tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65594674902893608662024-03-14T01:06:05.037+10:00SigabaduruSigabaduru is a small PNG coastal village located 3km from Saibai IslandDan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-12469805564229614082017-06-07T06:54:00.004+10:002017-06-07T06:54:48.119+10:00Horror Buimo jail break high level investigation begins in PNG<div class="comp-rich-text clearfix" id="comp-rich-text10">
Nearly four weeks after 17 prisoners were shot dead during a mass
jail breakout in PNG, an investigation is about to get underway.<br />
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PNG Correctional
Services had ordered an investigation into the incident at Buimo jail in mid
May, but has been unable to send a team of investigators to Lae because
as usual there was no funding available.<br />
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International human rights organizations have called for an independent inquiry, expressing concern
that security forces' first response was to use lethal force.<br />
It's also not the first time there's been a deadly breakout at Buimo jail.<br />
12 prisoners were killed and 18 wounded when 94 prisoners escaped in February last year.<br />
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Ruben
Manamb is the Acting Senior Operations officer for PNG Corrections and
part of the four-person investigation team traveling to Lae to carry
out a week-long investigation.<br />
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Dan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.com0Lae, Papua New Guinea-6.7155252 146.999905-6.7786042 146.919224 -6.6524462 147.080586tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-16681938434989321572017-06-07T06:16:00.000+10:002017-06-07T06:16:18.184+10:00<div class="comp-rich-text clearfix" id="comp-rich-text10">
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Police in Lae are moving forward with their investigations into a failed
robbery at the lae's airport, in which one of the suspects was shot
dead by police.<br />
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The head of Lae police, Superintendent Anthony
Wagambie says they received information from the community about plans by an armed group to
break into Nadzab airport, which is around 40 kilometers outside of
Lae.<br />
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He told John Papik that despite police being able to disturb
the criminals and prevent the robbery, the majority are still on the
run.<br />
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Dan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.com0Lae, Papua New Guinea-6.7155252 146.999905-6.7786042 146.919224 -6.6524462 147.080586tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-42343857985800306402017-06-07T06:09:00.000+10:002017-06-07T06:09:21.954+10:00 PNG-flagged cargo ship banned from Australian ports<div class="view-rating">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> PNG-flagged cargo ship banned from Australian ports</b></span></h2>
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, AMSA, has banned a Papua
New Guinea-flagged cargo ship from using Australian ports for three
months after detecting scores of defects in several areas including
safety, maintenance and crew conditions.<br />
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The <i>Kiunga Chief</i> was detained for the third time in 18 months and Australian inspectors found
the ship's fire-fighting systems didn't work and that the crew couldn't
operate them even if they did. A serious lack in safety equipment and training along with a lax safety culture on board the ship.<br />
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All up, Australian Maritime Safety Authority has issued the ship 79 deficiencies since August 2015.<br />
The
Authority's acting general manager of operations Stephen Curry said
systemic failures by the Kiunga Chief's operator Consort Express Lines
have put the safety of the crew and the Australian marine environment at
risk.<br />
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<br />Dan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.com0Papua New Guinea-6.3149929999999994 143.95555000000002-22.2666125 123.30125300000002 9.6366265 164.609847tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-74449628308262615272017-06-06T09:48:00.002+10:002017-06-06T09:48:47.122+10:00Mission to seek out PNG sports stars of the fuure!<div class="comp-rich-text clearfix" id="comp-rich-text11">
In such a far flung country with a large and fast growing population,
it's long been suspected that Papua New Guinea is highly likely to have
pockets of hidden sporting talent.<br />
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Kieran Sciberras, from James Cook University in Cairns, is planning a
two year mission to establish just how great PNG's talent pool might be,
by conducting a series of tests on athletes and would-be athletes all
over the nation.<br />
Ultimately Kieran is hoping the results of his
research will enhance Papua New Guinea's long-term sporting future, and
help them achieve their ambition of being one of the top 10 sporting
nations in the Commonwealth.<br />
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Dan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.com0Papua New Guinea-6.3149929999999994 143.95555000000002-22.2666125 123.30125300000002 9.6366265 164.609847tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-58453859948090823882017-06-05T06:43:00.001+10:002017-06-07T06:33:46.141+10:00About Me<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hello and welcome to Sigabaduru, I created this site so my daughter could gain some information about the little PNG village she was lucky enough to be born in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Papua New Guinea has always been a big part of my life. After my parents divorced, my father married a lady from Port Morsesby. My stepmother had 5 children ans I feel that I was really lucky to be brought up with a style of life so different from my own.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> People from PNG are very family orientated, they have strong traditions and I listened to many traditional PNG stories while growing up. To cut a long story short I feel that I owe PNG alot, as growing up and being deeply engaged with the people of PNG made me who I am today!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I want to do a lot of things for the people if Sigabaduru as I have strong family ties within the village. My first mission would be to help my daughters grandfather (</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Philip Darua)</span></span>. Philip Darua gave my daughter security, love, food and a roof over her little head. Philip currently suffers from cataracts, he is only is able to see shadows making his life very difficult.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I will not stop until I am able to seek help for Philip, both myself and my daughter owe him so much. When I am able to seek help for Philip I will then strive to create useful projects to help the village as a whole. If you are a visitor to this site and wish to help me make at least one life better don't hesitate to <a href="http://sigabaduru.blogspot.com.au/p/contact-us.html">Contact Us</a> and we will work to make my dreams a reality.</span><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Will will update this page some more as soon as I figure out who I am ???</b></span></div>
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Dan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.com0Cairns QLD, Australia-16.9185514 145.77805480000006-17.404770399999997 145.13260780000007 -16.4323324 146.42350180000005tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-4707521685798048322017-06-05T06:26:00.001+10:002017-06-05T06:26:05.573+10:00Cross border catch ups<br /><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 40px; left: 167.912px; text-align: center; top: 103.992px; transform: scaleX(0.865057);">
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Market day on Saibai Island was a great </div>
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opportunity for some of our staff to have </div>
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an informal chat with Papua New Guinea’s </div>
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Sigabadaru village cross border residents.</div>
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Sigabadura village residents are able to come </div>
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Sigabadura is the central village to Kiwai and </div>
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Agob tribal land and people. </div>
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Saibai Island is the closest Torres and Cape </div>
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Primary Health Care centre to PNG’s Western </div>
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province.</div>
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ATODS Program Manager), Dion Uku (Operations </div>
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their health issues. </div>
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“We had to use three languages to communicate </div>
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with the locals,” said Marsat. “We have a few </div>
