[This is an initial draft from PNGSA = Papua New Guinea Solidarity
Action. More information to come: Checkout the public archives of the
PNGSA mailing list (eGroup) @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PNGSA/]
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CALL FOR ACTION
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On Tuesday, 22nd October, Klaus Rohland, the WORLD BANK’s Country
Director for Papua New Guinea, East Timor and the Pacific Islands, will
hold a public lecture at Sydney University. The topic: Instability in
PNG. The abstract reads: “As the ‘GREAT POWER’ OF THE REGION, what role
should Australia play? WHEN SHOULD AUSTRALIA INTERVENE AND HOW?”
[emphasis added].
To date Australia’s “intervention” in PNG can only be described as
serving AUSTRALIAN INTERESTS and disregarding the interests of the PNG
people. The recently defeated government of Mekere Morauta, that the
Australian Government openly supported even in the shambolic PNG
elections, left behind the biggest deficit in PNG’s history despite
wide-scale, unpopular, privatisation. Last year Morauta sent in special
police – trained by Australia – that killed anti-privatisation
protesters, who demanded an answer from Morauta to a petition adopted by
a mass student meeting before.
We will be protesting against the lecture with banners and handing out
counter-information about the detrimental affect World Bank policies and
AUStralian (tied) AID and “INTERFERENCE” have on the PNG PEOPLE.
We call on anyone interested and all activists to participate.
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World Bank & Australia: HANDS OFF PNG!
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Tuesday, 22nd October, 5.30 pm
@
The Great Hall, Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney
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