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Inspirational and motivational. Thank you for sharing the piece of your life journey to encourage the youngers ones to prosper in life and accomplish their dreams. Proud of your brother. For PNG and Jiwaka #Leadership_Wahh

Having just returned from Cairns, I was very pleased to learn that it is free from dengue for the first time in many decades. Not "expanding" as claimed in this article. This has been due to a program surely also relevant to these problems in Africa, involving Wolbachia mosquitoes. As noted by the World Mosquito Progam - https://www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/en/news-stories/stories/far-north-queensland-essentially-dengue-free#:~:text=A%20new%20scientific%20paper%20has,locations%20in%20northern%20Queensland%2C%20Australia. "This means that Far North Queensland is essentially dengue-free for the first time in well over 100 years, according to Dr Richard Gair, Director and Public Health Physician, Tropical Public Health Services Cairns. Short-term releases of Wolbachia mosquitoes were undertaken up to 8 years ago in some communities, and monitoring in these areas has shown that Wolbachia has since remained in the local mosquitoes with no further releases required. Importantly, there has been reduced dengue transmission in these areas, with a 93 per cent reduction in reported dengue cases. This follows the 5-year success of the World Mosquito Program method in the city of Townsville. World Mosquito Program Director and Monash University Professor Scott O’Neill is thrilled with the result. “We’ve seen almost the complete collapse of locally acquired dengue in previously high-risk transmission areas in cities and communities across Australia’s far north, despite imported dengue cases continuing to rise. In fact, local dengue transmission has essentially disappeared from Cairns for the first time since the early 1980s.” Local Wolbachia-mosquito populations were established using a variety of methods, including direct involvement of school children, householders, community groups and businesses, who assisted with growing and releasing Wolbachia mosquitoes. "

Thank you brother for sharing your experience and challenges that you overcome, it also motivate me to be, and also goes to others too. I hope our good Lord have future plan for you 👍🏼🙏🏼.

Seems like the blog focuses on the expatriates who became Ministers. Did Harry and Peter Humphrey holds Ministerial Portfolios during their terms in Parliament?

Might be the number of months in the table refers to duration MPs served specifically as a Foreign Minister. In PNG, MPs' ministerial portfolios do change often and quickly. By the end of a parliament, a single MP can serve more than one ministerial portfolio. And this might be the case here resulting in MPs doing short stints, 15 months, 4 months, 12 months, as Foreign Minister.

The table of "months in parliament, 1972-2022" is clearly inaccurate. For example, how did Bruce Jephcott have 15 months in the 2nd parliament, Denis Young have 4 months in the 4th parliament and Ken Fairweather have just 12 months in the 8th parliament? There are other similar short stints.

No, but it should be. So far of the countries eligible to send workers to Australia under the PALM scheme, only Timor-Leste is eligible to send workers to South Korea.

Hi Victor, When Labor first announced the PEV, it said that the quotas would be allocated proportional to population. Since coming to government, it has put out a statement with a slightly more complex allocation formulae but along similar lines - see <a href="https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/pev-palm-faq.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/pev-palm-faq.pdf</a>. You are arguing that economic status should also be taken into account. In fact, the larger Pacific/TL countries are also the poorer (PNG, TL, SI) so this would reinforce the original intent to distribute them on the basis of population.

Is Papua New Guinea eligible to send it laboure to Korea

Hi, thanks for your comment. The answer is in the sixth paragraph. The allegations on the ABC program cast doubt on the integrity of the bidding process that led to the awarding of the PNG ports operator contract to ICTSI. One of the ports that ICTSI now operates in PNG is the Lae port. And the Lae port upgrade is, I understand, is the biggest component of the AIFFP PNG Ports investment. So, my concern is around what will happen to the Australian-funded upgrade of Lae port once it is complete. Will the upgraded port be operated by ICTSI? Will there be another bid? Will it depend on the outcome of the inquiry? Hope this clarifies.

Hi, in this article the fact check does not implicate AIFFP with the case of corruption with PNG Ports. The AIFFP was established on 1 July 2019, somewhat 2 years after the contract was signed with PNG Ports in 2017 (ref. 2). Clearly cannot see the nexus between the two. Please explain as I see no connection. Thank you Stephen. The following are excerpts: Ref. 1 'The AIFFP was announced by former Prime Minister Morrison in November 2018 and became operational on 1 July 2019', (ref. https://www.aiffp.gov.au/about) ref. 2 'The ABC’s Background briefing and the OCCRP revealed questionable payments involving then top PNG Ports officials Fego Kiniafa and Stanley Alphonse around the time a major contract was awarded to a multinational ports operator, ICTSI in 2017' (ref. https://islandsbusiness.com/news-break/marape-orders-corruption-watchdog-to-investigate-png-ports/)

I, Mr. Martin Itamai, from Bougainville, and I am interested to know more about the concept of carbon market in Papua New Guinea.