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Dan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.com0Saibai Island, Queensland 4875, Australia-9.4051283999999988 142.69210010000006-9.530453399999999 142.53073860000006 -9.2798033999999987 142.85346160000006tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-41752478907381271692017-06-04T16:29:00.001+10:002017-06-07T08:30:11.716+10:00Photos<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Hw3CyS1rnaS2W89coiNg_rJXYKLpdgqmA7_sb_sgdvGnUPZ0S18_vTsyaNN1zfMiEPprKEhNh1Em3Pe72bqHngsIALuC6_jm594JRE8FcqyjfG9FrAjb9yNoK4wu4lN1FfmW8Lvih1nH/s1600/8c131795a4294758ba1769c6114b0510.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Hw3CyS1rnaS2W89coiNg_rJXYKLpdgqmA7_sb_sgdvGnUPZ0S18_vTsyaNN1zfMiEPprKEhNh1Em3Pe72bqHngsIALuC6_jm594JRE8FcqyjfG9FrAjb9yNoK4wu4lN1FfmW8Lvih1nH/s1600/8c131795a4294758ba1769c6114b0510.jpg" /></a><a 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Dan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-18970580711486969672016-03-02T01:56:00.000+10:002016-03-02T01:56:05.288+10:00Radio stations<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="fix" style="background-color: #2b5baa; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px none; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 617px;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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Radio stations in Port Moresby</h1>
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Redio stesin long Pot Mosbi</h1>
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<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 93.90</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="tt " href="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/play/wantok.htm" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Listen live"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/fj/images/light.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> Wantok Radio Light <img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/icon_red.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="16" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Burns Peak</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 95.50</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.nbc.com.pg/" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/nbc.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> NBC Central - Kibi Gadona <img align="absmiddle" height="14" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/outer.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="10" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Burns Peak</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 96.50</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.cfl.com.fj/radiopng.php" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/nau.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> Nau FM <img align="absmiddle" height="14" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/outer.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="10" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Burns Peak</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 97.00</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Hot97Fm" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/hot97.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> Hot 97 FM <img align="absmiddle" height="14" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/outer.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="10" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Burns Peak</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 97.90</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/2G.97.9FM" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/2g.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> Radio 2G <img align="absmiddle" height="14" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/outer.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="10" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Pacific Adventist University</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 98.50</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.upng.ac.pg/" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/upng.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> Radio UPNG <img align="absmiddle" height="14" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/outer.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="10" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">University of Papua New Guinea</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 99.50</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.chmsupersound.com/" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/rait.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> Rait FM <img align="absmiddle" height="14" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/outer.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="10" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Gordons, Gabaka St</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">100.40</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="tt " href="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/play/fm100.htm" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Listen live"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/fm100.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> FM100 <img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/icon_mp32.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="16" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Burns Peak</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">101.10</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.cfl.com.fj/radiopng.php" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/legend.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> Legend FM <img align="absmiddle" height="14" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/outer.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="10" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Burns Peak</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">101.90</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="tt " href="http://worldradiomap.com/au/play/abc_australia_pacific.htm" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Listen live"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/au/images/abc_australia.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> ABC Radio Australia <img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/icon_mp32.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="16" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Burns Peak</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">103.50</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="tt " href="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/play/maria.htm" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Listen live"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://radiomap.eu/it/images/maria.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> Radio Maria <img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/icon_mp32.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="16" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Burns Peak</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">105.10</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/nologo.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> Paradise FM</td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Boroko</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">106.70</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="tt " href="http://radiomap.eu/uk/play/bbc_worldservice.htm" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Listen live"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://radiomap.eu/uk/images/bbc_worldservice.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> BBC World Service <img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/icon_mp32.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="16" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Burns Peak</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr5" colspan="3" style="background: rgb(231, 234, 249); border: 0px none; height: 7px; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr31" style="background: rgb(231, 234, 249); border: 0px none; color: #898bb9; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 3px; vertical-align: middle; width: 53px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AM</b>,kHz</td><td class="tr32" style="background: rgb(231, 234, 249); border: 0px none; color: #898bb9; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; vertical-align: middle; width: 297px;">Station / Redio</td><td class="tr33" style="background: rgb(231, 234, 249); border: 0px none; color: #898bb9; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 3px; vertical-align: middle; width: 231px;">Transmitter</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 585</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.nbc.com.pg/" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/nbc.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> NBC Karai National Radio <img align="absmiddle" height="14" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/outer.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="10" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Waigani</td></tr>
<tr class="rt1" style="background: url("common/rt1.png") repeat-x rgb(243, 243, 243); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="dxfreq" style="border: 0px none; color: #b5b5b5; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 675</td><td class="dxfsta" style="border: 0px none; color: #b5b5b5; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.nbc.com.pg/" style="color: #788ab8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/nbc.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.65; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> NBC Morobe - Nek BlongKundu <img align="absmiddle" height="14" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/outer.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.65; padding: 0px;" width="10" /></a></td><td class="dxfpre" style="border: 0px none; color: #b5b5b5; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Lae, Bubia</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr5" colspan="3" style="background: rgb(231, 234, 249); border: 0px none; height: 7px; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr31" style="background: rgb(231, 234, 249); border: 0px none; color: #898bb9; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 3px; vertical-align: middle; width: 53px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SW</b>,kHz</td><td class="tr32" style="background: rgb(231, 234, 249); border: 0px none; color: #898bb9; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; vertical-align: middle; width: 297px;">Station / Redio</td><td class="tr33" style="background: rgb(231, 234, 249); border: 0px none; color: #898bb9; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 3px; vertical-align: middle; width: 231px;">Transmitter</td></tr>
