ELECTED EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

The Australia Papua New Guinea Business Council and the Business Council of Papua

New Guinea presented a number of key private sector concerns to Ministers and

Government Officials attending the Ministerial Forum cohosted by the Australian

Minister for Foreign Affairs—Honorable Julie Bishop and Foreign Affairs Minister for

Papua New Guinea, Rimbink Pato, in Canberra on the 3rd of March 2017.

The concerns presented included:-

1) Foreign Currency

2) Market Access

3) Visas

4) Economic Co-operation Treaty

5) APEC 2018

6) Public Service Reform

Phil Franklin

President 2016

ELECTED EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

OFFICE BEARERS President: Phil Franklin

Vice President: Richard Flynn Secretary: Jonathan Seeto

Treasurer: David Guinn

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS James Kruse : Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Mark Baker: ANZ Bank

Steve Patrick: Gadens Lawyers Bruce Avenell: American Insurance Group

Geoff Toone: Westpac Bank

Mark Hitchcock : Rio Tinto Greg Worthington-Eyre: Trukai Industries

Andrew Barry : Exxon Mobil PNG Geoff Scahill: Abt JTA

Matt Lewis: Hornibrook NGI Ltd

EX OFFICIOS Ex Officio : David Knapton Austrade Ex Officio: Bruce Davis Australian High Commissioner

SECRETARIAT Corporate Services Manager: Nalini Nandanhallt

Accounts Administrator: Naomi Stanley

Mess age from the P res iden t

Events Calendar:

3 March 2016

Ministerial forum Canberra

*2nd Quarter Meeting

28 April 2016

venue: INA Boardroom

32ND PNG AUST BUS FORUM

(CAIRNS) 15-17 MAY 2016

* 3rd Quarter Meeting Execu-

tive Committee 2016 —3 Au-

gust 2016

* 4th Quarter Meeting Execu-

tive Committee 2016 — 5

December 2016

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Presidents Report

Work Programe:

Business and Development

Round Table

TVET

TB

AID FOR TRADE

MINISTERIAL FORUM

COMMUNIQUE

PM ONEILL PRESS CLUB

ADDRESS MARCH 2016

PNG Development

Indicators

AGM 2016

32nd PNG AUST BUS FORUM

CAIRNS

Media Summary

BUSINESS VISA

sponsors

contacts

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Contents

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PRESIDENTS REPORT

QUARTERLY MEETING SCHEDULE—APNGBC (PNG)

Quarter 1 Wednesday, 3 February 2016 Q1 Meeting GRAND PAPUA HOTEL MEET AND GREET FUNCTION

Quarter 2 Thursday 28 April 2016 Q2 AGM INA Boardroom

Quarter 3 Wednesday 31 August 2016 Q3 Meeting Venue to be confirmed

Quarter 4 Monday 5 December 2015 Venue to be confirmed Xmas Drinks for the Exec Committee @AUSTRADE RESIDENCE

MARCH 2016

Ministerial Forum Business Dialogue

The Australia Papua New Guinea Business Council Represents Business Interests at the 24th Australia-Papua New

Guinea Ministerial Forum in Canberra.

It’s been a busy week for representatives of the APNGBC in Canberra. Along with members of the Business

Council of Papua New Guinea, five APNGBC Executive Committee members and two Executive Committee

members from the Council’s Papua New Guinea Branch met with Australian and Papua New Guinean Ministers

ahead of the 24th Australia Papua New Guinea Ministerial Forum to discuss the business interests of both Austra-

lia and Papua New Guinea business.

Councils’ representatives attended a valuable business dialogue with key Ministers from both countries on

Wednesday 2nd

March. This dialogue preceded the main Ministerial Forum on Thursday 3rd

March.

You can listen to APNGBC President, Greg Pawson discussing the outcomes of this meeting with ABC Radio on

Thursday morning.

