corruption

Papua New Guinea is a tinderbox

On 16 Dec, 2011 By rait man With 1 Comments

By Doug Hendrie

The violence in PNG this week is the eruption of long simmering tensions, says Martyn Namorong. Doug Hendrie talks to the fearless political blogger who sells betel nut by day and tackles the country's corrupt ruling classes by night.

Martyn Namorong is angry.

We are being informed but we are not acting on the information

On 09 Dec, 2011 By Tim With 1 Comments

By Scott Waide

Blind faith in a failed political system

On 05 Dec, 2011 By rait man

For 36 years this political system has not solved your problems yet somehow the sheeple continue to have blind faith in a failed system. It’s produced the Bougainville crisis, the World’s third largest Environmental Disaster at Fly River, 5.2 million hectares of land stolen, human rights abuses and police brutality, massive theft of public monies, an education system that fails to produce nation builders, a health system that doesn’t work and etc...

This is where we are Papua New Guinea

On 30 Nov, 2011 By rait man

By Gary Juffa*

Our simple folk ask for little - a road, a bridge perhaps, a school and a hospital. They fend for themselves as they have done for the last 50,000 years.

Police still part of the problem of violence against women in PNG

On 28 Nov, 2011 By Effrey

Police rapes girl

A GRADE six student in Madang was allegedly raped by a policeman last Thursday, but despite complaints laid by the girl’s relatives, the suspect is still out and free without being charged or detained.

Father and uncle of the girl yesterday expressed their disappointment to this paper saying despite an official complaint being lodged last Friday, police in Madang were yet to detain the policeman concerned.

The theft and waste of public money in Papua New Guinea's Public Enterprises

On 25 Nov, 2011 By rait man

Mekere Morauta, Minister for Public Enterprises

When the O’Neill-Namah Government took over from the Somare regime in early August, I was given the task of sorting out the mess which had been created among all of the state owned enterprises by the former Minister for Public Enterprises, the (currently suspended) Member for Angoram, Arthur Somare.

Transparency International 'part of the corruption problem'

On 18 Nov, 2011 By rait man

From the PNG Exposed blog

Transparency International, which claims to be global watchdog on corruption, is in fact part of the corruption problem. TI misdirects attention away from many of the causes, beneficiaries and potential solutions to the theft of public monies.

TI labels countries like Papua New Guinea (currently ranked 154 out of 178 countries) as among the most corrupt while countries like Australia (currently ranked 8th) are lauded as among the least corrupt.

But scratch beneath the surface and what do we find?

Oxford University gives cautious approval for the draft Sovereign Wealth Fund law

On 17 Nov, 2011 By rait man

Dr Ashby Monk from the University of Oxford and co-director of the Oxford SWF Project has given a cautious welcome to Papua New Guinea's draft Sovereign Wealth Fund law (which can be downloaded below - 6.4mb).

Ashby Monk

Papua New Guinea has finally published a draft law for its new sovereign fund: “The Organic Law on the Sovereign Wealth Fund“. Here are some of the key points to take away:

Govt must set up ICAC to fight graft

On 10 Oct, 2011 By rait man

By Jerry Tandawai

IF the government is really serious about combating corruption at all levels, then an Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) must be set up immediately. 

Setting up the ICAC has been mooted many times before in various public forums but nothing substantive has resulted.  The main reason for inaction is that successive governments always lacked the political will to stamp out corruption. 

Foreign aid - is it worth it?

On 04 Oct, 2011 By rait man With 1 Comments

By Tim Anderson

Aid worldwide runs at more than $120 billion per year (World Bank 2011a), yet there is very little correlation between this expenditure and the often stated goal of poverty reduction. The failures of aid are legion. Yet this ‘development assistance’ has become a massive and semi- permanent global industry which in western countries is often erroneously equated with ‘development’. Nothing could be further from the truth. Aid programs, despite the stated good intentions, certainly deserve some critical scrutiny.

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