<tr class="rt1" style="background: url("common/rt1.png") repeat-x rgb(243, 243, 243); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="dxfreq" style="border: 0px none; color: #b5b5b5; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 3220</td><td class="dxfsta" style="border: 0px none; color: #b5b5b5; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.nbc.com.pg/" style="color: #788ab8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/nbc.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.65; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> NBC Morobe - Nek BlongKundu <img align="absmiddle" height="14" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/outer.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.65; padding: 0px;" width="10" /></a></td><td class="dxfpre" style="border: 0px none; color: #b5b5b5; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Lae, Bubia</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 3290</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.nbc.com.pg/" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/nbc.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> NBC Central - Kibi Gadona <img align="absmiddle" height="14" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/outer.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="10" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Waigani</td></tr>
<tr class="rt1" style="background: url("common/rt1.png") repeat-x rgb(243, 243, 243); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="dxfreq" style="border: 0px none; color: #b5b5b5; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 3345</td><td class="dxfsta" style="border: 0px none; color: #b5b5b5; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.nbc.com.pg/" style="color: #788ab8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/nbc.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.65; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> NBC Northern - Voice of Oro <img align="absmiddle" height="14" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/outer.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.65; padding: 0px;" width="10" /></a></td><td class="dxfpre" style="border: 0px none; color: #b5b5b5; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Popondetta</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 4890</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.nbc.com.pg/" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/nbc.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> NBC Karai National Radio <img align="absmiddle" height="14" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/outer.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="10" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Waigani (Nighttime)</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 7325</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="tt " href="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/play/wantok.htm" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Listen live"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/fj/images/light.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> Wantok Radio Light <img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/icon_red.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="16" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Waigani</td></tr>
<tr class="rt0" style="background: url("common/rt0.png") repeat-x rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="freq" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"> 9675</td><td class="fsta" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.nbc.com.pg/" style="color: #3d59a0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="absmiddle" height="21" src="http://worldradiomap.com/pg/images/nbc.gif" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="21" /> NBC Karai National Radio <img align="absmiddle" height="14" src="http://worldradiomap.com/2013/images/outer.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="10" /></a></td><td class="fpre" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle;">Waigani (Daytime)</td></tr>
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<br />Dan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-75873490015927673672016-03-02T01:34:00.001+10:002016-03-02T01:34:39.395+10:00Alphabet of the Language Spoken at Weskokop Village, Huon Peninsula, Pap...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yXH8o5Ct_GI" width="459"></iframe>Dan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-46984088464450219612016-03-02T01:33:00.001+10:002016-03-02T01:33:04.220+10:00The Rise Of Superbugs Resistant To Antibiotics<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JW1T_RP-1rQ" width="480"></iframe>Dan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-62854769198470643172016-03-02T01:24:00.002+10:002016-03-02T01:24:30.625+10:00Relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea<div class="cq-article-content-paras section" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 17.9998px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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There is no question that if we are to improve the quality of the relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea we need to rethink the aid relationship. This is, of course, easier said than done, and has already been attempted a few times. But especially in light of changes in the PNG economy, it needs to be done again. A particular focus has to be increasing the capacity of PNG government officials, rather than simply implanting Australian officials in the PNG bureaucracy because we do not think their officials are up to the task.</div>
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Prime Minister Peter O'Neill earned shrill headlines in Australia in August 2015 following a statement on how he believed the aid relationship could improve. He was said to have plans to "boot out Australian officials" working for his government and that he would "turf out all foreign advisers by the year's end'.</div>
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The full statement, in fact, should be welcomed by Australia as it indicated a determination by PNG to take greater control of tackling its problems. "As a developing country we don't want handouts," O'Neill said, "we don't want Australian taxpayer money wasted and we don't want boomerang aid." His complaint was about how much money never reached its real purpose. </div>
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"Development assistance has become a billion dollar 'industry' where so much of the goodwill ends up in the pockets of middlemen and expensive consultants," he said. '" wonder if the people of Australia realise how much of the money they give to help Papua New Guinea and other countries is actually paid to middlemen and lawyers." He said that rather than having advisers who worked for their own governments he wanted to move to a model in 2016 "where our partners will be welcome to fund positions within our government. These staff can then work and report through the Papua New Guinea government system and we will deliver their salaries through arrangements with the donor countries." He predicted this would help strengthen PNG's government systems from within and gradually wean PNG off development assistance.</div>
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O'Neill also forecast a change to the policing assistance given by Australia."We have had a policing partnership program in place for a couple of years now and I think all parties agree, the benefits are limited due to restrictions placed on the Australian police," O'Neill said.</div>
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"We have Australian police officers who are committed to strengthening law enforcement in our country, but they are frustrated by the bureaucracy that means they cannot do hands-on policing. I cannot imagine being a police officer who is told that if they see a crime being committed, he or she has to stand back and watch. We would like to recruit foreign police into line positions within the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary so they can lead by example and pass on their knowledge and skills."</div>
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There are signs that the government is shifting to a greater focus on capacity. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has pushed for the creation of a Pacific Leadership and Governance Precinct in Port Moresby to improve the training of PNG public servants.</div>
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Back in the colonial era, Australia had a highly regarded training institute in Sydney called the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA). It ran tertiary level courses for people recruited to work in PNG, including the kiaps and teachers. In 1970 it started training Papua New Guineans when Australia realised there was going to be a serious shortage of well-trained and qualified indigenous people to replace the Australians. My sister-in-law spent 10 months there in the mid-1970s doing a management training course. This new Governance Precinct that Australia is funding is, in some ways, ASOPA resurrected. The aim is to build leadership and management skills across all levels of the PNG public service.</div>
