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Just weeks before an election, the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea has been killed in a car crash.

First thoughts were assassination, but perhaps its just an ordinary accident.

The story is not on Australian radio or TV news this morning, as far as I can tell, but it is on the ABC website.

Papua New Guinea's Deputy Prime Minister Sam Basil dies, delaying general election

Plus there are on-going riots in West Papua over Indonesian plans to further dilute any native West Papuan autonomy (they have virtually none already).
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keith wrote: Thu May 12, 2022 5:49 pm Just weeks before an election, the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea has been killed in a car crash.

First thoughts were assassination, but perhaps its just an ordinary accident.

The story is not on Australian radio or TV news this morning, as far as I can tell, but it is on the ABC website.

Papua New Guinea's Deputy Prime Minister Sam Basil dies, delaying general election

Plus there are on-going riots in West Papua over Indonesian plans to further dilute any native West Papuan autonomy (they have virtually none already).
Deputy Prime Minister, not Prime Minister, from reading the article.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-20/ ... /101912710

The female defence boss getting Papua New Guinea's planes back in the sky
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Very interesting!
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