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mich interessert allerdings mehr, dass die chinesen jetzt schon mit privatjet einfliegen.
und wenn mich meine augen nicht täuschen,. erkenne ich chinesen die wegen panguna schon einmal da waren. stehen die unter zeitdruck ?
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Zudem: Die Verbissenheit und die Borniertheit ihres Vorgehens könnte ein Indiz dafür sein, dass sie sich auf verlorenem Posten wähnen.
Besonders köstlich: Die Anmerkungen auf
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Der Intelligenz sind Grenzen gesetzt, der Dummheit leider nicht!
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Bougainville – what have we learned? There are those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happened.
With sufficient time for everyone to dissect the traumatic 20th century history of Bougainville, let’s examine the outcome. Like the Roman auguries who determined the future after dismembering a carcass, we should now be able to make some fairly apposite predictions. Yet are we able to glimpse the future by reviewing the past? It seemed clear to even the Roman augurs that their determinations needed to be mindful of popular sentiment lest they lose their appeal to the masses.
So what simple lessons could be learned from Bougainville?
Better consultation with the stakeholders averts future violence. Comprehensive planning might prevent future administrative problems. Imposition of foreign dominance creates local dissatisfaction.
Are any of the above any better understood now than they were in the mid-20th century? If not, then are the people of Bougainville any better off now than they were? Will they be better off in the future after the trauma of the last thirty years? Will they be any better off than any other South Pacific people?
If the answer is not a clear cut ‘yes’, then Bougainville people should ask, ‘Why not?’
So are Bougainville stakeholders now being consulted and informed about their future? Has the threat of foreign dominance actually been banished or is that an illusion? Can those who now offer plans for the future have any guarantee these plans will work?
Isn’t Bougainville really only a microcosm of PNG and many other countries that actually have very little control over their own destiny? Sure the riches that may still lie under the ground, on top of it or in the surrounding oceans could help alleviate poverty and suffering.
Yet who can ensure that the benefit of these riches won’t be snaffled up by corruption and malfeasance? Also, the development of these resources must still rest with foreign capital and therefore foreign control.
So have the people of Bougainville merely swapped one set of problems for yet another? Have the deaths and misery of thousands just been in vain? Are those who are now in control any better to manage than those of the past?
Ol barata na susa. Husat isavi? Brothers and sisters, do you really know?
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In an interview with Copper Investing News, Yu-Dee Chang principal at ACE Investment Strategists Inc. attributed the recent volatility of copper prices to the “shift of investment demand in copper from small speculators to larger hedge funds.”
Hedge funds have an active influence on pricing. Likewise, larger hedge funds can subject prices to steep swings. According to Hedge Fund Research Inc., assets held by the hedge fund industry are approaching $2.2 trillion. While hedge funds have had their reach in the copper market for years, larger hedge funds are now overshadowing the smaller speculators who used to be the market’s primary investment participants.
Copper’s rapid recovery from the recession started off as a demand-pushed rally due to an aggressive stockpiling program by top consumer China. As investors focused on China’s seemingly insatiable thirst for copper and a dwindling supply picture, hedge funds built their net-long positions (bets on higher prices), pushing the bull run for copper into full steam.
Fund purchases most definitely played a part in copper’s ascent to a record price but, on the other side of the scale, when funds decrease their long-positions, the price of copper can also spiral downwards. Fund managers use technical data to make purchasing decisions, so their “demand” has a real world correlation. However, the funds still introduce volatility to the copper market.
Investors who hold positions, who don’t physically need the good, can contribute to rapid price swings. This is because these positions can easily be abandoned with little consequence. Furthermore, as the amount of hedge funds with assets tied to copper increases and the small speculators decrease, prices are more likely to swing as hedge fund transactions are typically “large volume.” Exacerbating conditions even further, some hedge funds mimic each other’s behavior. For instance, if fund X knows fund Y has liquidated, and fund Y has been very successful at making investment calls, fund X will follow suit.
There is no doubt that fund interest has boosted copper’s price and contributed to the metal’s volatility. There are many examples from just this past spring of how prices fall when funds reduce their net-long positions. However, it is impossible to quantify just how large of an impact the increased fund interest has had on prices. Copper prices are influenced by many other factors, including stockpiles, demand strength, economic sentiment, exchange rates, and speculative interest. However, as long as a fund holds its long positions on copper, prices will stay higher for longer. By the same token, if a fund reduces its long positions, copper prices will experience a rapid downward correction.
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By GORETHY KENNETH
THE Foreign Affairs Department in Waigani has advised it is in the dark about the Autonomous Bougainville Governments’ arrangements in getting Chinese companies to the region to conduct business.
The department’s Asia Desk, headed by Samuel Pulup said that the office was never consulted and given the chance for an input.
Every week, groups of Chinese are travelling to Bougainville for business and the issue has been a question mark for the ordinary Bougainvilleans who don’t have time to listen to talk back or radio programs because boom box industry has taken over their ears.
