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Army of well-paid advisers keep Pacific poor : Comments
By Helen Hughes, published 24/2/2010Taxpayers should be concerned that egregiously high salaries are paid to aid-funded advisers in the Pacific region.
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Their politics is a joke, I remember Ms Abija on the hustings near Port Moresby, promising everyone who voted for her a fridge. It now has come down to rampant corruption.
I feel so sorry for the people I grew up with now deprived of a caring and benevelent country like Australia who was supplying services and the basis of civilisation. Roads, law and order, electricity, schools and employment.
I don't know what partof PNG you grew up in Examinator, you must have been too young or too insulated to realise the good the Australians did. The expats who came and went had no intention of exploiting anyone and I resent the implication you make.
Do you really think they were not treated fairly? What an incredibly immature and pompus attitude to people who went there to nation build and were undermined by fools like Gough Whitlam.
Did you catch that in my earlier post - that should have been the giveaway that it was obvious it was administered by Australia, but in your haste to chide you missed it, typical of your style.
Here it is again, read carefully this time "Whitlam did a whistle stop tour of PNG before he was elected and became an instant expert, and promised immediate independence if elected."
"immediate independence", I'll translate for you, we were governing!
Yes they need highly paid advisers all over the pacific for the reason they are not capable of running their own affairs because of cultural primitiveness - a sad state, but as we all knew in PNG, it would come to this because they were not ready for independence in a modern, connected world.