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Title: The Negative Impact of PNG Government's Decision to Create 6 New Government Departments

Introduction:
In a recent move that has stirred controversy and raised concerns, the government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has announced the establishment of six new government departments. While the intentions behind this decision may be rooted in improving governance and public administration, it is essential to examine the potential negative consequences that such a move could have on the country.

1. Financial Burden:
Creating new government departments means allocating resources, including funding, staff, and infrastructure. This decision can strain an already limited budget and, if not managed carefully, could potentially divert funds from critical sectors like education, healthcare, and infrastructure development that require urgent attention.

2. Bureaucracy and InefficiencyWith the addition of six new government departments, the potential for increased bureaucracy and red tape becomes a significant concern. More layers of administration and decision-making can hinder the efficiency of public services, leading to delays, bottlenecks, and a lack of accountability. This could affect the delivery of essential services to citizens and slow down the overall progress of the nation.

3. Lack of Proper Oversight:
The establishment new departments requires careful planning, coordination, and implementation., rushing into creating these departments without foresight and oversight measures could result in a lack of accountability and transparency. This may create opportunities for corruption, mismanagement, and misuse of public resources, further eroding public trust in the government.

4. Staffing and Skill Shortages:
Creating new departments means recruiting staff to fill positions within each department. However, PNG already faces challenges in terms of skill shortages, especially in critical sectors such as healthcare and education. The sudden demand for staffing these new departments may exacerbate the existing shortage and lead to a compromised workforce lacking necessary expertise and experience.

5. Fragmented Governance:
The decision to create six new government departments could potentially fragment governance and decision-making processes. This fragmentation may create overlaps in responsibilities, communication breakdowns, and hinder collaboration between different. A coordination efficient communication across departments could result in disjointed policies and implementation strategies, ultimately hindering progress and development.

Conclusion:
While the intent behind the PNG government's decision to create six new government departments may be well-intentioned, is crucial to assess the potential negative impacts. Alloc adequate resources, ensuring efficiency and transparency, and addressing skill shortages are essential considerations that must not be overlooked. By carefully managing these potential challenges, the government can safeguard against the adverse effects and ensure that the creation of these new departments leads to improved governance and better public services for the people of Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea’s police chief has told officers to use “lethal force” to quell violence in Enga province, where one of the world’s largest gold producers and its Chinese partner plan to reopen a mine with a long record of human rights abuses.

The directive in an Aug. 12 memo from Commissioner of Police David Manning, which has been seen by BenarNews, is in response to reports of escalating violence in Enga, a remote highlands region prone to tribal conflicts, but also applies across the Pacific island country, it said.

“There has been an increasing number of reports of the Enga population being armed with fi****ms and offensive weapons, resulting in the escalation of violent criminal activities,” the document said.

“The directive also applies to similar incidents and operations throughout the country, with the aim of ensuring that those who possess fi****ms no longer pose a threat to law abiding citizens and vulnerable communities.”

Canada’s Barrick Gold Corp., which part owns the Porgera gold mine in Enga province along with China’s Zijin Mining Group, earlier this month said it hopes to resume operations at the mine before the end of 2023 after a hiatus of several years.

Mining Minister Ano Pala said at a forum in July on reopening the mine that maintenance of law and order is critical to its operations, according to Barrick’s statement.

Papua New Guinea has one police officer for about every 1,800 people, nearly four times less than the level recommended by the United Nations to ensure law and order, according to a Griffith Asia Institute report published this year by researcher Sean Jacobs.

The research estimated the ratio of police to people has declined substantially in the past half century as Papua New Guinea’s population tripled to more than nine million.

Stability for the country, which gained its independence from Australia in 1975, has remained elusive as it grapples with tribal violence and challenges such as corruption and lack of roads and basic healthcare in many regions.

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This undated photo shows an open pit gold mine that’s part of the Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea’s Enga Province. [Porgera Joint Venture]
Manning, in a statement on Tuesday, said his shoot-to-kill directive has the support of the government and police officers have been given clear direction on when its use is appropriate.