The Foreign Affairs Department Secretary Michael Maue and the Chinese Embassy in Port Moresby were asked to respond and comment on reports of the seven Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) signed in China early this year by the ABG and Chinese tycoons to pave way for impact projects and economic development to take place in Bougainville through joint ventures with Chinese companies.
They were also asked to comment on Asians, specifically Chinese, flocking to Bougainville every week. Chinese Embassy Economic Advisor Jhao Jhungen said although they were not aware of these arrangements, he claimed it was done on a private business arrangement by the ABG and the Chinese companies involved and they had nothing to say, but warned that these companies must still abide by local laws, meaning PNG and ABG laws.
Foreign Affairs, on the other hand, advised they were also in the dark about the MOUs signed as they were never consulted, but only reading about it through the papers.
They said these arrangements “should still have made the shelves of Waigani” so they are aware, just in case something happens and that ABG was still very much part of PNG and had to abide by the business laws and laws of PNG.
“We are not aware…Foreign Affairs was never consulted, there was never any input from our office,” the officials said.
“We are only reading about it from the papers, in fact the chief of migration should be aware of this because they are the ones to clear the planes, the travellers and check the visas…in any case our department should still be consulted and briefed.
“They said that although it is a private arrangement between China and Bougainville, the PNG Government still has to be advised and notified because ABG is still part of PNG.
“The ABG has been approached for the past three weeks to comment on the issue but our attempts were unsuccessful.”
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200 men loot Chinese shop on Buka Island
By GORETHY KENNETH
MORE than 200 men armed with knives and guns from all over Bougainville looted a Chinese shop in Buka in the early hours of yesterday morning.
Bougainville police said they could not do much as there were men from all over the island looting and taking anything they could lay their hands on - literally leaving the shop empty.
The men, mostly youths, came in numbers at about two o’clock in the early hours of yesterday with almost 10 dinghies waiting to transport their “early hour shopping goods” to their destinations - Kokopau, Sohano and nearby Buka town areas.
These is the second break and enter of the week, the first one was on Tuesday night where a group of men stormed another Chinese shop in town and stole mobiles and other expensive items from the shop.
The Post-Courier spoke to two men who were part of the group last night who said the men are planning another break and enter on another shop also right in the middle of Buka town.
They said this was a message for the ABG and the leaders who are not helping the ordinary Bougainville youths in empowering them with projects to make their living.
They are also claiming that they will not stop unless the leaders come out clear on their laws on making business in Buka, Arawa and Buin.
While this is happening, late Wednesday, about 6pm, a private jet carrying a high-powered Chinese delegation touched down in Buka for impact project meetings with President John Momis and his Government on the way forward for Bougainville.
The paper has not been privy to information on the visit, even after two visits and calls to the Parliament for comments.
But the Post-Courier was reliably told the high-powered delegation is here to finalise arrangements on the seven MOUs signed in China and to proceed with development ideas on the latter, with mining being the top of the list.
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Your Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen.
I am delighted that High Commissioner Charles Lepani is here this evening. He is a good friend of Australia and works tirelessly to improve awareness and understanding of PNG amongst Australians, as well as build the people to people connections that are important to a healthy bilateral relationship.
Papua New Guinea is an enormously complex nation.
It is regarded as the most linguistically diverse country on earth with more than 800 languages spoken by its 6.5 million citizens, with over 80 per cent of its population existing on subsistence farming.
Development in Papua New Guinea is in part hostage to its geography.
Many of its local communities are some of the most remote and inaccessible in the world.
As a country, it is less urbanised than all others, except Burundi.
The reality of this was brought home during my recent trip to Papua New Guinea, during which I had the opportunity to visit the first LNG project in the country currently under construction in the Southern Highlands.
The partners in this $15 billion project include Exxon Mobil as operator, Oil Search, Santos and the PNG Government.
We flew into Moro, and were required to take helicopters to reach the deepest parts of the Highlands region – the usual mode of transport for people, equipment and supplies connected with the LNG project.
It is a land of unbelievable beauty with impressive mountains and cliff faces rising up out of dense lush rainforest.
Wild rivers wind their way through deep, rugged gorges.
The sheer logistics of constructing massive LNG facilities in this remote and seemingly untouched location must be a nightmare.
Yet, I had asked an Exxon representative how the project would rate in terms of difficulties, compared with other similar projects in developing countries around the world, with a score of 1 being easy and a score of 10 being extremely difficult.
Interestingly he gave this project a very positive score of two from the location and logistical perspective, but a score of nine for the social and cultural challenges.
In other words, the mammoth task of constructing conditioning plants, production facilities, airstrips, roads, accommodation camps for thousands of workers, as well as a 750 km pipeline across the mountains and a 400 km seabed pipeline to Port Moresby, was relatively manageable compared with the task of managing the demands, fears, grievances and expectations of the landowners and local villagers.
It must also be noted that it is a land where geography and limited state capacity have combined to ensure that government services and infrastructure are noticeable mainly for their absence.
