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January 25, 2024
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Academic Andrew Anton Mako says the Papua New Guinea’s systemic dysfunction was plain to see in the rioting and looting throughout the country’s main cities two weeks ago. That rioting was sparked by a protest by police after unannounced deductions from their wages. It led to a riot ... <a title="Long term plan needed for underlying PNG problems, says academic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/25/long-term-plan-needed-for-underlying-png-problems-says-academic/" aria-label="Read more about Long term plan needed for underlying PNG problems, says academic">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Levo in Port Moresby In all of the meandering years in the life of Papua New Guinea, 2021, which ended on Friday has to be it. The colours were there, the love and laughter were there, the sadness, emotions, losses, highs and lows, the bleakness of our long-suffering population and blackness of ... <a title="The bleak and black covid year that shook Papua New Guinea to the core" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/the-bleak-and-black-covid-year-that-shook-papua-new-guinea-to-the-core/" aria-label="Read more about The bleak and black covid year that shook Papua New Guinea to the core">Read more</a>
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December 27, 2020
OBITUARY: By Scott Waide in Lae For many Papua New Guineans, Sir Mekere Morauta will be remembered as the straight shooting politician and the reformist Prime Minister, whose work came to be appreciated more than a decade later. Up until the 1990s, Mekere Morauta’s public life was rather low key. He thrived behind the scenes, ... <a title="Sir Mekere, PNG’s straight shooting and reformist prime minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/27/sir-mekere-pngs-straight-shooting-and-reformist-prime-minister/" aria-label="Read more about Sir Mekere, PNG’s straight shooting and reformist prime minister">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2019
Former Papua New Guinea prime minister Sir Mekere Morauta has strongly criticised “foreign governments and organisations”, singling out Australia, for their assessments of the 2017 PNG national election. Sir Mekere accused them of “whitewashing the rigging and corruption associated with it”. by the Australian National University and Transparency International. Image: Screenshot/PMC “The ANU report and ... <a title="Former PM Morauta accuses Australia of ‘whitewashing’ PNG poll rigging" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/01/former-pm-morauta-accuses-australia-of-whitewashing-png-poll-rigging/" aria-label="Read more about Former PM Morauta accuses Australia of ‘whitewashing’ PNG poll rigging">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2018
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces a K22 million (NZ$10 million) aid project to help polio vaccination for Papua New Guineans at the St John Ambulance Operations Centre in Port Moresby. Video: EMTV News Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A former prime minister has accused Papua New Guinea’s current leader Peter O’Neill of exposing the country ... <a title="Former PM Sir Mekere blasts ‘lavish staging’ and ‘ridicule’ of APEC" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/20/former-pm-sir-mekere-blasts-lavish-staging-and-ridicule-of-apec/" aria-label="Read more about Former PM Sir Mekere blasts ‘lavish staging’ and ‘ridicule’ of APEC">Read more</a>
