Announced on ABC News at lunchtime - PNG has received a $13 million Christmas present to build a new military hospital.

From China, of course.

I'm not even sure this guy cares about Christmas, or the spirit of giving, or even helping the people in the nations he claims to care about.

One week its about using sport to gain influence
The next week its about using religion to gain influence
Using ANZAC's, whinging about elections

At the end of the day the only thing he cares about is strategically trying to diminish Chinese expansion and influence.
He would be the kind of bloke to use religion at Christmas time for an ulterior motive. Shameful.

Here is another hand out with begging bowl extended. But if we are to give a gift, then let it be a gift that keeps on giving for decades and to generations yet unborn.

And here I refer to MSR thorium that can be mass produced here and sold to an energy starved world as well as given as aid that packs a punch and lights up many PNG lives and new industries.

And way better than spending/wasting good money on Australian based consultants. And in my view, corrupt practise.
Alan B.

Thorium is the most energy dense material in the world and perhaps the universe. It delivers everything fusion promised but has yet to deliver.

Apart from providing the world's cheapest energy it is also carbon free and walk away safe.

It's cleaner and cheaper than coal and because it can be rolled out as small modular plants. Ideally it could serve microgrids and save some of the transmission and distribution losses which together total around 75%.

And the mug consumer pays for those losses and lack of competition, which of itself allows price gouging and energy-based inflation.

If we ourselves developed these thorium reactors here and nothing prevents that than (puppet) politicians, who do little more than yap, yap as they sit on their hands.

And they're then the masters of our common destiny, our energy crippled economy and bankruptcies across this wide brown land.

It's not a case of can't but one of, die in a ditch first, won't.

No nay never, absolutely not! Why that would cripple the coal industry and put many coal miners out of work.

It never strikes their tiny minds that thorium and an electrified economy would more than double jobs in the metals mining industries.

They will sit on useless hands until projected punitive exponentially increasing carbon tariffs all but destroy our exports/export incomes! And we the people will pay the price!

If politicians ever had to wear the consequences of their decisions, instead of being forever quarantined from them. They would decide vastly differently.
Alan B.