This pretty well sums up the two sides to the Papua New Guinea story.
On the one hand, Papua New Guinea is at an important juncture in its development.
It is on the verge of a mining and resource boom that should generate massive foreign exchange inflows with the potential to radically alter the course of its economic and social development.
With the number of large mineral resource projects soon to come online, there is a sense of optimism and expectation that a new beginning for the country is just around the corner.
If current forecasts are realised, the mining and resource projects, planned and underway, will more than double the size of the PNG economy within a decade.
While there has been over 20 years of mineral exploration in the country, the PNG LNG project alone is expected to double the country’s gross domestic product and triple its exports.
It is the largest private sector investment ever undertaken in Papua New Guinea and is expected to produce over nine trillion cubic feet of gas over the course of its life.
The first deliveries of LNG are scheduled to take place in 2014. Supply contracts have already been signed with key buyers in Japan, Korea and China.
According to an economic impact study by ACIL Tasman, the project:
“has the potential to transform the economy of Papua New Guinea, boosting GDP and export earnings, providing a major increase in government revenue, royalty payments to landowners, creating employment opportunities during construction and operation, and providing a catalyst to further gas-based industry development.”
The sheer size of this project can be gauged by the fact that PNG’s gross domestic product will rise in real terms from 8.65 billion Kina in 2006 to an average of 18.2 billion Kina.
With the economy predicted to grow by over 8 per cent, there is a lot to be excited about over PNG’s economic performance.
The current period of economic growth – the longest since Independence – has had a beneficial effect on the country’s poverty levels, which are estimated to have declined by more than 8 per cent between 2003 and 2008.
That is one side of the PNG story.
On the other hand, enormous social development challenges still exist.
Currently ranked 137th out of 169 countries on the United Nations Human Development Index, Papua New Guinea faces significant challenges, with high poverty rates, poor life expectancy and high infant and maternal mortality.
The population is increasing at 2.7 per cent per year.
Unemployment is high and civil unrest is growing.
According to the World Bank, gross national income in PNG in 2007 – when measured for purchasing power parity – was $1,870.
This placed it second last in a list of select East Asia and Pacific economies, only slightly in front of Cambodia.
It ranked the lowest in terms of life expectancy at birth and access to an improved water source.
According to the Asian Development Bank, only one in ten Papuan New Guineans have access to electricity.
In 2010, the average time spent attending school in PNG was 4.3 years.
According to AusAID, “PNG is unlikely to achieve any of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015”.
Outside the urban centres where government capacity is more pronounced, it is in the remote and regional areas that the effects of poverty are felt most heavily.
Extending government services and infrastructure beyond urban centres must be one of the biggest challenges facing PNG if poverty is to be reduced and living standards improved.
This is particularly important if improvements are to be achieved in child and maternal health, because according to figures published by the World Health Organization, 86 per cent of births occurred in rural areas in 2006.
While progress has been achieved in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS, much more work still needs to be done.
The prevalence rate in PNG currently stands around 1 per cent.
However, such was the initial concern at its growing prevalence that parallels were drawn with countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where the disease is rife.
Papua New Guinea also faces the difficult task of strengthening its institutions and levels of good governance.
While the PNG LNG project will bring huge benefits for Papua New Guinea, it also presents a unique set of challenges that will test the institutional capacity of the government.
The dangers of “Dutch disease” are well known to countries with a dominant energy and mineral resource sector.
Papua New Guinea’s reliance on export earnings from its energy and mineral resources leaves it vulnerable to a potential downturn in the global economy or international commodity prices.
The 2009 PNG Budget papers for example, foreshadowed a 25 per cent decline in domestic tax revenues brought about by the Global Financial Crisis.
Promoting growth in other sectors of the economy is therefore crucial. This means reinvesting earnings of its mining boom back into the economy, in the form of increased recurrent and development expenditure.
With revenues flooding in, there is also the concern that political will for further reform in other areas will falter.
As Aaron Batten has written for the East Asia Forum, “those provinces which have recorded the largest earnings from resource extraction have been plagued by the weakest governance, the poorest levels of service delivery and in many cases violence.”
Strong fiscal management will be required to control the effects of the booming resource sector, as further upward pressure is placed on already high inflation levels.
Inflation has the negative effect of driving up the cost of essential household staples, making it harder for individuals and families to escape the poverty trap.
A rising currency also damages the competitiveness of local exports, such as in the cash-crop sector, making it more difficult for growers to participate in, and benefit from, the global economy.
Reducing this pressure through the creation of sovereign wealth funds is a positive step.
As the past has shown us however, these funds must be properly managed.
Given the expected sharp rise in the country’s income, with the potential to increase imports, decrease exports and affect the non-resource sector, it was apparent from my discussions with PNG officials that they are anxious to avoid the symptoms of “Dutch disease”.
It is encouraging that the PNG Government has set up a joint Treasury-Bank of PNG working group to consider options for the establishment of a sovereign wealth fund to manage the expected large revenues generated by the LNG project.