The Joint Communique, released at the conclusion of the Forum indicates broad-ranging discussion took place on a number of bilateral topics including:

Defence and Security Cooperation

Trade, Investment and Economic Cooperation

Development Cooperation

Health

Joint Understanding

Gender and Women’s Empowerment

Bougainville

Drought, Natural Disasters and Relief Assistance

Pacific Leadership and Governance Precinct

Science and Technology

APEC 2018

Immigration and People-to-People Links

Combatting People Smuggling and the Regional Resettlement Arrangement

Regional and Global Issues

Full text of Communiqué is on Page 4

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-03/australia-and-png-foreign-and-trade-ministers-meet/7216360

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National Press Club Address: Prime Minister Peter O’Neill Phil Franklin along with other representatives of the business community attended the Prime Minister Peter O’Neill address at the National Press Club on Thursday 3 March 2016. (refer pages APNGBC (Australia) Meeting Executive Meeting Thursday 18 February 2016, Phil Franklin attended the APNGBC Executive Committee meeting with Australian aid senior officials in Sydney, followed by the APNGBC Executive Committee Meeting. A presentation was made by Ms Carla Ewin, The Stake-holder Company, Singapore. Visit by the Governor of Queensland, the Honourable Paul de Jersey, A visit is scheduled by Honourable Paul de Jersey, to Port Moresby between 16 and 19 May 2016 (following his role in opening the Business Forum in Cairns). The Governor will be focusing on promoting Queensland interna-tionally, affirming PNG-QLD relations and promoting QLD-PNG trade and investment. AHC have been asked to organise a dinner with the Governor, High Commissioner Davis and Qld business representatives operating in PNG. We understand that APNGBC Businesses operating in Queensland will be invited. Survey of Members re: MOU with APNGBC. A survey was conducted end of February 2016. The survey strongly endorsed APNGBC to remain in its current structure and to coordinate work plan with APNGBC Australia.

WORK PROGRAM 2016

BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT ROUND TABLE TVET subcommittee Update Next meeting date to be advised. Mapping questionnaire circulated to members 16 Feb 2016. APTC Board nominations currently being reviewed. TB Subcommittee Update No action this month AID FOR TRADE Subcommittee Update APNGBC (PNG) is preparing some agenda points for the next Aid for Trade meeting. TRADE PASIFIKA Corporate Service Manager—Australia Papua New Guinea Business Council, (Nalini Nandanhallt) met with Asif Chida (UNDP) and Alisi Tuqa, Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation is liaising with Private Sector Peak bod-ies to prepare for a regional trade show to be held October 2016 (mid). The event is anticipated to cover 2-3 days, have a forum presentation with speakers and approx 40 trade booths. Speakers will be selected around the topics of SME development; Fair Trade; Women in Business in the Pacific and Youth entrepreneurship. DRAFT NATIONAL TRADE POLICY - circulated for comment 15/3/2016. Nalini Nandanhallt to attend workshop on the 22

nd of March 2016 and will be able to provide feedback on the policy. All members are invited to attend 8-

5pm if they are available RSVP please - email [email protected]. I anticipate APNGBC will be providing a formal response pending review from members. DRAFT SME POLICY - Now available for review / comment.

SME Policy & Master Plan 2016-2030 Summary Please review this policy on webisite http://www.ndb.com.pg/index.php/products/downloads— and provide your

feedback to use email [email protected].

http://www.ndb.com.pg/index.php/products/downloads

24th Australia - Papua New Guinea Ministerial Forum - Joint Communique

3 March 2016

Parliament House, Canberra, Australia

1. The 24th Papua New Guinea - Australia Ministerial Forum was held at Parliament House, Canberra, on 3 March 2016.

2. The Forum was co-chaired by the Hon Julie Bishop MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the Hon Rimbink Pato LLB OBE MP, Minister for Foreign

Affairs and Immigration.

3. Ministers' discussions reflected the maturity of our relations and the comprehensive strategic and economic partnership shared by Australia and Papua New Guinea, which is supported by key treaties and arrangements, including the Joint Declaration of Principles Guiding Relations between

Papua New Guinea and Australia 1987, the Joint Declaration of Partnership 2013 and the Economic Cooperation Treaty 2014.

4. Ministers agreed to continue the close partnership on security and strategic issues, trade and investment, strengthening regionalism in the Pacific and signed a new Aid Partnership. Ministers reaffirmed that the bilateral relationship is based upon mutual respect, equality and a commitment to

meeting shared objectives.

5. Ministers emphasised the importance of building people-to-people ties, raising awareness among young people of Australia and Papua New Guinea’s shared history, and streamlining travel arrangements. Ministers welcomed the outcomes of the 30th Anniversary Torres Strait Joint Advisory

Council (JAC) and the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM).

Defence and Security Cooperation

6. Ministers acknowledged the close defence and security partnership between Papua New Guinea and Australia and noted the ongoing collaboration in capacity building, enhancing maritime capabilities, bilateral and multilateral naval exercises and training. Ministers welcomed the second Bilateral Security Dialogue which highlighted the value of the joint approach of Australia and Papua New Guinea to bilateral and regional security matters in the

Indo-Pacific.

