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That smile
PM Marape’s affectionate gesture as he welcomed back Bulolo MP Sam Basil in Parliament yesterday summed up the mood on the Government side during the final 2020 sitting of the House. Sigh of relief.
Not you too
That famous Et tu Brute quotation from the Shakespearean play Julius Caesar may have crossed the mind of Opposition Leader Belden Namah as he watched those MPs he had spent the past few weeks together crossing the floor yesterday.
Strange bedfellows
The saying “politics makes strange bedfellows” refers to how political interests bring people together who otherwise have little in common. It is adapted from the Shakespearean play The Tempest.
Exercise in futility
Questions will be asked whether that Nov 13 political maneuvering was an exercise in futility. We leave it to the PNG political analysts.
Status quo
Everything back to the status quo. And the weather in Port Moresby is becoming as unpredictable as the politics.
Food for thought
“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.” – Richard Armour
Top quote
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
– Ernst Benn