The lessons from the 1990s mineral boom are harsh.
The increased export earnings at that time caused the exchange rate to appreciate.
The large incomes earned by the workers, the landowners and the government led to a consumption boom and inflation spike.
Mismanagement, waste, corruption, excessive spending and a collapse in commodity prices all combined to deny PNG the long term benefits that should have been derived from that boom.
Sectors of the economy including agriculture are still recovering from the negative effects.
There is a current debate as to whether the sovereign wealth funds will be established onshore or offshore but I understand that the Government has decided there will be three integrated and coordinated funds – a stabilisation fund, an infrastructure fund and a future generations (savings) fund.
An ever present challenge is the Wantok system, which acts as a social security safety net where people are obliged to support their relatives and tribal groups.
I met Dame Carol Kidu the Queensland born wife of the late PNG Chief Justice Sir Buri Kidu, a delightful woman and deeply committed to PNG.
She married and moved to PNG in the late 1960s.
After Sir Buri’s death, Dame Carol was elected to parliament in 1997 and is currently the only female member of the PNG parliament.
We discussed the challenge of a work-life balance for busy MPs but she put it all in perspective as she explained that she supports many of her late husband’s relatives, and as a matter of routine, arrives home from a busy day in her electorate to cook an evening dinner for 20 or more.
The Wantok system is ingrained in PNG society but there is a need to build understanding that it cannot be used as an excuse for corruption or abuse of power.
Next year’s election will be a test for the PNG. With the ill health of Sir Michael Somare, there is an increased level of uncertainty surrounding the outcome.
While the Coalition is aware of the many challenges facing PNG, we are confident that they can be overcome.
From my perspective, our relationship with Papua and New Guinea must be one of our highest foreign policy priorities.
Australia and Papua New Guinea do enjoy a special relationship.
Bound together by the closeness of our shores and united by history, the destinies of our two countries are tightly connected.
As Papua New Guinea prepares to enter this unique period in its history, the Coalition believes that Australia must stand firmly alongside the PNG Government and its people in their efforts to fulfil the country’s immense potential and lay claim to its rightful status as a natural leader in the Pacific Ocean region.
I believe that we should look to PNG to place a greater investment in its own development and uphold standards of good governance and accountability.
On the international stage, I believe that Australia should work more closely with the PNG Government as stakeholders in the region to promote stability and foster greater levels of prosperity.
During my visit I met with the recently appointed Foreign Minister Ano Pala – which turned out to be his first diplomatic meeting with an overseas representative.
He has a long-standing love of Australia and even trained with Hawthorn AFL Club as a 17-year-old.
He rightly describes Australia and PNG as permanent partners.
It must be a partnership founded on mutual respect and shared benefits.
A Coalition government will strive to reset the relationship based on an economic and strategic partnership rather than aid donor and recipient.
It is time to leave behind notions from past eras in our relationship.
Like all relationships, we have experienced our share of highs and lows.
The point is not whether we have our differences, but how we manage them that matters.
At these times, we must avoid any tendency to revert to old labels and stereotypes which undermines our ability to further strengthen our ties.
There must be a firm focus on self sufficiency rather than aid dependency.
In the same way that PNG is entering a unique period in its development, we are approaching a turning point in our bilateral relationship.
Australia’s development assistance to Papua New Guinea, estimated to be $482 million in 2011-12, has declined as percentage of PNG’s GDP over the years.
With the revenue from resource projects set to boost its economy even further, Australian aid will play a comparatively lesser role in PNG’s development.
The Coalition supports the current focus of Australia’s development assistance on the crucial areas of health and education.
We believe that as the PNG Government takes on a larger role in the delivery of services and conditions improve, Australian assistance should progressively be directed towards areas that will help facilitate economic growth.
The former Howard Government recognised this crucial connection between economic growth and poverty reduction.
Training the workforce is a major priority and Australia is playing a part, with support for the education system more broadly, but more particularly with the establishment in mid 2007 of the Australia-Pacific Technical College.
An initiative of the Howard Government, the Technical College, with locations in Port Moresby as well as other Pacific Islands, offers students the opportunity to gain Australian standard skills and qualifications, including in the automotive, manufacturing, construction and electrical trades,
I met with a number of the students during my visit, and they were very keen to be among the many thousands who will be employed on PNG resource projects.
In 2007, the Howard Government established the Enterprise Challenge Fund for the Pacific and South East Asia to provide grants to small businesses that had viable commercial projects with demonstrable benefits to the community.
The Enterprise Challenge Fund aimed to stimulate growth and employment opportunities, and ensure that the most disadvantaged members of society had an opportunity to participate in the economy.
I visited a small business in Port Moresby which used a grant from the Enterprise Challenge Fund to purchase processing equipment from India, and you can now buy various products at gourmet stores in Sydney, including coffee beans, vanilla pods, and cinnamon sticks, among other things.
It was building up a successful export business and the benefits from the grant have flowed on to the hundreds of growers and their families that the small business directly supports.
