outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Friday, February 24, 2006

melanesian, polynesian and australian ways

Unfortunately Australia has become a country that thinks its shit doesn't stink. Those who have let that happen, the sportsmen, particularly the cricketers the politicians, some businessmen, advertisers, marketers ought to hang their heads in shame. It's a pity we can't export them but what other self respecting nation would take them? Mostly they are plastic Australians from the big cities and they would be no great loss.
I said the other day that the PNGns detested Australia and always barracked for NZ in sport or anyone else but Australia so it was interesting today to read this letter to the Editor The National in Port Moresby. "We do not need Fiji. Get their products off our shelves. They think Papua New Guineans are backward and cannibals while they live like Australians, New Zealanders and the Americans. What a shame."

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