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In a press release issued for the launch of the precinct in November 2015, Julie Bishop said, "The institutions involved in the precinct will work closely with the public and private sector to foster the ethical, practical and intellectual framework to help build the leadership qualities and skills of government officials."</div>
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Papua New Guineans are also seriously underrepresented in Australia's Seasonal Worker Program. This program allows companies to recruit Pacific Islanders to work in Australia's horticulture, accommodation, aquaculture, cane and cotton industries. The Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme was introduced in 2008 and ran until mid-2012.</div>
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Although the modest cap on the pilot program was 2500 workers, the numbers who came in to take up short-term employment fell well short of that, at 1534. Of those, 1250 were Tongans while only 82 came in from PNG. A permanent scheme is now in place allowing Pacific Islanders to work in Australia "for a single approved Australian employer for a period of between 14 weeks and 6 months". The cap on numbers for 2015-16 is 4250. New Zealand has a similar seasonal labour scheme which is working much better and takes twice as many Pacific Islanders.</div>
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They would come across the short gap of ocean, across to Australia to access these services. Unfortunately, we know that those types of services are not the best services to put in place for people with TB. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"The best service you can offer someone with TB, particularly in a third world country, is the World Health Organization auspice service of DOTS -- direct observed treatment. The reason that is the best service is that then you can make sure that the patients are receiving their treatment every single day for the full course that is required. If that doesn't occur we know that there is a real risk that drug resistance can emerge. And indeed extremely drug resistant TB could emerge. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"So by putting in place a DOTS auspice program into PNG itself, you can reduce that risk. And that's the work that the Commonwealth Government has been doing through AusAID now for the last year. They have been setting up treatment services within the villages and they've also enhanced the service that's available at Daru -- the referral hospital for that part of Papua New Guinea. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"They've put in place a sea ambulance to take patients to Daru if they've needed, but more importantly they have got services available in the actual villages where the people live. So they don't need to travel across the Strait, through to the Torres Strait to obtain services. In the past those services, although very well intentioned of course, meant that at some times people wouldn't be able to make the trip and would miss out on their drugs for that period and there would be issues with it. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"So now with the new process in place I am confident that we are reducing the risk to Australians from obtaining TB. We have had very, very few cases over the years of TB within the Torres Strait itself. Torres Strait people, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who live in those communities, of course can continue to access TB services as can any Queenslander. So I am confident all of these changes will actually reduce the risk to those people and to all Queenslanders.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Benefits of the Direct Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) for treating TB </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"The World Health Organization recommends that wherever possible the DOTS program should be utilised -- direct observed treatment. That is where health workers actually monitor people taking their drugs every day during the treatment. Most sensitive TB regimes last around six months, so it's important that the people take the drugs every day for that six-month period and DOTS ensures that happens. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"It's always much more difficult if you ask people to come to a clinic every six weeks or so, to pick up their medication because they mightn't be able to make the trip for whatever reason. Indeed we had some times when the border was closed and it was difficult for people to access the drugs. Also that they mightn't be aware of the importance of taking the drugs every single day if there isn't someone there to remind them. Which is why WHO recommends DOTS for all third world countries."</div>Dan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-43187941365411480982014-07-22T21:03:00.001+10:002014-07-22T21:09:05.638+10:00Will Torres Strait become asylum backdoor to Australia<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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Off the far north coast of Australia, another frontline is opening up in the political battle over asylum seekers.<br />
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The plan to send all new arrivals to Papua New Guinea was supposed to stop the boats, but there are growing concerns that instead it could simply provide a new route for people smugglers.The Torres Strait, off the northern tip of Queensland, is a strip of ocean where only four kilometres separates Australian territory from PNG.<br />
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In the last few days, two boats carrying asylum seekers have been apprehended while crossing the Torres Strait. The Queensland premier Campbell Newman claims the trickle could turn into a torrent, but the home affairs minister, Jason Clare says, the numbers don't bear that out.<br />
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7.30 sent reporter Matt Wordsworth to the Torres Strait islands to investigate.</h3>
The Torres Strait is a sea bound paradise. Turquoise water spills over coral reefs and sandy beaches. But, for years this sparsely populated frontier has also been a well known smuggling route for drugs, guns and people. This is what passes for a customs checkpoint on Australia's northern most island and the frontline with Papua New Guinea.<br />
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There are no scanners or sniffer dogs here. The checkpoint is the boat ramp where names are recorded and quarantine staff look over cargo for signs of pests and disease.<br />
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Due to centuries old family links, the Australian Government allows PNG villagers from 13 settlements along the coast free movement in the region and these villagers make the seven kilometre trip every week to bring their goods to market.<br />
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DIMAS TOBY, TORRES STRAIT ISLAND REGIONAL COUNCIL: The population is about 300 but throughout the year it fluctuates.<br />
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MATT WORDSWORTH: But it’s this proximity that has the local councillor, Dimas Toby, worried about the Federal Government's PNG solution.<br />
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DIMAS TOBY: Mr Rudd made that proposal and the decision of, you know, the processing and detention centre down at Manus Island. This is the doorway for internationals to come in. We've had in the past that came through individuals and in a group.<br />
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MATT WORDSWORTH: Each year it's estimated that there's about 50,000 crossings from Papua New Guinea to Australia.<br />
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So just how close is our nearest neighbour? Well, we're floating above the international border with Papua New Guinea. At about 3.5 kilometres that way is the mainland of PNG. Just over three kilometres that way is Boigu Island, and that's Australia. So all you need for this international journey is a tinny.<br />
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Local journalist Aaron Smith says it's not only Boigu Island that has reservations about the PNG solution.<br />
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AARON SMITH, TORRES NEWS: A lot of the regional leaders up here are concerned. You know, we have a pretty porous border up here. One of the treaty villages on the island is Saibai, about four Ks from the PNG mainland. That border has about 26,000 crossings a year just to that one island and a significant percentage of those are not legal immigrants, mostly PNG people. But there are concern that that will be a back door into the country.<br />
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MATT WORDSWORTH: Those fears were realised on Saturday when two Somalis were detained on Boigu Island. They were flown to Cairns where they will be sent to Manus Island. Just a day earlier, another two suspected asylum seekers were intercepted off nearby Saibai Island. It takes the total number of irregular maritime arrivals in the Torres Strait to 10, already matching last year's total. In 2011 there were one, in 2010, there were none at all.<br />
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AARON SMITH: There's not a racquet going on, as far as I've heard, it's more just opportunist people that are really keen to get out here and live in Australia.<br />
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MATT WORDSWORTH: This Customs boat crew is the frontline of defence against illegal entry to Australia through the Torres Strait.<br />