The Asian Development Bank and the International Finance Corporation are also working in this space to promote growth and expand access to financial services.
Resource projects are providing opportunities for small and medium businesses to increase their production and distribution.
Providing access to capital is ultimately a job for the private sector, however our aid program can fill a gap as the business sector matures.
Further, I believe Australia should redouble its efforts to negotiate the Pacific Agreement for Closer Economy Relations, otherwise known as PACER Plus.
This agreement presents a significant opportunity for Australia and Pacific Island countries to cement a closer economic relationship that will promote economic growth, open up markets, provide employment and raise standards of living.
The Institute for International Trade states that PACER Plus could also address barriers to economic integration, promote public and private sector investment and build capacity in trade-related areas.
While trade liberalisation is never easy, the results are worth it.
This also applies to the telecommunications sector in PNG.
In its submission to a Senate Committee inquiry on the Economic Challenges facing Papua New Guinea and the island states of the southwest pacific, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade stated that the liberalisation of the mobile phone market had “expanded coverage and reduced consumer prices significantly, providing a boost to small business”.
Creating an environment that is capable of sustaining long-term economic growth is vital to Papua New Guinea with its young population and high birth rate.
Moving our relationship from a development to an economic focus will require action by the PNG Government to strengthen business conditions in the country.
In areas where Australian help is still needed to provide service delivery, we must find better ways to do it.
We should better recognise the work that the private sector plays in overseas development.
The role of public private partnerships features strongly in the US development program.
According to USAID, the successful implementation of activities often requires expertise in marketing, recruiting, training, logistics, manufacturing, and policy and advocacy, “Because these are core competencies in business many companies have personnel who excel in these areas”.
The energy and mineral resource companies in PNG are already active participants in the development area.
These companies have provided new infrastructure, roads and bridges, that otherwise would not exist.
Oil Search for example is reaching out to local villages, providing them with services such as school, as well as basic medical facilities and clinics raising awareness of HIV/AIDS.
If the United Nations Millennium Development Goals are to be realised in PNG, these companies will continue to play an important role.
Their networks are not only more efficient than the government, they reach further into the country where living conditions are at their lowest.
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In 2010 for example, Oil Search was nominated by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, as a Principal Recipient for its program in PNG.
Other avenues outside government channels, such as churches, local community groups and non-government organisations, must also be leveraged.
Churches already provide health care and education services in PNG.
The Coalition has in the past been highly critical of the Australian Government’s reliance on technical assistance.
According to a review by the Australian National Audit Office in 2009, Australia spent nearly double the proportion of its development assistance on consultants compared to the OECD average.
Evidence before the 2010 Review of the PNG-Australia Development Cooperation Treaty, suggested “that the capacity building through advisers model is not working.”
This assistance has dismayed many people in PNG with reports of excessive salaries for consultants being seen as ‘boomerang aid’. I note that while the Australian government has taken steps to reduce the number of consultants there is a need for skills and expertise in governance and administration to be institutionalised.
From my meetings in PNG, it was clear that there is support for the continuation of the Strongim Gavman Program, which has been credited with achieving reform and improved levels of governance in key areas such as treasury and finance.
This initiative grew out of the Enhanced Cooperation Program initiated by the former Howard Government.
This process should be strengthened further, with Australian funds used to support placement opportunities for select Papua New Guineans in all levels of government in Australia.
Increased opportunity for twinning would improve the transfer of knowledge and skills that are needed in areas such as basic service delivery, research and policy formation, and public service management.
With an improving economy, PNG will have an opportunity to better equip its defence forces. Australia must be alert to ensuring that it remains the defence partner of choice.
As each year passes, Australia loses part of a generation of people with a deep knowledge and connection to PNG from its pre-independence days.
Australia and PNG must work to build a new generation of networks that will carry our relationship forward.
This includes building relationships with current and future leaders in government, in business and the community.
This must be driven from the highest levels of the Australian Government.
Another possible area of closer collaboration is sport.
Like Australia, sport cuts across cultural, social and geographic barriers.
Rugby League in particular has achieved an almost religious status.
Time and time again I was struck by the influence of Queensland's rugby league stars – from young boys throughout the Southern Highlands wearing maroon jerseys to the extensive coverage in local newspapers – it was overwhelming.
When I mentioned to some local journalists at a dinner in Port Moresby hosted by our High Commissioner that perhaps we should reinstate the International Schoolboy Rugby League competition, I opened up a fierce debate about how soon PNG could have a team in the NRL.
I met with the manager of a huge construction company who related how his 2000 workers refused to go back to work on the day of a visit to the site by Mal Meninga, such was their determination to see and hopefully touch their idol.
I was told by astute observers of PNG culture that the rugby league State of Origin Series in particular has the power to unite the nation like no other issue.
A deeply tribal country with its 800 languages, where family and tribe loyalty comes first and last, it seems the people of PNG are at one in their love of rugby league.
