John Numapo (Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Special Purpose Agriculture and Business Leases) has said in an interview with Radio Australia that the Final Commission of Inquiry report is almost ready to be released. The report with the recommendations will be handed to whoever is the Prime Minister after the current elections he says.

In the meantime, we are publishing all the transcripts from the Commission hearings.

John Numapo (Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Special Purpose Agriculture and Business Leases) has said in an interview with Radio Australia that the Final Commission of Inquiry report is almost ready to be released. The report with the recommendations will be handed to whoever is the Prime Minister after the current elections, he says.

John Numapo (Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Special Purpose Agriculture and Business Leases) has siad in an interview with Radio Australia that the Final Commission of Inquiry report is almost ready to be released. The report with the recommendations will be handed to whoever is the Prime Minister after the current elections. 

By Simon Eroro and Melissa Martin

via Radio Australia

Tens of thousands of people in Papua New Guinea's Western Province are having their food security undermined by illegal fishing, making recovery from recent floods more difficult.

By ELLEN TIAMU

THE country is expected to expe­rien­ce indefinite power outages when more than 2,000 PNG Power Ltd staff stage a protest starting today.
It could extend past the start of voting in the general election on Saturday.
Highlands union representative Cle­ment Ravini said yesterday in Lae:

“The sit-down protest will go on for as long as it takes to get the attention of the (Public Enterprises) minister (Sir Mekere Morauta).”

Partners to Act Now's Pacific 20,000 Signatures Initiative Against Experimental SeaBed Mining are in Rio de Janeiro attending various events to raise the profile of the initiative. Maureen Penjueli, Coordinator of Pacific Network on Globalization (PNG) from Fiji, talked at Major Groups press briefing on 13 June at Rio+20.

Tonga became a member of the WTO in 2005 under what has been described as "arguably the worst terms ever offered to any country" - requiring the Pacific Island nation to make wide ranging and binding commitments on trade liberalisation.

Produced by the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG)

The Pacific Network on Globilization has launched a new T-shirt to boost the campaign against experimental seabed mining in the Pacific.

Lice Cokanasiga models the new T-shirt. 

It starts its journey at a place thousands of walks, sleeps and an ocean away called Melbourne. Carefully it gets printed and cut. A rectangular piece of plastic, coloured depictions of different digitalized, nationalised objects on one side, on the flip side you see either the Waigani *haus tambaran or the majestic bird of paradise. You can’t eat it, drink it, nurture it, decorate yourself with it or use it as an ornament on yourself nor your home.