Slow rate of development

VARIOUS governments over the last four decades has brought our country to where we are now.
Despite hardships and challenges, as a country, the government showed renewed commitment to bring us into an era of immeasurable success.
But the slow rate of development is a challenge for everyone.
Corruption, which is ideally at everyone’s lips, is blamed for this, but unfortunately, it may have begun back to the day of country’s independence or prior.
I tend to think if our country was to have been left at the hands of Australia, mechanisms of public machinery with its practices for greater output for success would have been deeply embedded into the governance and management structures and the public sector.
Being a part of these established corrupt-free practices would have eliminated any ideal ground for corruption to strive or would not have brought corrupt practices into limelight.
This is in my opinion attributed to the rush in the decision of self-rule, which would otherwise have been phased out if Australia were to have ruled PNG for another 30-40 years.
Almost a half a century later, extraction of natural resources has only left behind footholds of its extractions and debris.
What a pity it is for future generation to hear of only the extraction without seeing the physical development.

Keison Tipiou