When run by Australians, PNG made Australia a profit. Now under black leadership, not only is it dependent upon Australia, it is a failed state.

Makes you wonder why colonialism had such a bad name?

Not sure how PNG can be a "normally robust democracy" when there have been "flaws" in the system for 47 years; rolls not updated; ballot boxes destroyed; candidates killed.

We are having something primitive and lawless described to us here.

"Sadly, there is very little if anything Australia can do about it." Yes. So leave it alone. Get some suitable missiles pointed at it in preparation for when it falls to Communist China. It's a bit late to stick pins into an effigy of Gough Whitlam, who decided that PNG was good to go it alone.

Ha Ha, voting with a bullet at work. The positive side of voting with a gun barrel is the outcome for the voting class is closer to the realism of voting intentions.

Dan

Another Ha Ha.

Poor timid Lego:

*…Makes you wonder why colonialism had such a bad name?…*

Yes, and there were always handsome profits to be made from a flourishing slave trade in blacks and the other assortment of losers.

Dan.

This is what happens when a primitive stone age culture is given its head!

In danger of becoming a failed state? I think that there is no danger there given this is already the reality and shared with every cargo cult (failed state) in the Pacific?

I agree with ttbn and believe our best response to this, voting with a bullet, election is to get some nuclear missiles and aim them at PNG. Given, they soon will be another Chinese possession? That this is a very real possibility means, we absolutely must have a robust manufacturing sector!

Clearly, this is what we must have to support us in any future conflict!

[Can't happen and to us, is something the Ukraine used to believe!]

To ensure this is how we proceed, we need to transition away from hugely expensive coal and to 1 cent PKWH MSR thorium.

And not going to happen, given we will never be given permission by our real political masters! Our parliaments are mostly just theatres for hacks and not places of bold decisive vision. And places that progressively remove our rights! Not sure we'd be much worse off as the southern most state of imperial china?

Suggest we all learn Mandarin and kowtow butt licking?
Alan B.

Alan, can you PM me please.
David