Keith Jackson & Friends: PNG ATTITUDE

Attitude Quotes of the Day
“I am also saddened at Somare's treatment. As we all face mortality we look back on how we have lived and know we could have done it better” (Geoff Hancock in Recent Comments)

"Those who determined how the world was when we were young are mostly dead or possibly in retirement homes enjoying boiled lollies" (Paul Oates in Recent Comments)

Attitude Quote of the Day
“[Kevin] Rudd has defended his restless travels saying: ‘Last time I looked at the map of the world, Australia was a long way from most places, except New Zealand.’ But it is even closer to PNG, just a motorised canoe ride away” (Rowan Callick in 'The Australian' on the foreign minister’s detachment from PNG affairs)

Attitude Quote of the Day
“They [the Greens] wouldn't know the difference between a cow and a bull. (You look underneath: slight differences in structures, physical appearances etc.) [Colin Huggins in Recent Comments]

Attitude Quotes of the Day
“I am still a Parliamentarian and I have a duty to fulfill my roles as such until the return of writs after the elections. I was very frustrated sitting in the middle benches” (Dame Carol Kidu in ‘No sinister intent’, says the one-woman opposition’)

“For most people here, the lives and exploits of the elite occur in a separate parallel universe. They are not fazed. Governments and politicians come and go, while their lives remain, for the most part, unchanged” (Catherine Wilson in ‘Despite crisis, vibrant Port Moresby hums along’)

Attitude Quote of the Day
“What began as a political issue is fast becoming a social issue and threatens social order throughout the country” (Martyn Namorong on the fallout from last week's attempted overthrow of the O’Neill government)

Attitude Quote of the Day
“Ms Toni is a poet's poet .... and thank goodness for the Crocodile Prize which enables such talent to be promulgated” (Ed Brumby on Loujaya Toni's scintillating poetry, at present gracing these columns) 

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“Whether the acts of Thursday were seditious or traitorous, it is clear that Michael Somare has gone too far” (Paul Oates in ‘Reflections on an attempted seizure of State’)

Attitude Quote of the Day
“When the dust clears, maybe people could reflect on the damage this has done to PNG's reputation. What was the point of it all? Except to satisfy one old man's ego.” (Contributor Peter Kranz, summing up a widely held view)

Attitude Quote of the Day
"The enthusiasm over there [in Papua New Guinea] for the way they go about their cricket, gave me the joy to come back” [a resurgent Brad Hogg paying tribute to PNG cricket after his elevation to Australia’s T20 team]

Attitude Quote of the Day
"I heard that Different and Same once lived together in one-big-room, called The Unreal World / Then Somebody decided to build a great-big-wall called Isolation / And make two-small-rooms and give them the name The Real World" (Michael Dom in the prose poem, ‘This is my place’)

Attitude Quote of the Day
“The use of the term ‘estuary’ prompted someone to say ‘crocodile’, so for the next few minutes marksmen placed several rounds of ammunition into likely looking logs lying on the river banks” (Terry Edwinsmith in the historical feature ‘Patrolling Papua’)

Attitude Quote of the Day
"We are bigger than HOLLYWOOD / Everyone knows where we are / But no one in their right mind should come here!" (Loujaya Toni in her poem, Once Upon a Prime Time)

Attitude Quote of the Day
“But it’s hard to be-have wen we don’t have, Johnny / Dose Have’s, let dem be-have. We Have-nots, be-have not! /We not gonna follo rules dat alreadi sum bosses dem broken!” [Icarus in Johnny got wan nu muruk insaid his banis]

Attitude Quote of the Day
“The Galkope of the diaspora contribute money to support socio-political and spiritual activities, whether good or bad, back in the Galkope territory. They even buy firearms, bullets and hand grenades and send them back home to use during wars in an attempt to help their clans uphold their name” [Kela Kapkora Sil Bolkin]

Attitude Quote of the Day
“The toxicity of the littering should determine the fine.  K20 for a buai spitter and K20 million for a mining spitter” (Phil Fitzpatrick in Recent Comments)

Attitude Quote of the Day
“We have a government that hijacked the constitutional processes of dispute resolution and we are now living in a country that is being ruled through a political coup, sanctioned through breaking laws and misleading the populace” (Paul Amatio in Recent Comments)

Attitude Quote of the Day
“Patient, enduring (putting up with all the bullshit his ministers are shooting up), willing to listen, pondering over issues on hand before handing down a decision, non-confrontational, appeasing, understanding, yielding, reasoning” (Mary Koisen on Peter O’Neill in Recent Comments)

Attitude Quote of the Day
Ineptocracy - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of achieving, and where the members of society least likely to succeed or even sustain themselves, are abundantly rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers [supplied by Terry Shelley]

Attitude Quote of the Day
I am concerned that most Papua New Guineans are willing to trade one patently corrupt government for another which is unproven and immature and, more importantly, has seized control by unconstitutional means [Icarus in Recent Comments]