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Gary Donn (phonetic) is a senior officer normally based in Cairns.<br />
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It's a big patch to cover for the two boats in service, about 50,000 square kilometres.<br />
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So how often would you do a patrol like this?<br />
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GARY DONN, SENIOR OFFICER: (Inaudible) ... at least once a week. We try to prefer to do overnight patrols because it's a more efficient way of using our staff. But they will ensure the vessel goes out somewhere at least every week.<br />
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MATT WORDSWORTH: And how many boats like this have you got?<br />
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GARY DONN: There's four of them in Australia. One in Western Australia, one in Darwin and one in Gove and there's one here at Thursday Island.<br />
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MATT WORDSWORTH: It doesn't take long to locate an international visitor.<br />
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GARY DONN: Matt, I just talked to that bloke on the radio. He first pulled into Cairns a few days ago, he's now heading off to Darwin, with a Belgium registered vessel, his English language isn't real good but it's been cleared in the Cairns, we don't have a great deal of more interest in him today.<br />
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MATT WORDSWORTH: So let him go?<br />
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GARY DONN: Yeah, the details he's given match with what we've got on our system so all's fine.<br />
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MATT WORDSWORTH: Alright.<br />
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Customs has just 13 staff in the Torres Strait with another six available at short notice in Cairns. There are two helicopters and two boats. But it puts the Queensland Premier at loggerheads with Canberra.<br />
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CAMPBELL NEWMAN, QLD PREMIER: The idea that 13 officials are enough to police 270 odd islands and thousands of square kilometres of sea area is preposterous. So, Kevin Rudd, if he wants the PNG solution to work, he needs to essentially properly close the border and make sure that only people who are legit can get across.<br />
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JASON CLARE, HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER: I know Premier Newman has been trying to scare everybody up here. Let me give you the facts. The fact is that last year 10 people crossed from PNG to across the Torres Strait and 10 people have made that same journey this year. The difference now, is that everybody that crosses the Torres Strait, without a visa, will get flown to Manus Island. No one will be processed here, no one will be settled here. That's the difference.<br />
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MATT WORDSWORTH: To make matters worse, Councillor Dimas Toby says there's also been cutbacks in recent years.<br />
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DIMAS TOBY: We've experienced that over the last couple of years that there has been cut back on customs from Thursday Island. There's been cutback on fisheries and...<br />
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MATT WORDSWORTH: Does that mean fewer people or fewer patrols?<br />
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DIMAS TOBY: There's fewer patrols, but I think if you're really looking to asylum seeker problem I think we really need to step up on security and give Torres Strait region the assurance that, you know, we're safe.<br />
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<br />Dan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.com0South Fly, Papua New Guinea-9.3027278164130571 142.6025390625-9.8042098164130564 141.9570920625 -8.8012458164130578 143.2479860625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-41610892798851692652014-07-22T18:27:00.001+10:002014-07-22T18:32:27.003+10:00Australia PNG joint border patrol<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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Australia Network's Pacific correspondent Sean Dorney, a former veteran Papua New Guinea correspondent, has just been back to PNG - to a village he has never visited before.<br />
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Sean was invited to be part of a joint patrol to Sigabaduru village involving Australian Customs, Australian Federal Police (AFP), Queensland Police, Papua New Guinea Customs, PNG Immigration and PNG Police.<br />
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The village of Sigabaduru is on the southern coast of Papua New Guinea's Western (or Fly River) Province and is less than three kilometres from the Australian island of Saibai. We went there in quite speedy tenders launched from a patrol boat, the Australian Customs Vessel Holdfast Bay. Unlike Saibai which has a wharf, electricity and running water, Sigabaduru - a village of 850 to 1,000 people - has no electricity, no running water and no wharf. That meant wading ashore.<br />
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Once on the beach Grant Smith, the Australian Federal Police officer who was in the team, handed over his gun to his PNG counterpart, a policewoman who held it until he was ready to return to Australian territory.<br />
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Sigabaduru is one of the villages covered by the Australia PNG Treaty whereby PNG citizens are allowed traditional entry into a number of Australian islands in the Torres Strait, free from the need for visas.<br />
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About 50,000 visits are made to Australian islands like Saibai each year by Papua New Guineans covered by the Treaty. In fact, the day before we crossed over to Sigabaduru I ran into one of the men from that village, Nope Nama, who was on a shopping trip to the supermarket at another Australian island just off the PNG mainland, Dauan. He bought some rice, flour, sugar and fruit juice. He was back on the PNG mainland before nightfall.<br />
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The idea of the joint cross border patrols is to maintain relationships with the communities and the trips provide the authorities in both Australia and PNG with invaluable intelligence. The local people on both sides of the border know each other extremely well and so the Torres Strait is not the easy access route to Australia by potential asylum seekers or others that one might assume.<br />
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Liam Daly, the Australian Customs and Border Security team leader for the Torres Strait, told a village meeting in Sigabaduru that the Australian agencies involved in the patrol had a variety of interests.<br />
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"We're interested into [sic] the movement of people into Australia, the movement of people out of Australia," he said. "Things like drugs, guns, money movement - that kind of stuff."<br />
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The AFP's Grant Smith told the people how much Australia had appreciated information Papua New Guineans had provided in the past.<br />
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"I just want to say we really value the relationship we've established with your village here," he said.<br />
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"And because we're so close. PNG and Australia are so close here these Cross Border Patrols which are led by Customs, it's really about us working together across that border so that both communities are safe."<br />
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There was one complaint from the other side. Koeget Salee, a retired school teacher from Sigabaduru, said that his people had assisted in reporting people trying to illegally enter Australia - but it was expensive for people in PNG to do so. He said that if he was reporting some suspicious movement to Saibai, he had to make an international phone call on his mobile even though Saibai was in full view just there across the water.<br />
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One issue that I reported on quite extensively when I was the ABC's Port Moresby correspondent in the 1990s was the trade of guns from Australian to the Torres Strait and marijuana from the PNG side. Although there was mention of it during the Sigabaduru village meeting, it appears the trade has declined somewhat. One of the reasons, I was told, is that hydroponic marijuana grown in Australia has taken market share off the PNG Highlands grown variety.<br />
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I asked the Queensland Police officer in charge in the Torres Strait Patrol Group about the trade.<br />
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"I wouldn't say that it doesn't occur," Inspector David Lacey said.<br />
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"Certainly our intelligence indicates that it is not as prevalent as perhaps it was in the past. I think one of the reasons is our continued cross border patrols with our federal counterparts.<br />
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"We have a very good connection of networks on the islands these days with the Movement Monitoring Officers employed by the Federal Government attached to each of the outer islands.<br />
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"Also we have Torres Strait Islands Police Support Officers currently on the islands so that network of contacts, I think, significantly reduces the amount of activity that goes on, specifically with regards to large-scale importations."<br />
