Slow rate of development

THE management of government over the past four decades has brought our country to where it is 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, but unfortunately it may have been born back in the day of country’s independence or befopre that.
I tend to think that if our country was to have been left at the hand of Australia to fend for itself, mechanisms of public machinery with its practices for greater output for success would have been by now been deeply embedded into the governance and management structures and practices of every public sector.
Being part of these established corrupt-free practices in various capacities would have eliminated any ideal ground for corruption to strive or would not have brought the corrupt practices into the limelight.
The ethnic groupings and its related practices have gone from strength to strength and sadly entered the fabric of professional organisations, leaving behind the footprint and the model – seeing wrong as right – for generations to come.
We rushed into the decision for self-rule. We would have been better off if Australia had ruled PNG for another 30 to 40 years.
Almost a half-a-century-long extraction of natural resources has has only left behind footprints of extraction and debris.
What a pity it is for future generation to hear of only the extraction without seeing the physical development.
Keison Tipiou