tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244882.post619915310940126101..comments2024-03-05T17:54:53.307+10:00Comments on Malum Nalu: The last day of 2016Malum Naluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17513608976714683688noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244882.post-34551637726090238542017-01-01T17:18:37.940+10:002017-01-01T17:18:37.940+10:00Thank you Malum for posting your vacation to Lae a...Thank you Malum for posting your vacation to Lae and Goroka with your daughter. And all credit to you for your honesty in your final comments about PNG's many problems. Having lived and worked in PNG for over 20 years my heart goes out to the plight of the ordinary villager, whose conditions of existence have barely improved since 1975, despite the billions of dollars and kinas wasted by misgovernment. I am starting to wonder if western democratic style government is really appropriate for emerging nations such as PNG - a bounteous land and dynamic people that with strong leadership had the potential (and the means to achieve it)to be at least a second world, if not first world, nation by 2017. Sanctorumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11313415100560091588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244882.post-26820299197194692552017-01-01T17:18:13.710+10:002017-01-01T17:18:13.710+10:00Thank you Malum for posting your vacation to Lae a...Thank you Malum for posting your vacation to Lae and Goroka with your daughter. And all credit to you for your honesty in your final comments about PNG's many problems. Having lived and worked in PNG for over 20 years my heart goes out to the plight of the ordinary villager, whose conditions of existence have barely improved since 1975, despite the billions of dollars and kinas wasted by misgovernment. I am starting to wonder if western democratic style government is really appropriate for emerging nations such as PNG - a bounteous land and dynamic people that with strong leadership had the potential (and the means to achieve it)to be at least a second world, if not first world, nation by 2017. Sanctorumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11313415100560091588noreply@blogger.com