It was reported to me that when PNG trialled a preferential voting system, voting slips bearing the faces of Queensland icons, Mal Meninga, Wally Lewis and Darren Lockyer, were used as the mock candidates, rather than local politicians, to be sure of a strong voter turnout for the test run.
Some people were reportedly deeply disappointed to find that they had not in fact voted in Meninga as national leader.
I think that we should harness that immense goodwill and develop a sport and diplomacy initiative within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Opening up new opportunities for dialogue and increasing the level of trust between our two nations will be important as we deal with issues that are likely to emerge in the coming years.
One such issue will be the referendum on Bougainville’s future to be held at a time between 2015 and 2020.
The Coalition strongly supports ongoing dialogue between the PNG Government and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville and stands ready to assist in anyway possible to ensure that goodwill is maintained.
As permanent partners and close friends, Australia must be committed to helping the people of PNG along the road to a more sustainable and prosperous future.
With its economy expected to grow sharply in the coming years, PNG is well positioned to take hold of its destiny.
This will require strong leadership and an unrelenting determination on the part the PNG government to succeed.
The Coalition is confident that PNG has the potential to make this transformation.
Under the Coalition policy of appointing a Minister for International Development Assistance, I expect that PNG will be the primary focus for that Ministry as we use development assistance and access to our markets to expand opportunities for growth and employment.
Ultimately, it will be our actions not our words, that will demonstrate beyond doubt that Papua New Guinea is one of Australia’s top foreign policy priorities.
I thank the Lowy Institute for the opportunity to speak this evening about resetting our relationship with Papua New Guinea so that the people of our two countries believe that we are equal partners in a joint destiny.
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von Tomke Hansmann
Freitag 29.07.2011, 12:38 Uhr
New York (BoerseGo.de) - Kupfer legt zum Wochenschluss entgegen dem Trend bei anderen Metallen weiter zu, tut sich aber nach wie vor mit der Überwindung der 9.800er-USD-Marke (je Tonne) schwer.
Grund für den Preisanstieg sind anhaltend schlechte Nachrichten vom Kupfermarkt. Der Streik in der größten Mine Escondida in Chile währt nun schon eine Woche und eine Einigung mit dem Betreiber BHP Billiton ist nicht in Sicht. Dieser meldete jüngst, dass es von dort keine Transporte mehr gäbe.
„Kurzfristig gebe es Versorgungsengpässe angesichts des Streiks in der Escondida-Mine und längerfristig wird eine steigende Nachfrage aus China erwartet“, sagte Frank Lesh, ein Händler bei FuturePath Trading LLC in Chicago gegenüber der Nachrichtenagentur Bloomberg. Hinzu komme Nachfrage seitens der US-amerikanischen und der japanischen Autoindustrie, so Lesh.
Gegen 12:35 Uhr MESZ notiert Kupfer bei 9.770,00 USD je Tonne.
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und das problem ist doch immer das gleiche:
möchtegern gutmenschen in übersee sagen:
das land und die leute sollen geschützt werden, besonders von den bösen minenfirmen.
aber was sollen diese leute denn essen und wie sollen sie leben. habt ihr mal die hütten gesehen in denen die leben.
ich habe auch eine romantisierte vorstellung der welt und wünsche mir keine umweltsverschmutzung.
und das ist im übrigen auch position des ESBC, siehe ablehnende stellungnahme zur unterwasserdeponierung.
frau elsie von mining&communities zwitschert sich nen gordon gin oder 2 oder 5 hinter die bluse und dann träumt sie weiter von ihrer schönen welt, in der die eingeborenen kokosnüsse essen und nackt am strand leben.
die realität können wir auf den bildern erahnen.
und während sich elsie im 6. gin den sinn ihrer existenz erkennt, wird wieder jemand in bougainville erschossen.
mir jedenfalls ist klarer denn je: die bougis können sich nur selbst helfen. sie brauchen lösungen und keine bedenkenträger und solche leute wie mining und communities braucht wirklich niemand.
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und wen interessiert das wirklich?? niemanden , was machen wir Deutschen einfach??, klar wir ziehen dort weg , vielleicht sollte das den Jungs da unten mal einer erzählen
die reden über jeden Grashalm,anstatt ihr Land voranzubringen
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India's new high commissioner to PNG says the country's vast swathes of arable land, fertile soil and abundant fresh water could be put to use to grow food for India's burgeoning population of a billion plus.
India has made tremendous advances in agricultural sciences, which has helped drive down hunger and poverty considerably. This knowledge could be employed to boost agriculture in Papua New Guinea, the new envoy has said.
Trade between the two countries at present is just about US$120 million, with India exporting about US$20 million worth of goods and services and importing about US$100 million. The two countries plan to ramp up trade to half a billion US dollars in the next few years.
Although India's food security is no longer an issue that it used to be several decades ago, thanks to successful scientific agricultural initiatives, the country suffers from poor post-harvest storage and processing infrastructure, thereby losing as much as 40 percent of its produce to spoilage.