“In simple terms, if a person is brandishing a gun, an explosive device, or other weapon such [as] a bush knife or catapult, force will be escalated to protect the public and the police,” he said.

“Domestic terrorists and other criminals have now been given more than fair warning and they can expect no tolerance,” Manning said.

Papua New Guinea’s police union earlier this month said the force suffers low morale, poor equipment and run down uninhabitable barracks and needs an urgent injection of funds.

“Let us give priority to the welfare of our police personnel and then equip them adequately with appropriate gear, arms, appropriate allowances, transport, accommodation and then deploy them to the regions of crisis,” said Lowa Tambua, president of the Police Association.

Opened in 1990, the Porgera mine, about 600 kilometers (373 miles) northwest of the capital Port Moresby, has been a source of conflict for years.

Barrick and Zijin Mining agreed in 2021 to halve their combined stake in the mine to just under 50% following the Papua New Guinea government’s refusal to renew Porgera’s license.

Local interests such as the provincial government and traditional landowners are now the majority owners.

In 2011, a Human Rights Watch report exposed gang rapes and other violent abuses by security guards at the mine.

Under pressure later that decade, Barrick in 2017 commissioned a nonprofit organization to make recommendations for addressing more than 900 human rights abuse cases linked to Porgera.

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Last week, Lloyd Austin became the first US defence secretary to visit Papua New Guinea, en route to the AUSMIN conclave in Brisbane. Austin was the latest in a long line of VIP visitors to the South Pacific nation this year, including French President Emmanuel Macron, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly. Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in Port Moresby too, in January, to progress a new bilateral security treaty.

The intensified interest is concomitant with PNG’s status as the standout among Pacific island countries in terms of territory, natural resources and population, giving it inherent leadership potential in a region that’s been rapidly rising up the international agenda.

Austin’s visit is strategically significant, because the centrepiece of the US’s invigorated bilateral engagement with PNG is a defence cooperation agreement, concluded in May. It has still to be debated in PNG’s parliament. The US State Department’s announcement on the agreement is couched in terms that underline the broad security benefits on offer to Port Moresby, including capacity building for the PNG Defence Force, disaster preparedness, and assistance to PNG’s small maritime constabulary force in suppressing illegal activities in the country’s vast sovereign archipelagic sea. The arrival of a US Coast Guard cutter to the region next year, with PNG ship riders onboard, should further the latter objective, helping to instil perceptions that greater US regional engagement contributes to security beyond narrow military considerations.

The White House appears cognisant of the need to engage Pacific leaders across a comprehensive definition of security, so that the offer of an elevated US defence partnership can be politically sustainable in PNG, increasing the likelihood of it achieving local support. Yet that need shouldn’t obscure the fact that PNG’s primary value to the US is a function of its strategic geography. The access negotiated under the agreement serves an underlying strategic purpose, integral to the US–Australia alliance, as the US Indo-Pacific Command reshapes its force posture in response to China’s continuing military build-up and prepares the theatre for the future possibility of armed conflict on a regionwide scale.

In June, with the ink on the agreement hardly dry, a flight of four US F-35 Lightning II aircraft en route from Australia to Hawaii diverted to Jacksons International Airport, in Port Moresby, for an unscheduled refuelling stop after the tanker they were meant to rendezvous with developed technical problems. The incident was a timely reminder of PNG’s potential as a defence partner in its own right, not simply territory to fly over or sail past.

The text of the PNG–US agreement reportedly identifies six sites for ‘unimpeded access’ across the country: the port and Jacksons International Airport in the capital; the port of Lae and Nadzab airport in the east; and the naval base at Lombrum on Manus Island and nearby civilian airport at Momote in the north. The agreement also details accommodation arrangements and the legal status of US military personnel deployed to PNG, the prepositioning of defence equipment and humanitarian supplies, and refuelling and maintenance for US ships and aircraft in transit. Its duration is 15 years, an indication of purpose on Washington’s part.

