Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update: Discussing Geopolitical and Military Activity in the Pacific
The Pacific is quietly becoming one of the most militarised regions on earth. Ben Morgan tracks the moves, the risks and the fault lines.
Papua New Guinea
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Two countries, two kidnappings – Port Moresby shows Jakarta how it’s done with 3 PNG hostages freed
Two countries. A common border. Two hostage crises. But the responses of both Asia-Pacific nations have been like chalk and cheese.
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EMTV news team walk out in protest over suspension of their chief editor
The national news team of Papua New Guinea’s major television channel, EMTV, has walked out in protest over a decision earlier this month to suspend head of news Sincha Dimara for 21 days without pay for alleged insubordination. This is the third ousting of a news manager in five years at EMTV with PNG facing a critical national election in June.
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Paga Hill iconic human rights documentary banned from PNG festival
Joe Moses: “It is shameful that [the PNG] government continues to limit free speech and put such pressure on our country’s only annual arts and human rights event. How does this make us look to the world leaders who will be coming here for the APEC meeting in November?”
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Former military chief warns PNG soldiers could be ‘outgunned’ in Mendi strife
Former Brigadier-General Jerry Singirok, a former commander of the PNG Defence Force has described Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s government response to last week’s Mendi riots as a “premature state of emergency” and a “cheap, reckless and knee-jerk option”.