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Inspector Lacey said a big part of the Queensland Police job in the Torres Strait these days is to do with search and rescue operations because the waters on both sides of the border can be quite treacherous.Dan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-18251315248631780432014-07-22T18:09:00.002+10:002014-07-22T18:09:56.671+10:00Sigabaduru is one of the villages covered by the Australia PNG Treaty<div style="text-align: center;">
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Sigabaduru is one of the villages covered by the Australia PNG Treaty
whereby PNG citizens are allowed traditional entry into a number of
Australian islands in the Torres Strait, free from the need for visas. <br />
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About 50,000 visits are made to Australian islands like Saibai each year by Papua New Guineans covered by the Treaty. <br />
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fact, the day before we crossed over to Sigabaduru I ran into one of
the men from that village, Nope Nama, who was on a shopping trip to the
supermarket at another Australian island just off the PNG mainland,
Dauan. <br />
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He bought some rice, flour, sugar and fruit juice. He was back on the PNG mainland before nightfall.<br />
The
idea of the joint cross border patrols is to maintain relationships
with the communities and the trips provide the authorities in both
Australia and PNG with invaluable intelligence.<br />
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The local people
on both sides of the border know each other extremely well and so the
Torres Strait is not the easy access route to Australia by potential
asylum seekers or others that one might assume.<br />
Liam Daly, the
Australian Customs and Border Security team leader for the Torres
Strait, told a village meeting in Sigabaduru that the Australian
agencies involved in the patrol had a variety of interests.<br />
"We're interested into [sic] the movement of people into Australia, the movement of people out of Australia," he said. <br />
"Things like drugs, guns, money movement - that kind of stuff."<br />
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The AFP's Grant Smith told the people how
much Australia had appreciated information Papua New Guineans had
provided in the past.<br />
"I just want to say we really value the relationship we've established with your village here," he said.<br />
"And
because we're so close. PNG and Australia are so close here these Cross
Border Patrols which are led by Customs, it's really about us working
together across that border so that both communities are safe."<br />
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There
was one complaint from the other side. Koeget Salee, a retired school
teacher from Sigabaduru, said that his people had assisted in reporting
people trying to illegally enter Australia - but it was expensive for
people in PNG to do so. <br />
He said that if he was reporting some
suspicious movement to Saibai, he had to make an international phone
call on his mobile even though Saibai was in full view just there across
the water. <br />
The joint border patrols also keep a watch on illegal fishing.<br />
One
issue that I reported on quite extensively when I was the ABC's Port
Moresby correspondent in the 1990s was the trade of guns from Australian
to the Torres Strait and marijuana from the PNG side.<br />
Although there was mention of it during the Sigabaduru village meeting, it appears the trade has declined somewhat. <br />
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One
of the reasons, I was told, is that hydroponic marijuana grown in
Australia has taken market share off the PNG Highlands grown variety.<br />
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I asked the Queensland Police officer in charge in the Torres Strait Patrol Group about the trade.<br />
"I wouldn't say that it doesn't occur," Inspector David Lacey said.<br />
"Certainly
our intelligence indicates that it is not as prevalent as perhaps it
was in the past. I think one of the reasons is our continued cross
border patrols with our federal counterparts. <br />
"We have a very
good connection of networks on the islands these days with the Movement
Monitoring Officers employed by the Federal Government attached to each
of the outer islands. <br />
"Also we have Torres Strait Islands Police
Support Officers currently on the islands so that network of contacts, I
think, significantly reduces the amount of activity that goes on,
specifically with regards to large-scale importations."<br />
Inspector
Lacey said a big part of the Queensland Police job in the Torres Strait
these days is to do with search and rescue operations because the waters
on both sides of the border can be quite treacherous.<br />
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A Papua New Guinean man whose daughter died in a
Queensland hospital has been told by bureaucrats he will have to use a
dinghy to get himself and his daughter's body home.</div>
Petru Aniba
made a mercy dash from his home village to the Torres Strait in February
in the hope of saving his 14-year-old daughter Marthi, who was
suffering tuberculosis.<br />
She eventually died in Cairns Base Hospital. Her father too had tuberculosis and has only been released from quarantine.<br />
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Queensland Health officials said they would only fly the man and his dead daughter as far as the Torres Strait.<br />
His
friend Robert Slade says Mr Aniba travelled from his village to the
Papua New Guinean township of Daru, and from there canoed to Saibai
Island in the Torres Strait.<br />
"Then from Saibai he was choppered to
Thursday Island, then from Thursday Island he was flown down to the
Cairns Base Hospital," Mr Slade said.<br />
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"Unfortunately, his daughter
Marthi passed away on February 24 and then Aniba was put into isolation
for a few months because of tuberculosis.<br />
"He came out of
isolation about, roughly, five weeks ago and has been waiting for him
and his daughter to be able to be repatriated back home so he can bury
his daughter.<br />
"Queensland Health were prepared to send him and his
daughter back to Saibai, but unfortunately from Saibai he would have to
organise for his brother-in-law to bring a dinghy over from Daru to
Saibai, which is an eight-hour journey in a dinghy and uses
approximately 80 litres of fuel."<br />
Mr Slade says Mr Aniba would have to take his daughter's body on board the dinghy without any refrigeration.<br />
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Outrage</h3>
The situation has outraged Warren Entsch, the Liberal MP for Leichhardt.<br />
"How could we do this in this country?" he said.<br />
"When
this fellow basically takes a huge risk, he's seriously ill himself,
comes across to our borders looking to try and save his 14-year-old
daughter, as any parent would do, we say 'right, we'll dump him on
Saibai and he can find his own way home and he can take the body of his
daughter with him'.<br />
"It is just heartless."<br />
A Queensland Health spokeswoman says the department does have a policy of returning people to their point of entry.<br />
Mr Entsch described that policy as "bloody bullshit".<br />
"They
know where he came from. That's a bit like saying 'all of these that
are coming in illegally in the boats, well, we've only got to take them
out and dump them back on Ashmore Reef'," he said.<br />
Mr Entsch has launched an appeal to raise $15,000 in airfares for Mr Aniba.<br />
But
late Friday, Queensland Health released a statement saying it was
prepared to provide whatever assistance was required to ensure Mr Aniba
and his daughter's body were safely repatriated to their home village
and that cost was not an issue.<br />
Cairns District chief executive
Julie Hartley-Jones said staff had met Mr Aniba on Thursday to discuss
the best way to get him and his daughter home.<br />
She said he asked
to be flown to Saibai and for Queensland Health to provide fuel for the
boat trip back to his home, which the department agreed to pay for.<br />
However, she said Mr Aniba had since indicated he was reconsidering his options.<br />
"Regardless
of this, Queensland Health stands ready and willing to do everything
possible to ensure Mr Petru and his daughter's body can be safely
returned to their home village in PNG," she said.<br />
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Widespread dilemma</h3>
The case raises a more widespread dilemma in the Torres Strait.<br />
Many
PNG citizens are making the desperate trip to Australia for medical
treatment, suffering from conditions such as tuberculosis, cholera and
meningitis.<br />
The tuberculosis clinic of Saibai is the only one in the Torres Strait but has run out of federal funding.<br />
That
has prompted an appeal from medical professionals like Professor Ian
Wronski, James Cook University's head of medicine, who says tuberculosis
is a re-emerging disease.<br />
"Bit by bit it will re-establish in the Torres, it may well be there now," he said.<br />
"Naturally
people from PNG move it into the Torres Strait and people from the
Torres Strait move it into the Cape, and we'll see tuberculosis
re-establish itself in Australia."<br />
Queensland Health Minister
Geoff Wilson was not available to talk about the Aniba case but earlier
addressed the issue of the tuberculosis clinics.<br />
"Health services
to PNG nationals are the responsibility of the Federal Government, but
rest assured the Queensland Government's made its views well known to
the Commonwealth," he said.<br />
"Only as of yesterday, I spoke with
Nicola Roxon about that at the conclusion of the Health Ministers
Council there in Melbourne."
