WONDER where Kevin Rudd stands over the Moti affair? Up the creek without a rudder?
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GOOD morning, sports lovers! We now approach the talented and gentlemanly end of the sporting year, with the cricket season upon us once again. It’s the time when the Baggy Greens confront The Rest, with predictable results, and bowling a maiden over now assumes a whole new meaning.
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PNG youngsters can be spotted whacking the ball for six and fiercely defending their wickets. Never mind that the ball would be more at home on the beach than in the back end of an urban alley or that the wicket is a large, used and rather smelly cooking oil tin.
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PAPUAN spin king Tau Muralitharan, aged 12, bounds up to the bowler’s crease and unleashes a fiendish ball to the grim-faced Wilfred Livingstone Shakespeare Rudyard Ponting, the nine-year-old Milne Bay batsman ...
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DID you notice yesterday that a senior PNG soccer official resigned? He gave as his reason: “I have to resign to allow other potential people to take over ...” Damn those pesky robots, they’re getting to be a plague. Now where can we find a few potential people?
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THE reaction to the apparent murder of a senior magistrate in Port Moresby this week has predictably led to outrage. But we cannot help wondering at the avalanche of verbal attacks made against the West Papuans. Many of these people arrived in our country as refugees decades ago and have led peaceful and often productive lives ever since.
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FAR more bloody and horrific deaths of senior Papua New Guineans occur, often without comment from our politicians and community leaders. But then the aggressors are Papua New Guineans ... and “that’s different”. Is it?
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SPY in Madang has reported an outbreak of those “institutions” offering all manner of “tertiary” qualifications to an unwary public. We repeat the old warning – don’t enrol and certainly don’t pay one toea until the organisation shows you its National Training Council authentication.
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CHEERS – and catch you all tomorrow. Make sure to bring ball and bails – Spy has promised a Madang bat for the occasion. Howzat?
– Dee Nesenolis