7. In recognition of shared maritime challenges, Ministers committed to increased whole-of-government cooperation on practical initiatives and sharing of experiences on border and maritime security to combat people smuggling, human trafficking, illegal fishing and transnational crime. They also

noted the ongoing cooperation in the area of aerial and marine surveillance to combat such illegal activities and transnational crime.

8. Ministers agreed to undertake a Base-Line Study of whole-of-government coordination in Papua New Guinea in relation to government border and

maritime security processes, with a view to identifying areas for further possible assistance.

9. Ministers welcomed Papua New Guinea’s decision to participate in the Pacific Maritime Security Program and the release of Australia’s 2016 De-fence White Paper. They also noted Australia’s support to Papua New Guinea with four naval boats as part of the Pacific Marit ime Security Program. Ministers announced their support for Australia providing two helicopters to the PNGDF Air Transport Wing under the Defence Cooperation Program

for a further three years.

10. Ministers noted Australia and Papua New Guinea’s plans to review defence cooperation to reflect both countries priorities as outlined in their De-fence White Papers and national security policies. 11. Ministers acknowledged that the Papua New Guinea – Australia Police Partnership is enhancing the capacity of the Royal Papua New Guinea

Constabulary (RPNGC).

12. Ministers noted that in view of the Papua New Guinea’s new Development Cooperation Policy, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) be-

tween the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) and the Australia Federal Police (AFP) will now be reviewed.

Trade, Investment and Economic Cooperation

13. Ministers noted that the ECT signed in 2014 reflects the maturity in the Papua New Guinea-Australia relationship and is based on equality and

strategic partnership and it further reflects a shift in the focus from aid dependency to sustainable trade and economic relations.

14. Ministers noted the strong trade and investment relationship between Papua New Guinea and Australia. Ministers acknowledged the importance of taking forward specific proposals to promote economic growth in both countries and giving effect to the aims of the Economic Cooperation Treaty

signed by the two countries in 2014.

15. Papua New Guinean Ministers welcomed a proposal by Australia to establish an Australian Consulate-General in Lae. Ministers agreed that the establishment of a Consulate-General in Papua New Guinea’s commercial hub would provide opportunities to enhance economic ties between the

two countries.

16. Australia noted Papua New Guinea’s interest in negotiating a new arrangement on economic cooperation. Ministers noted tha t the PACER Plus is

still being negotiated.

17. Ministers discussed mechanisms for strengthening two way trade and undertook to maintain collaboration to address market access and other related issues. Ministers agreed on the importance of ongoing Australian assistance to support boosting Papua New Guinean exports. They also undertook to maintain collaboration on plant and animal biosecurity activities, and to mutually apply a scientific approach to sanitary and phytosanitary

measures.

18. Ministers noted the importance of the Pacific Seasonal Workers Program in Australia in terms of short term employment, remittances, and building capacity and skills for Seasonal Workers. They noted Australia’s decision to expand the Seasonal Workers Program from primary horticulture to the

broader agriculture sector including cattle, sheep, grain and mixed enterprises.

19. Ministers noted that relatively few Papua New Guinea nationals had participated in Australia’s Seasonal Workers Program and that officials from

both countries were investigating ways to boost Papua New Guinea participation.

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20. Ministers also noted Papua New Guinea’s request to expand the Seasonal Workers Program to include skilled and semi -skilled workers who are trained by Australian accredited specialized training institutions such as the Australia-Pacific Technical College where opportunities exists for employ-

ment in specialized care of the elderly, child, disability and community care.

21. Ministers welcomed continuing dialogue with businesses about how the Papua New Guinea - Australia trade and investment relationship could be

strengthened.

22. Ministers welcomed the close cooperation between Papua New Guinea and Australia on combatting money laundering and financing of terrorism

and the recent gazettal of anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing and proceeds of crime legislation by Papua New Guinea.

Development Cooperation

23. Ministers highlighted the importance of all development assistance being implemented in line with the priorities of the Papua New Guinea Government, and noted Papua New Guinea’s new Development Cooperation Policy.

24. Ministers signed a new Aid Partnership which reflected the countries' ongoing commitment to mutual respect for sovereignty and mutual benefit from development cooperation. Ministers welcomed the Aid Partnership’s continued focus on Papua New Guinea's development priorities on Health and HIV/AIDS, Governance, Education, Law and Justice and Transport Infrastructure.

