Poverty protest at Jackson Airport was a disgrace
THE front page picture on March 7 about protesters holding placards with the words, “Mr Rudd, 65 years of poverty. Can you help?” was a disgrace.
Whoever arranged the protest at Jackson Airport ought to be ashamed, behaving just like a street beggar when the starving was not the making of Mr Rudd or Australia.
PNG is not starving like some poor African states.
Any such protests must made to our own Prime Minister and the Government of the day. We should not be begging from others as a result of our own mismanagement.
The appropriate words on the placard should have read: “Mr Rudd, 65 years on and we are yet to be thanked. Please compensate us, the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels”.
I am sure there are a lot of sons, daughters and grandchildren and relatives of those famous fuzzy wuzzy angels and they deserve some form of compensation from Australia.

Steven Supi Palisa, Port Moresby
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