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I am an anthropologist living in Papua New Guinea for the past 24 years.
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The Mining Advisory Council sends us a letter
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This is noncommittal, as you will note (and alittle snitty about my threat to embark on an international campaign---Done, by the way, MRA)---but it is very very good news in the end. We know that the MRA are meeting with... Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Water is a human right, even in PNG
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These images from Manila waterways go out to all the Madang landowners, soon to be resettled by the Pacific Marine Indstrial Zone, who were treated to a Philippines junket where they discovered that, despite the RD Tuna experience, big industrial... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Looking for Cutie-Pie in PNG
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Facebook brings together so many voices on a scrolling tabloid, all which serve to define the recipient as much as the sender. As a woman, mother, grandmother, friends send me their favourite articles about sexism and the insidiousness of youthful... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Women are not from Venus. Nor are men from Mars.
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And I am not Galileo. The nine men who attacked and brutally raped an American woman in Karkar on Friday were our brothers and sons and husbands. We raise these men, support them, make excuses for them. They are not... Continue reading
Posted Apr 21, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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MCC's permissable environmental impacts for Madang
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Someone has slipped me a precis on the Ramu Niko Environmental Impact Assessment amended to permit chromite export from the mine. And it is a real eye opener. It would seem that all the noise local NGOs made during their... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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The Karawari Community meeting in Namata: Saying NO to Mining
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On 1st April the overnight PMV to Hagen from Madang was filled with buai bags, enough to buy a car. We arrive 7 AM in Kagamuga, giving us enough time for a full breakfast at the Resort Lodge, before the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Couldnt have said it better ourselves: comments on the petition to save the Karawari Caves from Mining
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Some of the many things people added while signing the petition: www.gopetition.com/petitions/no-mining-the-karawari-caves.html image by Amy Toensig It is time to demonstrate true environmental stewardship governed by environmental ethics. Protecting the terrestrial ecosystem of the Karawari Region and its extremely sensitive... Continue reading
Posted Mar 29, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Dear Hon Byron Chan: letter from Survival International
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Posted Mar 27, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Ramu Niko announces the remake of Erin Brockovich
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Friday MCC Ramu Nico held a meeting with ‘stakeholders’ (all 50 of those who represent LOCs, and members of the Provincial administration---but no one, notably, from PNG PORTS) to announce----not request, mind you----an amendment to the ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT oftheir... Continue reading
Posted Mar 23, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Re-posting a call for: Emergency Assistance to Karawari Cave Arts Project
Update: We have just lost one source of funding for 2013 and are scrambling to make ends meet. Please read and circulate. Nancy Sullivan & Associates Ltd. HELP FOR KARAWARI CAVE ARTS UNDER THREAT PRESS RELEASE 15/3/13 Dear Friends: We... Continue reading
Posted Mar 15, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Open letter from Anton Lutz and the Kaiam community to Hon MP Byron Chan
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Dear Sirs, My name is Anton Lutz. I am a development worker with the Lutheran Church. We have been involved with the Andai people, also known as the Penale people, for close to twenty years now. My father, the late... Continue reading
Posted Mar 13, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Say No to Mining of the Karawari Caves
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http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/no-mining-the-karawari-caves.html Double click above to help us fill a petition to the PM and the Minister of Mining that will prevent RH and Pristine #18 from applying for a mineral exploration license in the Upper Karawari/Arafundi area of the Sepik.... Continue reading
Posted Mar 12, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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We implore you Hon MP Byron Chan
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Dear Sir: I work in the Karawari region of the East Sepik where, for the past 7 years, I have been leading a group of PNG ethnographers and archaeologists in recording and conserving the enormous cave art system that riddles... Continue reading
Posted Mar 7, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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RH descends upon the Meakambut
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An RH company called PRISTINE #18---is that a joke? Not funny at all. Rimbunan Hijau is partnered with a Western Australia company (their website is herehttp://www.siburan.com.au/) to 'explore' for gold in the Upper Karawari/Arafundi. Across the heart of the Karawari... Continue reading
Posted Mar 3, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Why would we pave paradise and put up a parking lot?
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Korean developers are planning to build their second large hotel along Kalibobo Drive. The first is already under construction at the corner of Regina Avenue, and now they have tabled designs to build something next to Coastwatcher's, at the far... Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Still not OK: Australian mining in Papua New Guinea
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The following is an excerpt from Matthew Benns' Dirty Money: The True Cost of Australia’s Mineral Boom, Sydney: Random House, 2011. Chapter 10. The three men who crouched in the undergrowth on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea were... Continue reading
Posted Feb 11, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Camping season in the Karawari
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A new year, a new Angoram MP (Ludwig Schultz---what a relief), and a new batch of kids ready for school. Every year the numbers grow, thankfully. Our aim is to make the Awim Elementary into a Primary school by adding... Continue reading
Posted Feb 9, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Sir Barry Holloway at UPNG: an assignment on development and bureaucracy
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The following insightful piece written by Sir Barry when he was a student at UPNG in the 1970s, shared by Kathy Wimp and John Ballard. John adds: 'The assignment for which the essay was written, designed primarily for new UPNG... Continue reading
Posted Jan 20, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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You were great in 'Lincoln' by the way
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http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/422894/january-15-2013/jared-diamond I generally get all heated up by a Diamond book---all the campaigning, the accolades, the use of other peoples' material to suggest he has spent fifty years studying Papua New Guineans...etc But this Stephen Colbert interview makes him look... Continue reading
Posted Jan 17, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Who listens to risk assessments?
In 2000, just before Sir Mekere Morauta signed the CMCA Agreement into a Bill, effecting the Ok Tedi Mine continuation until 2013, the World Bank sent him the following letter. It is a stern warning that mine closure must be... Continue reading
Posted Jan 14, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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We Remember Dr Tingay's Ok Tedi Report
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OTDF and PNGSDP have embarked on a campaign to resuscitate their image. Before we talk describe the years of benevolence, world class health care, sterling infrastructure and educational facilities bequeathed to the people of Western Province during the past decade…or... Continue reading
Posted Jan 14, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Who gets to fish in the Pacific?
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The EPA: A return to colonisation of the Pacific By Online Editor 4:48 pm GMT+12, 14/12/2012, Fiji By Dr. Transform Aqorau & Maurice Brownjohn, www.islandsbusiness.com One issue with negotiating multilateral agreements is that whilst negotiating as a bloc has its... Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Ok Tedi, BHP and the gift that keeps on giving
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I’m confused by this Post Courier caption and photo last week. Didn’t the Trust beneficiaries/landowners pay for the Fly Warrior themselves? Why is this touted as charity from OTDF? I suggest Middleton himself take the ship on his fly in-outs... Continue reading
Posted Jan 12, 2013 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Goodbye too soon, Anna Katuk
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The whole village of Awim turned out to lay Anna Katuk to rest last week. Barely 38 years old, mother of seven , exemplar of cheerful hard work and unflinching dedication to the community, Anna was the epitome of Penale... Continue reading
Posted Dec 12, 2012 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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Partners to the Nauru Agreement call out the Big Bullies of the Sea
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Sumkar MP Ken Fairweather is calling for a ban on all purse seiners in PNG. Isn't it time to pull the plug on this unsustainable fishing of our precious resource? BIG FISHING NATIONS FAIL TO CUT THEIR OVERFISHING, SAYS PNA... Continue reading
Posted Dec 7, 2012 at Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea
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