25. The Ministers noted the Papua New Guinea Government’s policy directives and decisions, including the adoption of the Deve lopment Cooperation Policy that, inter alia, provides the policy framework and directions for engagement of foreign advisors in the public service; the implementation of development assistance programs, and the institutional and oversight mechanisms for the overall coordination and implementation of development assistance programs in the country.

26. Ministers noted the Papua New Guinea Government’s proposal to enter into a Joint Understanding with Australia to guide cooperation on technical assistance in Papua New Guinea. They agreed to setting up a Working Group, comprising Officials of both Governments to discuss the draft proposal.

27. Ministers noted Papua New Guinea’s request for increased cooperation on twinning and secondment arrangements. 28. Ministers noted the importance of activities under the agreed Papua New Guinea – Australia Private Sector Development Framework (PSDF) aligning with the Papua New Guinea Government’s SME policy.Health

29. Ministers agreed on the importance of Papua New Guinea executing its tuberculosis control plan, ensuring it is funded adequately in future years.

Joint Understanding

30. Ministers welcomed Australia and Papua New Guinea's collaboration to redevelop the Lae ANGAU Memorial Hospital and agreed to explore options for staged funding, consistent with the existing mutual commitment to co-funding of the project.

Gender and Women’s Empowerment

31. Ministers acknowledged the importance of promoting gender equality and greater economic opportunities for women. Ministers noted the importance of continuing to improve the physical and economic security of women, and increasing opportunities for women to take up leadership positions.

32. Ministers noted the positive progress of the Papua New Guinea Public Service Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) project that has been supported by the Australian Government, which is specifically aimed at not only building skills and capacity of women to be leaders in the Public Service and wider community but also protect them from gender based violence and exploitation.

Bougainville

33. Ministers reaffirmed their acceptance of the sovereignty of Papua New Guinea. Ministers agreed on the importance of development cooperation assistance in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville focussing on implementing the Bougainville Peace Agreement, strengthening the public sector and supporting economic growth. Minis-ters reaffirmed the importance of ongoing coordination between Papua New Guinea and Australia on development assistance in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.

Drought, Natural Disasters and Relief Assistance

34. Ministers noted the recent El Nino and prolonged drought that affected various parts of Papua New Guinea and the assistance provided by the Australian Government to the people at the provincial and ward levels. Ministers further noted the request by Papua New Guinea to build capacity of the Papua New Guinea National Disaster and Emergency Services Office (NDESO) to effectively manage drought and natural disasters.

Pacific Leadership and Governance Precinct

35. Ministers welcomed the ongoing progresses made to achieve the Pacific Leadership and Governance Precinct initiative and noted its importance in promoting value-based leadership and boosting human resource development and capacity of public servants. Ministers further agreed that Papua New Guinea and Australia would build on the substantial work already achieved under the Pacific Leadership and Governance Precinct.

Science and Technology

36. Ministers supported the establishment of the Papua New Guinea Science and Technology Council and agreed on the importance of a close partnership in areas of mutual interest between our peak research bodies and institutions. Ministers noted the importance of its ongoing discussion for possible cooperation with Australian Univer-sities and Research Institution for collaborative research in areas of mutual interests and benefit to both countries, including equality and status of women in research.

MINISTERIAL FORUM (Cont’d)

APEC

37. Ministers welcomed the progress being made by Papua New Guinea in its preparations for hosting APEC 2018, and the ongoing discussions between Papua New Guinea and Australia concerning support by Australia on policy, security and logistics.

Immigration and People-to-People Links

38. Ministers agreed on the importance of continuing to build people-to-people links between young Australians and Papua New Guineans, including through the Papua New Guinea-Australia Network, the Emerging Leaders’ Dialogue and the New Colombo Plan. Ministers resolved to continue joint work on preserving the Kokoda Track region and expanding development opportunities for communities along the Track.

39. Ministers noted the work being undertaken by the Joint Technical Working Group to examine steps both governments would take to make it easier for Papua New Guineans to travel to Australia. Ministers acknowledged Australia’s commitment under the Joint Technical Working Group to bui ld awareness within the Papua New Guinea business community of streamlined visa products through outreach workshops.

40. Ministers noted Papua New Guinea’s concerns about the current online visa application system and agreed that the Joint Technical Working Group would explore ways to address these.

