Indi, when it comes to the funnies you just can't cut it. I think you could do with 2 years "training" in your very own Gomer Pyle Memorial Boot Camp digging ditches while you swagger about saying "Golly Sargent Carter I don't know s#$t!"

Thank you Paul, you prove my point completely.

If the damn fools interfering busybodies had not "educated" the poor locals in the highlands or the islands they would not want cash crops. They had no need of cash crops, no need for trucks or busybodies in 4WDs interfering in their existence.

What a pity some fool built the 4WD track in there, when a district officer had to walk in, fools like you stayed in Moresby doing little damage.

I'll bet the money from those fool cash crops was being spent on imported bully beef & rice, rather than their own healthy diet.

You get worse don't you. Shorts for god sake. Yes a must have after thousands of years of taupe & grass skirts. And sandals. They have been growing some of the best leather on earth on the soles of their feet for just as long, but some clown talks them into cash crops so they can buy sandals. Did you want them to wear socks with those by any chance?

Still I suppose it was essential they get chocolate, it would be a pity not to destroy the kids teeth while you're there, as if betel nut is not bad enough.

You really do prove that foreign aid is bad news for the recipients, & when fools like you get involved with simple folk, nothing but harm results.

Foxy by defending Paul & his faux experiences you're making yourself just as bad. Paul is most likely one of those 17 year old radical students who still has yet to grow hair in certain places & learn about the differences between the sexes & teachers.

Indi, your too much, up there in the Deep, Deep North spending your days listing to recordings of "The Diatribes of Old Joh" on 78's, watching reruns of "Combat" thinking you are Sergeant "Chip" Saunders and dreaming of the glory days when the first conscripts arrive for training at your Gomer Pyle Memorial Boot Camp, all awhile sucking on another can of XXXX. Indi that stuff will rot your brain, but in your case I think you are perfectly safe.
Hasbeen by name hasbean by nature. I know Great Grandpa Hasbeen stopped the clock on Xmas Day 1887 and all the Hasbeen clan have been locked in a 19th century time warp every since. Sorry Hasbeen. your talking about the wrong island. I see you as a Tarzan figure to the Indigenous people, a modern day Johnny Weissmuller.
If you had your way you would lock the "simple folk" of the Pacific as you like to call them, into your time warp, but all along exploiting them and their land to the hilt for your profit. Contrary to your way of thinking life for many is not all grass skirts and hula dancing. In the Islands there are real issues and real problems with health and education etc. Regardless of your 19th century way of thinking its a modern world and nothing will wind back the clock to pr-colonial days. Like Australia, Fiji and the other nations of the Pacific including New Guinea realise they have to fit into this 21st century world, and rather than rejecting help, people welcome our assistance as equal partners, not as masters.
If as you advocate Australia withdraws aid from the Pacific I can assure you China is ready willing and able to step in and fill the vacuum created.
"What a pity some fool built the 4WD track" maybe it was Grandpa Hasbeen using Coolie labour to get to "his" plantation, I don't know but its there and if Australian money don't improve it one day then Chinese money will.

Paul1405,
You're exposing yourself as an even bigger git thatn we first thought you were. As for your remark on Hasbeen well, as he said it before here, better a hasbeen than a never was. You're exposing yourself as a never was & you're only a teenager.

As forChina is ready willing and able to step in and fill the vacuum created. China is merely exploiting the vacuum that is in our experts from the left. I have seen what do-gooder mentality has done to villagers in remote country, it destroyed them & people like you who have never once stood up & offered a solution can't do better than childish ridicule. I'm sure once you hit your late 20's you'll suddenly realise the silliness of your indoctrinated do-gooder mentality. I think it may be too late for the Marylins & Suseonlines' but you could still have a chance.

Wow Paul, you sure must have spent a lot of time watching bad television.

Still better than the result you get meditating on your navel, & becoming a legend in your own lunchtime.

Do tell me one thing, what colour sucks do you wear with your designer sandals?