outback to jungle

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

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Reply to "I make no comment"

The "I make no comment" article was from a European paper or journal as I understand and to balance it I enclose this letter from today's Post Courier:
"Aust claims absurd
AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard’s assertion that PNG is in danger of failing and his pursuits to build up the Australian Defence Force to contain what he contends are emerging security risks in the South Pacific region with specific connotations on PNG, is totally absurd. Like all other patriotic Papua New Guineans who love our country despite how “outsiders and the infidels” view us in every context, I reject those “political hallucinations” that our critics from the outside and the “traitors” from within harbour in their distorted minds. They take every opportunity to “suppress our ideas” and “dethrone” our sovereignty so that they can justify their agendas for their own convenience. In view of the absurdities that the “foreign infidels” sensationalise, and in support of our patriotic Prime Minister Michael Somare, I call on Australia Prime Minister John Howard to stop misleading the tax paying public of Australia but to tell them the truth about his own policy miscalculations and deficiencies. — Reuben Elijah Lae"

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