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Belden Namah’s demise: The ‘push’ factor (or: lack of effective leadership)

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By PNG Echo In a press statement issued earlier this week, Belden Namah, leader of a rapidly diminishing parliamentary opposition, vehemently denied that the defection of his MPs had anything to do with defective leadership and everything to do with the lure of money.  (A considerable irony, given his admission of using K50 million in the 2012 elections to buy votes and loyalty – yes Mr. O’Neill, I’m with you: where did that come from?) Back in June of 2012 I wrote It’s a sad spectacle to see Namah on the campaign trail, trying to buy admiration.  Showing off his Continue reading Belden Namah’s demise: The ‘push’ factor (or: lack of effective leadership)→

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Manus Island: What did they expect?

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Much has been written on the plight of the asylum seekers on Manus Island but as dire as their plight is, there are other casualties of Australia’s callous politically motivated policy: the people of Manus Island. By PNG Echo To establish an Asylum Seeker Detention Centre with less than humane conditions on an island in a country with such profound problems that media commentators have referred to it, variably, as a ‘hell hole’ or a ‘failed state’…well, what was the Australian government thinking?  (Oh yes, the polls.)

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