But more alarmingly, it suffers from depleting water tables and is largely dependent on natural rainfall for its crop growing. Climate change driven alterations in rainfall patterns is a real threat to India's agriculture. It therefore makes sense for the country to get into agricultural collaborations with countries like Papua New Guinea where resources are in abundance.
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Sieht so aus als ob die Chinesen schon einen Schritt weiter seien als BOC.
Das dürfte gleichzeitig chinesische Unterstützung für AGB Und BCL beim nächsten JSB-Meeting bedeuten um die Miningpower zu übertragen und das Miningmoratorium zu liften
By Aloysius Laukai
ABG Vice President and Chairman of the Bougainville China Cooperation Committee, PATRICK NISIRA says Bougainville needs to look at what has happened in Papua New Guinea and adjust its approaches on investment in the region.
He was speaking at a meeting with a Chinese Business delegation that arrived in Bougainville on a private Chartered Jet this morning.
MR. NISIRA said that in PNG there are a lot of resources but the owners do not benefit from these resources.
He said that based on these scenarios, the ABG wants to build capacity in all areas simultaneously.
MR. NISIRA said that the ABG welcomes investors from China and any other country who want to invest on Bougainville’s terms.
He thanked the Businessmen for their interest in investing in the region.
The group will return tomorrow.
Ist es vllt. ein Fehler, wenn man immer wieder D mit BOU zu vergleichen versucht? Ich hatte früher schon mal geschrieben, dass offensichtlich auch hier in diesem Board – nach meiner Meinung – manch einer möglicherweise schon davon gelesen, allerdings noch immer nicht verinnerlicht hat, wie unterschiedlich die Kulturen dieser beiden Länder sind mit der Folge, dass auch gesellschaftliche Ziele ganz anders definiert sind / werden.
Du @sumoey fragst „und wen interessiert das wirklich?? niemanden , was machen wir Deutschen einfach??, klar wir ziehen dort weg , vielleicht sollte das den Jungs da unten mal einer erzählen“
Die Antwort wirst Du inzwischen gelesen haben: “Bougainville is not a big island. Our land cannot be stretched.”
Will hier keine ollen Kamellen aufwärmen, aber all dies führt wieder zu einer Frage zurück, die ich schon vor Monaten aufgeworfen habe und die für mich noch immer nicht zufriedenstellend beantwortet ist:
Wie viele der Bougainviller wollen eigentlich tatsächlich die Unabhängigkeit und sind bereit, dafür auch unerwünschte tiefere Einschnitte / größere Veränderungen auf ihrer Insel / in ihrem Leben hinzunehmen und mitzutragen?
Oder, anders ausgedrückt: Wie viele der Bougainviller interessiert die Unabhängigkeit in Wirklichkeit gar nicht? Wie viele sind mit den „Hütten, in denen sie leben“, wie viele sind mit ihren Lebensumständen, so wie sie sind, zufrieden und wollen sie gar nicht verändert oder, wie wir hier in D sagen würden „verbessert“ haben? Ich habe keine Antwort darauf … wenn jemand helfen kann, bitte!
Und außerdem: Skepsis und Widerstände gegen Großprojekte von, wie Du @raphael sie nennst, „Bedenkenträgern“ gibt es, wie wir alle wissen, zunehmend auch bei uns in D. Könnte ein Grund dafür der sein, dass wachsende Teile der Bevölkerung den Eindruck gewonnen bzw. mittlerweile erkannt haben, dass die Politik Prämissen für zu treffende Entscheidungen lange Zeit „moneypoliert“ hat, um das Volk hinter sich zu scharen und, um es vorsichtig auszudrücken, gleichzeitig dem einen oder anderen noch einen kleinen persönlichen Vorteil zu verschaffen?
Beispiele dafür, die über Stadtgrenzen hinweg bekannt sind, gibt es inzwischen mehr als genug. Und diejenigen, die nicht großräumig publik werden, weil sie sich nur in kleinen bis mittelgroßen Kommunen abspielen, sind noch viel zahlreicher.
Insofern kann ich gut verstehen, dass auf Bougainville auch zweifelnde Fragen wie diese gestellt werden: „Can those who now offer plans for the future have any guarantee these plans will work?“ “Are those who are now in control any better to manage than those of the past?“ “Who can ensure that the benefit of these riches won’t be snaffled up by corruption and malfeasance?“
Das Ignorieren solcher Fragen ist in meinen Augen nicht sinnvoll; denn man kann die Kehrseite einer Medaille nicht beseitigen, indem man sie nicht anschaut.
Deshalb bin ich nach wie vor mehr als gespannt, ob und wie Momis und andere Befürworter diese u. ä. Fragen ihrem Volk überzeugend beantworten können. Davon wird der langfristige Erfolg des Projektes „Reopening“ wesentlich mit abhängen. Ich halte diesen Erfolg für möglich, sonst wäre ich nicht in beträchtlichem Maße investiert, hüte mich aber davor, meine Entscheidungen auf der Grundlage von Hoffnungen zu treffen, denn an der Börse ist die Hoffnung nie mehr gewesen als die armselige Schwester der Gewissheit …
Eine gute Woche!