41. Ministers agreed to finalise the necessary arrangements to bring a Work and Holiday visa into effect in 2016. The new visa will allow up to 100 Australian and 100 Papua New Guinean young adults per year, aged 18 to 30, to enjoy a working holiday in the other country for up to 12 months. Ministers agreed to expedite implementa-tion of the work and holiday visa.

Combatting People Smuggling and the Regional Resettlement Arrangement

42. Ministers welcomed Papua New Guinea’s passage of its first National Refugee Policy. Ministers noted that seven refugees had been settled under the Papua New Guinea National Refugee Policy and 61 people had left the Regional Processing Centre in preparation for life in Papua New Guinea. Ministers noted that 515 final refu-gee status determinations had been made by Papua New Guinea, consisting of 480 persons found to be refugees. Ministers welcomed Papua New Guinea’s intention to complete all refugee status determinations before the end of March 2016. Both governments reiterated their commitments under the Regional Resettlement Arrange-ment.

43. Ministers noted and acknowledged the ongoing importance of development assistance that promotes economic growth and generating employment opportunities in Manus.

44. Ministers noted the ongoing discussions between Australia and Papua New Guinea regarding the extension of the Regional Resettlement Arrangement until 2017 that will enable the two countries to address all related concerns.

Regional and Global Issues

45. Australian Ministers congratulated Papua New Guinea on its chairing of the Pacific Islands Leaders’ Meeting in September 2015. Ministers agreed that Papua New Guinea and Australia would work together on strengthening regionalism in the Pacific and the role of the Pacific Islands Forum. Ministers noted the importance of Austra-lia and Papua New Guinea working together to address the climate change issues and encouraged officials to maintain a policy exchange on climate change.

Declaration

46. This Joint Communique reflects discussions at the 24th Papua New Guinea - Australia Ministerial Forum held at Parliament House, Canberra, on 3 March 2016.

Signed at: on:

For the Government of Australia

_________________________

Minister for Foreign Affairs

For the Government of Papua New Guinea

________________________

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration

PNG DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS

UNDP Resident Representative (18/2/2015) the National said PNG needs reliable data to meet MDG’s . Current PNG indicators are:-

Infant mortality rate had dropped from 89 to 61 children under the age of 5 dying out of every 1000 over period 1990—2013

Gender Equality— 140 /155

Corruption perception index—139/168

Ease of Doing Business—145/189

Growth rate 9% in real terms from 2011-2015

Inflation 6%

Standard of living increase 6.3 % / Population growth 3.1 % (Dr Jacob Weiss) 19/2/2016 The National

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Prime Minister Peter O’Neil ls addresss to the Press Club Canberra 3 March 2016

Transcript Station: CANBERRA CONFERENCE UNIT

Date: 03/03/2016 Program: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB

Time: 12:00 PM Compere: Summary ID: C00065105923

Item: WESTPAC ADDRESS AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, DELIVERED BY PETER

O'NEILL, PRIME MINISTER OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA. INTERVIEWEE: PETER O'NEILL, PRIME MINISTER OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA

