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Corruption is O’Neill’s Biggest Failure

On 14 Aug, 2018 By ACTNOW

It is six years since Prime Minister Peter O’Neill promised the country an Independent Commission Against Corruption. Yet that vision is no closer to being realised today than it was in 2012.

Peter O’Neill has totally failed to live up to his promises in both the 2012 and 2017 Alotau Accords that the government would establish an ICAC.

Will the 2018 APEC Summit Benefit PNG?

On 26 Mar, 2018 By ACTNOW

Commentary by By Aloysius Otmar on PNG Today

PM Peter O'Neill and Treasury Minister Charles Abel are saying PNG will benefit from the APEC 2018. Like many right thinking and concerned PNGeans, I doubt it very much. This event will only be a major gain for many politically-aligned individuals and not the country as a whole. Why do I need to boast about the APEC 2018 when;

PNG hosts APEC on illicit timber while allowing illegal logging

On 23 Feb, 2018 By ACTNOW

IMAGE: Map showing new logging roads and tree cover loss in 2017

SOURCE: Global Witness

Five Reasons We Should Protest Against APEC

On 16 Jan, 2017 By ACTNOW

In November 2015 Manila in the Philippines hosted the APEC Summit. Civil society mobilized to protest against the meeting. Below are they reasons they were so angered by APEC and what it represents. Here is PNG we should be similarly outraged as the same reasoning still applies...

Source: Telesur TV

Juffa queries funding

On 06 Nov, 2015 By ACTNOW

SABL forest clearance in Pomio, East New Britain. Image: Greenpeace

Source: The National

Northern Governor Gary Juffa has called on Forest Minister Douglas Tomuriesa to explain the findings of the special agriculture business lease (SABL) inquiry.

Papua New Guinea government hosts talks on forest protection while turning a blind eye to multi- million dollar illegal logging operations in its own backyard

On 26 Oct, 2015 By ACTNOW

Source: Global Witness

Media Release: ACT NOW! welcomes announcement of APEC forestry meeting in Port Moresby

On 27 Jul, 2015 By ACTNOW

Community advocacy group ACT NOW! welcomes the government’s announcement it will be hosting the Third APEC Meeting of Forestry Ministers in Port Moresby in October.

“This is the first APEC Ministers meeting to be held in Papua New Guinea and will be an excellent opportunity to remind the region of our government’s terrible record on the SABL land grab and illegal logging” says ACT NOW! Campaign Coordinator, Eddie Tanago.

Some Thoughts on Rethinking PNGs Foreign Policy on West Papua

On 30 Jan, 2015 By Elizabeth1

Picture: West Papua and New Guinea flag map

Source: Masalai Blog

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