – opened up from her sternum to her pelvis. Her intestines were exposed and spilling out from her cut abdomen. She’d been disemboweled. The graphic pictures that appeared on Facebook came with the explanation that this was done to her, by her husband, in retaliation for adultery. Were it in the Middle East, we’d shake our heads and maybe say: “It’s typical of those radical Muslims with their Sharia Law and their lack of respect for women,” wouldn’t we?” Well it wasn’t. This occurred in a stridently Christian country from Continue reading How will they know? The dilemma of foreign affairs journalism→

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