MARK KENNY: Good afternoon. Welcome to the National Press Club, and to today's Westpac Address. My name is Mark Kenny, I'm Vice-President of the Press Club. Today's speaker is making his second address here at the Press Club, having previously spoken I think about three years ago, and a fair bit's happened in that time both in PNG, as I'm sure we're about to hear, and in the relationship between Australia and PNG. Obviously some hot button issues there. Perhaps one of them that may be raised is the possibility of an NRL team for PNG which I understand is a particular priority of the Prime Minister. Anyway it's a great pleasure to introduce the Prime Minister of our closest neighbour,Peter O'Neill. PETER O'NEILL: Thank you Mark, and thank you ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for inviting me here again in Canberra at this National Press Club luncheon and of course it gives me great pleasure to introduce Papua New Guinea and what we are doing in Papua New Guinea today to you. In my discussions today I want to present an overview of Papua New Guinea's expanding role within the region. And this role in the region, giving the challenges that we are facing today, particularly in terms of the economic challenges facing global economies worldwide, is important to understand where Papua New Guinea is today given those challenges before us. We live in a region of great opportunity. Papua New Guinea is placed ideally in this region between the nations in Asia and the Pacific. That is why we believe strongly that regional economic integration is the certain way of delivering benefits and real benefits to our people, and of course empowering our communities in regions of our countries in the Pacific. Over the past four years Papua New Guinea has been able to achieve a great lot of development, and of course improving standards of living for many Papua New Guineans. As a member of the Pacific Island forum we have also been able to work closely with our partners in advancing Pacific regionalism, moving towards a roadmap for sustainable development for our communities. We have been able to manage meaningful relationships with our neighbours, particularly in terms of sensitive issues that [indistinct]between our borders. Our position as a country ideally placed enables us to host the APEC meeting in 2018. APEC Leaders Summit will be held in Port Moresby, and of course we want that to be truly a Pacific summit. We are engaging more deeply with members of the APEC community, and as a developing nation in the region we have a lot to learn from that engagement. I want to acknowledge the support of Australia and New Zealand in enabling Papua New Guinea to become a stronger regional participant in terms of its engagement in the Pacific, and also in the APEC economies. We have an evolving relationship between our two countries, and the focus of our relationship is not only aid dependent, but it is emerging towards more trade and invest-ment between our two countries. We are seeing an increase of two way trade between the countries. We are seeing more and more people to people numbers increasing between the two countries. This year alone we have now estimated to close to 90 cruise ships are supposed to visit Papua New Guinea from Australia. These numbers will only increase over time. Our Government to Government relationship is in a better position, but it has also taken new important dimensions. We are starting to reform the way we engage between our two countries. Particularly the engagement of Australians who are working in Papua New Guinea. Recently we have now restructured the way Australians work, provid-ing technical advice, building capacity in our public services. We want the Australians to be part of our public service machinery, not merely consultants in the system. An example of that is that our cabinet recently appointed an experienced Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner, Mr Alan Scott, to be our third Deputy Commis-sioner for Police in Papua New Guinea. He will be sworn in very shortly. These are the sort of opportunities that are available for Australians who would want to work and live in Papua New Guinea. We believe strongly that building capacity, and directly involving in the public service machinery of Papua New Guinea is the way forward for Australia's contribution in building Papua New Guinea for our citizens. There are many challenges facing Papua New Guinea today, and there will be challenges tomorrow. Like any emerging economy we are faced with global challenges, particularly from the lower commodity prices. I do not want to sugar coat the crisis that we are facing, but we have an open dialogue so that we can understand on how best we can confront these challenges. The serious decline in world prices for our oil and gas and our minerals over the past 12 to 18 months has had serious impact in our economy, and I'm certain the Australian economy faces similar challenges. In Papua New Guinea just a couple of years ago our royalties and taxes from the resource sector totalled close to $2 billion kina, but last year it just amounted to $260 million kina; barely one eighth of the previous year's revenues. We expect the same around in 2016. As a result we had to revise our budget estimates downwards. Trying to live within the new normal. We are deliberately running a deficit budget, because we are committed to programs that we have made promises to our people. Our debt level's unmanageable, about 35 per cent of our GDP. Our government had to make tough decisions, while making sure that Government itself is held responsible for many of those decisions. That is an approach that is well accepted by our citizens. We have cut spending, but we have done it so in a careful manner that is not going to affect delivery of basic services.

