When does this stuff stop? If we're required to support this nation, then we need our administrators doling out the charity and entrepreneurial enterprise financing.

PNG has gas, gold and a mineral abundance it needs to develop. And develop that abundance, it must!

If that means civil war and cleansing the highlands of cannibals/anti-government/anti-development savages. So be it. People must move into the 21st century or be put down by it!
Alan B.

Jeff, I can only agree with everything you wrote.

And develop that abundance, it must!
Alan B,
And after that ?

After that it can build the hospitals, schools, social infrastructure and universities it needs. A mountain switchback railway connecting all the highlands. It needs to be self-reliant. Its developed mineral wealth could pay for all that and then some.

Imagine if every time we had a problem, we would hold the begging bowl out to old mother England.

It needs to formerly unite under one flag and one political philosophy. It needs to clean out the corrupt, the cargo cult mentality and move, lock stock and barrel into the 21st century.
Alan B.

Diffuse that time-bomb ! Just send them up the circuit diagram.

Indy. Ha, ha. Good one.
Alan B.

Other countries problems are not our problems

Other countries problems are not our problems
Armchair Critic,
Sadly, you're mistaken particularly if their problems were of Australian making !

https://www.9news.com.au/world/separatist-rebels-in-papua-say-kidnapped-nz-pilot-is-safe/a30897e0-b468-4652-a6a1-3f3fa78a8e96

Not in PNG but another time bomb very close

We don't have the money to fix our own problems,
Why should we waste a single dollar trying to fix other peoples problems when we need to fix our own?

As long as we have citizens on hospital waiting lists and living in tents and cars, every dollar spent on foreigners is a dollar that could've been spent helping our own people.

Nobody in their right mind would pay their neighbours living expenses first and then not pay their own and let their own family suffer, when they're burdened with rising debt.
- As a nation why is it any different?

Let the wealthy people go there and invest or give charity.
Don't take from our own people.

Rising government debt means the government spends more than it receives in tax which leads to inflation, which itself is another form of tax that we all must pay on every purchase, and ultimately equates to stealing the money from everyone's pockets to better the lives of foreigners.

If we have excess employment opportunities we could also offer them short term extendable working visas, but the money they earn won't go back into our own economy to circulate.