Archive for the 'Papua New Guinea' Category

Update: Somare’s Soles 2

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Aussie coppers are going back into Papua New Guinea after the Enhanced Cooperation Program was resuscitated today. Apparently there will be no uniformed or plainclothes police on the beat, as there were before the Plan fell over. Federales will be put into key posts, and some more civvys are going over too. But no firefights […]

Update: Somare’s Soles

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

In the past few weeks there’s been some interesting developments on the ’shoe incident’ - the diplomatic quibble that’s acting as a proxy war for tensions between Australia and Papua New Guinea over the forms of aid to PNG.

On Tuesday, Sir Michael Somare, the PNGuinean PM, made a speech to his Parliament saying that he […]

“Downer We Will Remove More Than Your Shoes”

Friday, April 8th, 2005

The Papua New Guinean government today said that it would suspend its receipt of Australian aid to the country until it receives an apology for an embarrassing diplomatic mistake.

Remember it? Late last month, their Prime Minister, Sir Michael Somare, was made to undergo “lengthy security searches at Brisbane on his way to […]