Open AccessPNG: Under the spell
Author(s) -
Helen Vatsikopoulos
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v2i1.533
Subject(s) - spell , new guinea , project commissioning , publishing , independence (probability theory) , governor , language change , order (exchange) , political science , law , statement (logic) , history , sociology , business , engineering , ethnology , art , literature , statistics , mathematics , finance , anthropology , aerospace engineering
Corruption and law and order problems beset Papua New Guinea in its 20th year of independence. Says former Governor of the Central Bank, Sir Mekere Morauta: 'This nation is under the spell of the statement that we are rich. So our riches will deliver us from the evils, from our own evils. They didn't. Where are we now?' [Transcript of an SBS Dateline programme PNG: Under the Spell, broadcast on 6 May 1995, and rebroadcast on PNG's EM TV on May 15, amid controversy].