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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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The journalist, the Human Rights’ Commissioner, the Prime Minister and the abuses.

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By PNG Echo It is, by now, well known that, last weekend, this journalist was refused entry into Papua New Guinea (PNG) by order of the Prime Minister. It was heavy handed, provocative and ultimately an exercise in futility. May I remind the Prime Minister that there have been very successful revolutions enacted remotely – the Ayotollah Khomeini effected the Iranian revolution from enforced exile in Paris, for instance.   In PNG, political revolution is not called for – the government was democratically elected and ought to be free to do its job. It’s the fact that this government is Continue reading The journalist, the Human Rights’ Commissioner, the Prime Minister and the abuses.→

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