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The District of South Fly shares its borders with Australia and
Indonesia. The obvious need not be mentioned; transport links in the
South Fly are pretty primitive. Women carrying babies and cargo
negotiate precarious single-log bridges in the jungle. Patients have to
be stretchered to aid posts and sub health centers that do not have
proper equipment and drugs.<br />
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Many die and are never taken back home for
burial due to the distance and risk of decomposition. Such has been the
case for villagers from Dimisisi village who succumbed to illness at
Upiara sub-health-center and have been buried at the nearby villages of
Kondobol and Bok.<br />
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Of course, Western Province is home to a major Public
Health catastrophe where in 2010 around 300 lives were lost to cholera.
Most of the victims were children and the elderly from South Fly. Public
Health woes continue to give a nasty headache to Queensland health
Authorities who have to cope with the patients who flock to Saibai
Island, in search of better Health services. Multi-drug resistant
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to pose a major threat to the population.<br />
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Despite
its rich natural resources and the existence of the Ok Tedi mine that
has bankrolled Papua New Guinea, Western Province continues to lag
behind in most aspects of development. The largest shareholder of Ok
Tedi, the PNG Sustainable Development Company Program, has failed in its
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Dr Jeannette Young, Chief Health Officer, Queensland Health :<br />
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"The work that the Australian Government has done through AusAID in Papua New Guinea, specifically in the South Fly Province, has now reduced the risk to Queenslanders and indeed all Australians of contracting extremely drug-resistant TB.<br />
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A number of years ago, the Queensland Government made the decision to wind back the clinics that were being held in Saibai and Boigu, two small islands in the Torres Strait very close to Papua New Guinea.<br />
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"Those clinics were set up to provide services to Papua New Guinean nationals who had TB. They would come across the short gap of ocean, across to Australia to access these services. Unfortunately, we know that those types of services are not the best services to put in place for people with TB.<br />
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The best service you can offer someone with TB, particularly in a third world country, is the World Health Organization auspice service of DOTS -- direct observed treatment. The reason that is the best service is that then you can make sure that the patients are receiving their treatment every single day for the full course that is required. If that doesn't occur we know that there is a real risk that drug resistance can emerge. And indeed extremely drug resistant TB could emerge.<br />
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"So by putting in place a DOTS auspice program into PNG itself, you can reduce that risk. And that's the work that the Commonwealth Government has been doing through AusAID now for the last year.<br />
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They have been setting up treatment services within the villages and they've also enhanced the service that's available at Daru -- the referral hospital for that part of Papua New Guinea.<br />
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"They've put in place a sea ambulance to take patients to Daru if they've needed, but more importantly they have got services available in the actual villages where the people live. So they don't need to travel across the Strait, through to the Torres Strait to obtain services. In the past those services, although very well intentioned of course, meant that at some times people wouldn't be able to make the trip and would miss out on their drugs for that period and there would be issues with it.<br />
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"So now with the new process in place I am confident that we are reducing the risk to Australians from obtaining TB.<br />
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We have had very, very few cases over the years of TB within the Torres Strait itself. Torres Strait people, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who live in those communities, of course can continue to access TB services as can any Queenslander. So I am confident all of these changes will actually reduce the risk to those people and to all Queenslanders.<br />
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"The World Health Organization recommends that wherever possible the DOTS program should be utilised -- direct observed treatment. That is where health workers actually monitor people taking their drugs every day during the treatment. Most sensitive TB regimes last around six months, so it's important that the people take the drugs every day for that six-month period and DOTS ensures that happens. <br />
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It's always much more difficult if you ask people to come to a clinic every six weeks or so, to pick up their medication because they mightn't be able to make the trip for whatever reason. Indeed we had some times when the border was closed and it was difficult for people to access the drugs. Also that they mightn't be aware of the importance of taking the drugs every single day if there isn't someone there to remind them. Which is why WHO recommends DOTS for all third world countries.<br />
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<br />Dan Collyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12996477469712215899noreply@blogger.com0South Fly, Papua New Guinea-9.3027278164130962 142.58056640625-9.5535413164130958 142.25784290625 -9.0519143164130966 142.90328990625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559467490289360866.post-40370663506493531082014-02-21T06:02:00.001+10:002014-02-21T06:02:02.457+10:00Sigabaduru Solar Power Project<a href="http://sigabaduru.blogspot.com/p/home.html?spref=bl">Sigabaduru Village: Sigabaduru</a>: Sigabaduru is a small PNG coastal village located 3km from Saibai Island. The village has a population of approx 300 people. The villag...<br />
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Sigabaduru is a small PNG coastal village located 3km from Saibai Island. The village has a population of approx 300 people. The villagers trade with many of the islands within the Torres Straits as they have traditional visitation rights.<br /><br />
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My experience with the people of Sigabaduru has been positive, they are hard working tough people who love to share their traditional knowledge and stories with anyone. I am proud to say I have a very strong connection with the village of Sigabaduru as my youngest daughter was born there. It has been very hard for me to find historical information in regards to the village, but my plan is to continue to add information to this blog so the villagers have a written history on the web.<br /><br />
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If you have any information you can add to this blog please contact me and I will add it to the posts. Below is a book I had found with several references about the village of Sigabaduru.<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The nightmare is here. Rampant use of antibiotics coupled with an explosion in global travel has led to superbugs spreading worldwide. Join us as we step into the lab with leading experts on antibiotic resistance, and listen to shocking stories of the health implications. Let’s face up to the horror of antibiotic resistance before it’s too late…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Joel Beclu got a superbug following routine treatment for prostate cancer. “I lost touch with reality because of the painkillers,” he recalls. Joel’s life was only saved by rare antibiotics imported from overseas. With the discovery of antibiotics In the 1930s and 40s we became superhuman - able to survive chemotherapy, transplant surgery and intensive care. The loss of effective antibiotics would jeopardise all of that, since as Molecular Bioscientist Professor Matt Cooper tells us “infectious disease kills more people than cancer.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without antibiotics surgery used to be the last line of defence against infection. Now the use of radical surgery is on the rise again. Nick Komilionis picked up a superbug in his home country of Greece. In the end all drugs failed him and his life was only saved by having his bowel surgically removed. “We had to take a pre-1940s approach to cure him,” admits his doctor Professor Lindsay Grayson. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Ricci was volunteering in a Calcutta slum when he was hit by a train, his leg badly mangled. He picked up superbug New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase or NDM1. Somehow David finally made it home to America where a toxic drug killed off the infection just before it killed him. “They had to pull me off right before most of my organs were unretainable.” Now he walks on a prosthetic leg, treating every day as though it was his last. