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From Robin Davies on Dame Carol Kidu on PNG Women in the 21st Century
Hi Richard -- Apologies and in fact I see this photo doesn't even have a generic credit for some reason. I'm not sure why (this post is fairly old and predates current personnel and processes) but we'll be in touch via email prior to adding the credit.
From Richard Dellman on Dame Carol Kidu on PNG Women in the 21st Century
you didn't credit the photographer - Richard Dellman
From Island To Visit on Pacific Islands Forum: the first casualty of a changing culture of dialogue
Insightful read! The shift to online only discussions impacts cultural norms and consensus building in so many subtle ways. Thought provoking reflection on dialogue, and now adding it to my list of topics worth deeper exploration!
From Kate Burrell on The end of AYAD: youth ambassador program retired
As a former AYAD I worked at the grassroots with another Oxfam in Cambodia.
Not knowing or excusing the impressions that you made of other AYADs, in a great range of countries, every single AYAD in my cohort exhibited none of the unfortunate characteristics that you obviously observed.
It was the chance of a life time and all of my cohort took their year and frequently many more years to have accomplished with local villagers and specific governmental representatives a level of assistance, however incremental, to be transformed into something sustainable.
From Peter Drua on PNG’s currency: it’s time to de-dollarise the kina
Interesting read. I hope BPNG will consider such alternative options so that PNG Kina is not tight to a single point of failure.
How about also tying Kina to our gold and oil volumes?
From Cesaltino madeira de Deus on Pacific Engagement Visa Factsheet 2025
I'd appreciate help to apply for this visa to live and work in Australia.
From Angela Wai on Pacific Engagement Visa Factsheet 2025
I'm really interested on this PEV ballot.
Please help me with more information.
From BARRY BAU on The 2025 Pacific Engagement Visa is open — how did it go in 2024?
Can a person with ATO Debt still apply for PEV?
From Stephen Charteris on The true value of law and order in Papua New Guinea
Thank you Michael for the back story on the group. I admire your fortitude. Yes their friendship comes shining through. There are no brigands in that group. I worked years ago in agriculture extension between Mendi and Tari. My recollection of the people of the Huli valley is one of a great warmth and sense of humour. I always felt welcome in their "haus lains." Like you I had my moments but that was in the Nebilyer Valley and around Mendi, never Tari.
Regarding the impact of inequality. Exactly. To assume that a young demographic, (by some estimates 60 percent are 25 years or less) will be fine with a life of subsistence farming, fishing and gathering is beyond naive. A lack of essential services combined with an absence of opportunity has angered rural populations who have now waited two generations for promises to materialise. In my view, given the cultural paradigm and ill advised top down development trajectory of the past 3-4 decades they were always at risk of this happening . Indeed the current model of development in the absence of community empowerment has proven to be part of the problem.
On an occasion when returning from Nipa to Mendi I drove past a newly painted coffin mounted on poles by the side of the road. Knowing what that mean't I was pondering the ongoing tribal conflict when a small boy ran out to see my passing vehicle. In that moment I wondered how things might be for him when he reached twenty-five. We know the answer now.
Finding viable and inclusive pathways forward, especially for the young demographic is a challenge that must be met if PNG is to remain viable. In my view there is a need to rethink closely held theories of change and get behind a more bottom up people first agenda. We have the tools to do that. I agree that the nation's greatest resource has for too long been overlooked. The hope and good will so apparent in the post independence years has evaporated and time is running out.
From Michael Main on The true value of law and order in Papua New Guinea
That photo was taken a while ago but it was a day after a couple of those guys had stepped in to save my life at considerable risk to themselves. Extremely decent blokes in my view. That location is in the foothills of Mt Sisa between Mt Sisa and Komo. I would say that rather than reverting to old ways things have moved towards an unprecedented time of extreme inequality that is combined with guns and a decline in services, including law and order services. Inequality destroys the social fabric of any country and in PNG it is extreme. Resource economies do not work when profits are sent offshore and cash is allowed to distort the national economy and breed corruption. This development paradigm has collapsed.
From Nelly Grace Stafford on Pacific Engagement Visa in PNG: progress and challenges