Nation building and the necessity of historical national symbols
By PNG Echo. Who gave Speaker of the Papua New Guinean Parliament, Theo Zurenuoc, the right to shape Papua New Guinea after an image that he chooses? Who gave him the right to arbitrarily reinterpret the constitution and what the founding father’s meant – and to decide where they’d erred? I’m speaking, specifically, of the tearing down of traditional artefacts originally commissioned for the Haus Tambaran to be replaced by others that the Speaker finds more to his taste, sensibilities and his personal interpretation of the Christian doctrine.