Berlenbach: Das will ich so
nicht sagen, Gold ist ja mehr
eine Währung und Kupfer ein
Industriemetall. Aber Kupfer
besitzt ein enormes Potenzial.
Es deutet alles darauf hin, dass
die Kupfernachfrage schneller
steigen wird als das Angebot.
Gilt das auch, wenn die Wirtschaft
in China lahmt?
Berlenbach: Ja. Auch weniger
Wachstum in China bedeutet
immer noch Wachstum. Aktuell
stockt China die Kupfervorräte
übrigens wieder auf. Klar,
es wird heftige Schwankungen
geben – wie bei allen Rohstoffen.
Doch auf lange Sicht geht
der Trend weiter nach oben.
Bis 2023 wird sich die chinesische
Kupfernachfrage wohl
verdoppeln. In den gängigen
Marktprognosen ist die zusätzliche
Nachfrage aus neuen
Anwendungsgebieten zudem
überhaupt nicht berücksichtigt.
In einem Hybridauto
wird zum Beispiel die dreifache
Menge Kupfer verarbeitet
wie in einem herkömmlichen
Auto. Für Windturbinen und
Solaranlagen brauchen sie je
Megawatt Nennleistung etwa
vier Tonnen Kupfer.
Und das Angebot?
Berlenbach: Die größten
Minen werden im Schnitt seit
53 Jahren ausgebeutet, ihr
Gestein enthält immer weniger
Kupfer, im Schnitt fiel der
Gehalt seit 1990 von 1,6 auf
aktuell 1,1 Prozent. Unterstellt
man ein jährliches Nachfragewachstum
von drei Prozent,
werden bis 2020 über 40 zusätzliche
Projekte mit einer
Jahresproduktion von 150 000
Tonnen Kupfer benötigt.
Heute existieren auf der Welt
insgesamt gerade 28 Minen,
die auf diese Menge kommen.
Viel interessanter fand ich die Meldung letzte Woche, in der 200 Jungendliche ein Geschäft in Buka geplündert haben und neue solcher Aktionen geplant haben, bis ihnen die Möglichkeit gegeben wird, selbst für ihren Lebensunterhalt zu sorgen.
Das zeigt das wahre Problem vor Ort, das die Bevölkerung umtreibt. Die einfachste und schnellste Lösung war und ist die wiedereröffnung der Pangunamine. Von staatlicher Seite wird auch aktuell keine zweite Alternative vorangetrieben, sondern alles auf eine Wiedereröffnung gesetzt.
Eine Umsiedlung ist nirgends einfach durchzuführen, weil der Mensch an sich ein Gewohnheitstier ist und sich immer schwer tut mit solch grundsätzlichen Veränderung.
Ich denke Platz ist auf der Insel noch genügend, dass sollte bei einer Bevölkerungsdichte von unter 20 Personen pro Quadratkilometer kein Problem sein. Die Bedenken auf Bougainville darf man nicht mit denen in Deutschland vergleichen! In Deutschland haben wir eine Wohstandsgesellschaft, dessen Wohlstand durch ein Projekt wie Stuttgart 21 nicht merklich geschmälert wird, dagegen auf Bougainville geht es erst einmal darum die Lebensgrundlage abzusichern. Das sich die Menschen kritisch und Fragend zur Minenthematik äußern ist für mich nur Verständlich und sollte nicht überbewertet werden.
Das Stichwort der Stunde aktuell ist Kommunikation alle Parteien müssen sich miteinander verständigen, um auf einen gemeinsamen Konsens zu kommen. Was auch meiner Meinung nach gut funktioniert jede Woche kommen darüber positive Meldungen.
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Deshalb waren sie ja auch schon in Panguna! Mit Sicherheit nicht, um zu sehen, wie ein großes Loch aussieht!
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Das beste für uns wäre natürlich eine Finanzierung mit den Chinesen und dafür Lieferverträge zu festen Preisen. Weiß jemand, ob dass eine gewöhnliche Finanzierungs-
methode für solch ein großes Projekt ist?
Women groups, church, sports fraternities, youth groups and schools in Central Bougainville, Kieta and Arawa, Wakunai and rural parts of that region who have been presented cheques by Minister for Bougainville Affairs Minister Fidelis Semoso last month as funding for their proposals by groups advised the cheques have bounced back.
The K1 million project funds were sourced by Minister Semoso after he received numerous proposals from those in Central Bougainville for projects by the women, churches, youth, sports groups and schools specifically of Panguna areas.
Minister Semoso was on duty in Port Moresby all of last week and could not be reached but his office has advised the ABG should answer up to the mishap because they may have diverted the Minister’s funds sourced specifically to develop central Bougainville from the National Government. They explained that the funds go to the ABG’s operating account ...
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