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Every time we take an antibiotic we're giving the bug a chance to become a superbug” explains Matt Cooper. Countries like India are the “perfect petri-dish” for superbugs. Antibiotics are manufactured cheaply here and available over the counter. Waterways and even the soil are contaminated by waste from antibiotic manufacture. India's superbug researchers have been shunned for threatening a multi-billion dollar medical tourism industry. Dr Abdul Ghafur is one of the few Indian doctors prepared to speak out: “We can't wait and watch. We need urgent wartime measures to ration antibiotics.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TB was once thought a disease of the past. Australia used to hold TB originating in Papua New Guinea at bay by isolating it in island hospitals. Cathrina is currently Australia's only known case of Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis or XDR-TB. She made her way here from PNG after running out of TB drugs. Already five months in isolation in negative air pressure, her treatment could cost up to a million dollars. And she may not even survive. In remote PNG villages like Sigabaduru we track down other TB sufferers who have run out of drugs, just as Cathrina did. They are cases of superbug TB waiting to happen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sadly antibiotics are not cost-effective for drug companies. Those prepared to research new antibiotics are dwindling. And once a superbug gets out into the community, there may be no stopping it. As Thoracic Specialist Dr Stephen Vincent warns: “If it gets into the population, that's the disaster.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An authoritative, timely film, on an issue we ignore at our peril.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">This film shows; the extremely brutal history the native population of West Papua have endured for many decades under the oppressive Indonesian Military.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">How, to this day they continue to struggle for independence from Indonesia, with historical pieces showing the UN Shame vote: Act of 'NO' Choice which lead to their colonisation and the continued thief, of the West Papuan's natural resources.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Filmed undercover in West Papua 2000/1 with historical footage obtained from various sources.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">A film made by fPcN interCultural: www.fPcN-global.org/</span><br />
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<b>Keep an eye on this page for an important message from the people of Sigabaduru</b></h2>
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Sean was invited to be part of a joint patrol to Sigabaduru village involving Australian Customs, Australian Federal Police (AFP), Queensland Police, Papua New Guinea Customs, PNG Immigration and PNG Police.<br />
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The village of Sigabaduru is on the southern coast of Papua New Guinea's Western (or Fly River) Province and is less than three kilometres from the Australian island of Saibai.<br />
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We went there in quite speedy tenders launched from a patrol boat, the Australian Customs Vessel Holdfast Bay.<br />
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Unlike Saibai which has a wharf, electricity and running water, Sigabaduru - a village of 850 to 1,000 people - has no electricity, no running water and no wharf. That meant wading ashore.<br />
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Once on the beach Grant Smith, the Australian Federal Police officer who was in the team, handed over his gun to his PNG counterpart, a policewoman who held it until he was ready to return to Australian territory.<br />
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PHOTO: An Australian Customs officer meets with children in a PNG village during the patrol (ABC News: Sean Dorney)<br />
Sigabaduru is one of the villages covered by the Australia PNG Treaty whereby PNG citizens are allowed traditional entry into a number of Australian islands in the Torres Strait, free from the need for visas.<br />
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About 50,000 visits are made to Australian islands like Saibai each year by Papua New Guineans covered by the Treaty.<br />
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In fact, the day before we crossed over to Sigabaduru I ran into one of the men from that village, Nope Nama, who was on a shopping trip to the supermarket at another Australian island just off the PNG mainland, Dauan.<br />
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He bought some rice, flour, sugar and fruit juice. He was back on the PNG mainland before nightfall.<br />
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The idea of the joint cross border patrols is to maintain relationships with the communities and the trips provide the authorities in both Australia and PNG with invaluable intelligence.<br />
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The local people on both sides of the border know each other extremely well and so the Torres Strait is not the easy access route to Australia by potential asylum seekers or others that one might assume.<br />
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Liam Daly, the Australian Customs and Border Security team leader for the Torres Strait, told a village meeting in Sigabaduru that the Australian agencies involved in the patrol had a variety of interests.<br />
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"We're interested into [sic] the movement of people into Australia, the movement of people out of Australia," he said.<br />
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"Things like drugs, guns, money movement - that kind of stuff."<br />
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PHOTO: A meeting of the crew from Australian Customs vessel Holdfast Bay with the people in the PNG village of Sigabaduru (ABC News: Sean Dorney)<br />
The AFP's Grant Smith told the people how much Australia had appreciated information Papua New Guineans had provided in the past.<br />
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"I just want to say we really value the relationship we've established with your village here," he said.<br />
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"And because we're so close. PNG and Australia are so close here these Cross Border Patrols which are led by Customs, it's really about us working together across that border so that both communities are safe."<br />
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There was one complaint from the other side. Koeget Salee, a retired school teacher from Sigabaduru, said that his people had assisted in reporting people trying to illegally enter Australia - but it was expensive for people in PNG to do so.<br />
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He said that if he was reporting some suspicious movement to Saibai, he had to make an international phone call on his mobile even though Saibai was in full view just there across the water.<br />
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The joint border patrols also keep a watch on illegal fishing.<br />
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One issue that I reported on quite extensively when I was the ABC's Port Moresby correspondent in the 1990s was the trade of guns from Australian to the Torres Strait and marijuana from the PNG side.<br />
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Although there was mention of it during the Sigabaduru village meeting, it appears the trade has declined somewhat.<br />
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One of the reasons, I was told, is that hydroponic marijuana grown in Australia has taken market share off the PNG Highlands grown variety.<br />
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PHOTO: The Australian Customs vessel Holdfast Bay (ABC: Sean Dorney)<br />
I asked the Queensland Police officer in charge in the Torres Strait Patrol Group about the trade.<br />
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"I wouldn't say that it doesn't occur," Inspector David Lacey said.<br />
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"Certainly our intelligence indicates that it is not as prevalent as perhaps it was in the past. I think one of the reasons is our continued cross border patrols with our federal counterparts.<br />
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"We have a very good connection of networks on the islands these days with the Movement Monitoring Officers employed by the Federal Government attached to each of the outer islands.<br />
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"Also we have Torres Strait Islands Police Support Officers currently on the islands so that network of contacts, I think, significantly reduces the amount of activity that goes on, specifically with regards to large-scale importations."<br />
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