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It’s vote-of-no-confidence time again.

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By PNG Echo. Papua New Guinea is, once again, finding itself looking through one of those windows of opportunity whereby the government can be defeated and removed on the floor of parliament by a vote of no confidence. This window is smaller this year because of legislation that increased the grace period from 18 to 30 months. It will be back to normal next year, the legislation having been deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. But why is it expected that because it could happen that it should? What’s more, why do people expect an attempted vote of no confidence Continue reading It’s vote-of-no-confidence time again.→

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West Papua: Australia’s backyard ‘genocide’ continues

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By Hilda Wayne In a village in West Papua, a young Benny Wenda watched as Indonesian military forced his Melanesian aunties to wash themselves by the river ‘ to clean themselves up’ before they were raped. One of Benny’s aunts had her baby ripped from her arms and thrown to the ground before she, the mother, was also raped. Both baby and mother sustained fatal injuries. They died. Severe internal injuries were what eventually killed the West Papuan father of Wiwince Pigome, sustained many years before at the hands of the Indonesian military. Wiwince’s family were from Wamena and her Continue reading West Papua: Australia’s backyard ‘genocide’ continues→

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