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Champion of Aborigines Gummi Fridriksson 'evicts' PNG's Poor

The following article via The Australian is the most recent development in the Paga Hill saga (The Forced Eviction at Paga Hill - A Brief History of Portion 1597 Granville)

 

"A Champion of indigenous communities in Australia has been accused of human rights abuses in Papua New Guinea after settlers' homes were bulldozed to make way for a multi-million-dollar hotel and marina development.

Gummi Fridriksson, who is based in Cairns in northern Queensland, is secretary of the PNG-registered Paga Hill Development Company, which was handed a lucrative commercial lease over a 14ha piece of land at Paga Hill overlooking the harbour in central Port Moresby."