Austin has said the US is ‘not seeking a permanent base’ in PNG. In that, the agreement bears outward similarity to the recently expanded enhanced defence cooperation arrangement in the Philippines, with the obvious difference that PNG is not a US treaty ally.

The island of New Guinea, of which PNG forms the eastern half, is often depicted as sitting at the foot of the ‘second island chain’. Alternatively conceived, it constitutes the biggest link in Australia’s own first island chain. Either way, its importance is clear: it’s not just the closest country to the Australian mainland but, with an 820-kilometre land border with Indonesia, also the hinge between Southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific. The Torres Strait, between PNG and Australia, controls access between the Indonesian archipelago and the Coral Sea. Cape York, the northernmost part of the Australian continent, points directly to Guam, in the Marianas, America’s bulwark base in the second island chain. PNG is the only country in between. At AUSMIN, it was announced that Royal Australian Air Force Base Scherger, a ‘bare base’ located on the Cape, is likely to be upgraded, partly to meet US requirements.

From Washington’s standpoint, air and sea access through PNG helps to ensure that US forces can both disperse safely to Australia and project power freely from it into the western Pacific. Of course, Indonesia is also geographically vital in this regard, as an island screen across Australia’s Top End and northwest. Under international law, transit rights through Indonesia’s archipelago are guaranteed via designated sea and air corridors. Yet access in a crisis cannot be taken for granted, which gives PNG heightened significance as a reliable alternative. The Vitiaz Strait provides the most direct sea passage between the western Pacific and Australia’s eastern seaboard.

PNG’s geopolitical value is further sharpened by its sea boundary with Solomon Islands (a sensitive one for PNG, given uncertainty about Bougainville’s future status), which under Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare is tilting towards China and remains one of Beijing’s most likely options to host a People’s Liberation Army presence in some form, even if it’s not a military base. Concern about restrictions that Honiara has imposed on some visiting US Navy vessels partly motivated Washington to negotiate a defence cooperation agreement with PNG.

Unit-level initiatives, such as Task Force Koa Moana, which integrates US marines and sailors with PNG defence personnel, suggest that the US military intends to forge lasting military-to-military and interpersonal relations within PNG. At the onset of a conflict or crisis, PNG could itself serve as a location for the US military to disperse combat assets from Guam and bases in the first island chain. In the event of a protracted maritime conflict, the US and Australia are both likely to regard PNG as a useful ‘in-theatre’ location from which to conduct combat replenishment, basic repairs and maintenance for ships and submarines, and possibly aircraft if the infrastructure is developed to support it. Lombrum served a similar function during World War II and could do so again, but with a smaller footprint on land. Comparisons with the 1940s, when Australians and Americans fought side by side with locals against Japan can mislead, but PNG’s positional importance in a US–China strategic context is likely to have fundamental resonances. Austin’s father served with the US Army in New Guinea during World War II, a point noted by PNG’s Prime Minister James Marape during their meeting.

Canberra has officially welcomed the PNG–US defence cooperation agreement. PNG’s rising strategic profile and that of the South Pacific in general are also discernible in the force posture elements of the AUSMIN communiqué. However, the invigorated US interest is likely to engender mixed feelings in Canberra, which for so long has seen itself as Port Moresby’s partner of choice. Australia’s defence cooperation program with PNG is its largest and the bonds run deep. Securing support for the US agreement has depleted Marape’s political capital, delaying the ratification of Australia’s own treaty-level agreement by several months. Nevertheless, the US decision to double down on defence cooperation with PNG stands to bolster Australia’s security significantly in the long run. It can be considered an extended investment in the US–Australia alliance, strengthening linear communications along the second island chain in particular, and facilitating access to and from Australia for US forces across the Pacific theatre

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In 1952 the architectural style was dominated by rectilinear aesthetic. The sculptural form of the General Assembly’s curved roof and walls was an unexpected departure from that style and a very modern approach to architecture!

Discover more facts about the UN in the outgoing exhibit “UN Headquarters: A Workshop for Peace”.

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