Bazz,

China's got the money and where the money is PNG will go.

I saw this coming and as you all now know: I TOLD YOU SO.

Australia should ask the PNG Army to establish a joint base on Daru. Bazz,
Australian Navy & Customs vessels are constantly in the area, mere kilometres away.
What they do is anyone's guess whilst the PNG dinghies buzz around them.
Joining the Armed Forces & the reserves is very popular among the islanders. Their mollycoddled cousins in the South could definitely learn about discipline, responsibility & respect from them !

I TOLD YOU SO.
Mr Opinion,
But, you still support the Left rather than Conservatism !

individual,

I do not support any political faction.

But I would like to see a world in which there is no place for low-life scumbags.

This is a serious business. Australia MUST use its influence in PNG to stop it. PNG should realise it wont mean jobs for PNG because like else where they will employ Chinese contractors who employ Chinese people. That way the money doesn't leave China!
Once there PNG wont be able to stop them building a base like those in the SCS.

INDEPENDANT Al,
45 years is too many years of chances we missed to remedy the situation. Too late now. The best we can hope for is that we never get a repeat of 1975 when the decisions were made that haunt us now ! Australia's been handing $1.2 Million/day to PNG since then & now we worry about them inviting China in exchange for more money ? Isn't that sufficient proof that it'd become unaffordable for Australia to vie for the affection for want of a better description of PNG ?