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The delivery of these services to our communities is at the very heart of our policy agenda for our Government. We were overwhelmingly elected in 2012 because of those commitments we made to the nation. Our key promises of free education, which is ensuring all children in Papua New Guinea attend school. Our commitment to free basic healthcare, particularly for the rural majority. Improving our law and order, reducing the impact of crimes on families, especially women and children. Building and restoring vital infrastructure such as roads, ports, and airports, which is continuing to enable the growth of our economy. So far over the past four years we have delivered on those promises. Today there are more than one million additional kids in four years attending schools. Today there are medicines going to the most remotest parts of our country. As a result of this our kids are growing up in a better environment, are being educated. Some going on to universities, becoming doctors and engineers. However vast majority of them will learn to read and write, and do maths, which will enable them to have better opportunities in their lifetime. These opportunities were never available to their parents. They will become more capable, more meaningful contributors to nation building. This has been one of our Government's most significant achievements. We are also, as I said, doing so in healthcare, where more and more people are surviving illnesses, and diseases than ever before, but there is still a lot of work yet to be done to achieve universal healthcare. We are working with partners, many of our development partners; Australian AusAID program is one of them, churches, and NGO groups like YWAM, Young Australian Medical Students who are helping communities throughout Papua New Guinea. Again this is keeping families together. It is making them stronger, and become a more harmonious society. But it is improving the lives of our people. Making such issues like infant mortality reducing at great numbers. In law and order our streets are safer today. For the first time in many decades we are graduating new policemen and women. When Parliament sits later this month we will introduce more reforms on how we deliver police service to our communities. We will restore the chain of command, improve police discipline, we will introduce what we call a one-strike policy- that policy will be introduced later this month. At the same time we are funding our judiciary and other law enforcement agencies properly for the first time in many decades. This is improving our court systems, helping us clear a backlog of issues that has been outstanding for many, many years. Finally we are also investing in key infrastructures throughout the country. If you visit Papua New Guinea today within four years we have been able to change the infra-structure status in Papua New Guinea. It has been on the decline for many, many years. Our hospitals, our schools, our roads, our airports, have never been maintained. These are now being maintained and rebuilt. Again servicing our communities, and again helping support our industries so they can become more competitive and more productive. I know that the export industries in Papua New Guinea are struggling, as many other economies in the world are also facing similar challenges, but we have to learn from this, and Papua New Guinea is no different. As we prepare, at some stage, that these commodity prices will return to the higher levels that we have experienced over the past, we must continue to live within the new normal that we are experiencing. And that is by reinvesting in other areas of the economy. Today we are empowering our local communities by decentralising how we manage our Government systems in Papua New Guinea. By doing so we are allowing commu-nities in the rural areas to take ownership of decisions that they make. We are now reinvesting in areas like agriculture, tourism, small to medium enterprises that are going to be able to sustain the economy in the future when we experience such downturn in commodity prices. This is empowering local communities, and it will obviously change the lives of people, bringing government to the communities closest to the people. We are enabling our rural majority to have a say in where their country is going. The implementation of these policies are well in advance. Only three weeks ago we had our leaders summit in Port Moresby where we had reports from the remotest parts of the country. Our services are being delivered in healthcare, in education, in road infrastructure. Now it is changing their communities because Government's policy of enabling them and resourcing them. I am confident that Papua New Guinea's future is very bright. We will continue to build a harmonious society. We will learn from the challenges that we have today. That is by diversifying our economic base. That does not necessarily mean that we will neglect our resource sector. Our oil and gas, and the mines, remain a vital part of our eco-nomic structure, and the development of our country. We today continue to work with the industry in ensuring that we have a conducive environment, a stable environment in which they can continue to invest. We are now working closely in opening a few additional world class projects in Papua New Guinea. That includes the second LNG project, after the successful delivery of the first LNP project on time within budget. We have a low cost structure that is enabling large investors like Total, who are now going to invest in a US$19 billion project employing thousands of Papua New Guineans. We are investing in The opening of a second expansion of the current LNG project through a second [indistinct] field, which is again going to expand our LNG market and exports in the future. We are of course expanding on our mineral sector. Wafi-Golpu project is a world-class project with world class deposits. Our Frieda project which is online now for develop-ment. Those are the projects of world-class standing that is again giving confidence that the Papua New Guinean economy is heading in the right direction. It will employ thousands of people, it will improve the standard of living for our people, it will enable benefits going to thousands and thousands of landowners, and we believe that it will continue to change our country into the future. One key thing that it has been noticed over the past 14 years is that Papua New Guinea has only had two governments in the 14 years. We are able to, for the first time in our history of our country, able to have political stability in Papua New Guinea, enabling confidence in the business sector, enabling confidence in our communities. And as a result we are able to have policy stability, enabling our public service machinery to work towards a common goal. Today I'm proud to say that we have more than 90 members out of 111 members in Parliament who are members of the Government, who continue to maintain stability that will take to us to the elections in 2017. Again this is helping our nation- this is serving our nation well, unlike in the past where politics was used for self-serving interests, our country is able to make decisions, and make decisions that are being implemented fully that is in the best interest of our nation. I know one other challenge that is facing us in the region, again faces Papua New Guinea, is about the environment. In Papua New Guinea we have just witnessed the worst impact of climate change. Rising sea levels, tidal surges that are taking place in many parts of our country, we have just had a seven month long devastating drought and frost with extreme storms around. Already our people in our coastal villages are becoming refugees, resettling on the mainland. We have had drought that has destroyed crops, leaving many of our communities without food. But we have been able to manage those issues by ourselves. That is probably one reason why we have not had the international attention about the worst droughts we have ever experi-enced in Papua New Guinea. We've been able to manage it because of our ability to engage with our communities, and our Government's commitment to making sure that we feed our people over that period of time. Only last week we saw Fiji, the destruction of the Cyclone Winston. Not so long ago we saw Cyclone Pam that devastated Vanuatu. This is becoming more of a concern in the region because our communities in the Pacific are the most exposed and most vulnerable to climate changes. We attended the climate change talks in Paris in Decem-ber last year, and the outcomes were probably as good as what we could have expected from that meeting. But we should not be limiting ourselves to that agreement; we must be able to do more. Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea have an obligation to the rest of the Pacific. We must make sure that these communities, and their way of life is protected. We must make sure that we enable their infrastructure, their services continue to be rolled out. That is our moral obligation. And I know, as I speak to you today, that many Pacific Island countries will express similar sentiment; that we have a community in our backyard that is wanting our help. We must stand up for them.


