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Can the churches save our closest neighbour from a total COVID catastrophe? : Comments

By Jeffrey Wall, published 15/10/2021

Nothing better illustrates this than the reality that just over 200,000 people out of an adult population of six million has received one vaccination - with probably no more than 50,000 fully vaccinated.

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All your article does for me, Jeffery Wall, is to add weight to my contention that as far as some races are concerned, white colonialism and white paternalism was the best thing that ever happened to them. If PNG was still a colony of Australia, run by white people, it would be in much better shape than it is now. "Independence" just meant dependence.

There was a time when PNG was a colony of Australia and it was well run and it even made a profit. Today, whatever profit gets made in PNG goes into the pockets of their elites while we foot the bill for everybody else to the tune of half a billion dollars every year.

Here's a thought. If we now think that colonialism and paternalism was just awful, and if we are sick and tired of paying out to that financial black hole called PNG, why don't we just encourage the Indonesians to take the whole bloody place over?

We could ask them to take over the 'aboriginal" areas of NT as well, which would save us another $10 billion a year too. The Indos might even be able to stop the aborigines from drinking alcohol and make them take their kids to school.
Posted by LEGO, Thursday, 4 November 2021 4:26:41 AM
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