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.