Finally I just also want to talk about corporate Australia, the responsibilities they also have. Papua New Guinea is one of the top destinations for invest for Australian busi-nesses but again, environment is an issue. Big companies have- must admit big responsibilities. We have recently reopened Ok Tedi, that was a subject of a major environ-mental disaster, operated by BHP at that time. The compensation arrangements that were put in place to safeguard the communities are being mismanaged today. This is sort of corporate responsibility, it's not the sort of corporate responsibility that we expect in an emerging country like Papua New Guinea. BHP and other mining companies who work and live in Papua New Guinea must share the responsibility that environmental damage done to our communities, where they lack decent water, clean water, where decisions that were not known to our communities are prevailing in many of these communities. We must make sure that we attend to this as well. Today, Ok Tedi is changing. Papua New Guinea Government has taken over the mine because of the mine life has ended from the previous operators. We are rebuilding business, we are rebuilding the communities, we are working with the landowners and Local governments in trying to make sure that we have a partnership that is going to serve all stakeholders and I believe strongly that if we work together, we should be able to attend to many of these sort of issues do not happen again and I know that under the leadership of the managing director of Ok Tedi, Mr Peter Graham who is the person who delivered a world class project, the LNG Project in Papua New Guinea, we are changing the way we do business there. We make no apology for taking firm stance in this issue. We have an obligation to our people, their wellbeing is our number one priority. We need to ensure that there is a right balance in ensuring that our people and their interests are protected. I want to conclude by saying this, we are very positive about the future of Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea is a great country, a very unique country with more than 825 languages, thousands of ethnic groupings, it is a country of many within one nation. But it is a country that is going somewhere. Want to stress that despite the global challenge that we have, the future is even brighter. We have political stability, we have certainty about the way we want to develop our country going forward. Our economic fundamentals are very stable. We have the right physical policies that will enable the growth of our economy. Our GDP has doubled in the last four years alone. Our growth last year was 9.2 per cent of GDP and real growth in [indistinct] and I know that our debt levels are manageable. We have a responsible spending program for our govern-ment. Our policy focus is people-focused and I know that we can continue to improve their living standards, continue to build the infrastructure that business will need to expand their business and their opportunities in our country. We want to make sure that we entrap(*) quality, foreign investment into our country and I look forward to an-swering many of your questions today. Thank you very much once again for giving me [indistinct]. [Applause] MARK KENNY: Thank you sir for a wide-ranging and very interesting speech there. We have a long list of journalists to ask questions as you foreshadowed. I might just start off in my capacity as a journalist, asking you a question. You talked then about- there's the Leader of the Opposition just having to make a swift exit towards Question Time. You talk- talked in your speech about the economic performance of your country and certainly doubling your GDP in four years is pretty- and growth of 9.5 per cent is pretty impressive in anyone's language but I wonder if I could ask you about economic integration with Australia, whether you're satisfied with the level of economic integration with Australia? It's often been talked about- floated the idea of a single currency with New Zealand, for example, that's come and gone as an issue once or twice. Is that something that you would, for example, consider if you could? PETER O'NEILL: Thank you very much and yes, the economic integration agenda has been discussed at the- many government discussions that we have with Australian Government. Particularly today, of course, today we also have many of our ministers who are here in Canberra with us today. We have an annual ministry or forum which gives us an opportunity to discuss issues as such. Our issue's about trying to have access to the markets here in Australia. We have easy access to the markets in Europe and America than we have access to the markets in Australia, so something is seriously wrong. Many of the investors in Papua New Guinea are Australians businesses so why shouldn't the products that they make enter Australian market? The standards that we have in manufacturing, for instance, in PNG are similar standards like Australia. So, I think that yes, we can do more. Not necessarily a single currency but I am certain that we can save costs by enabling access to markets, not only for PNG products into Australia but Australian products into PNG as well. We have a growing population, a growing middle class that has disposable income. There is an opportunity for Australian businesses as well. So, yeah, we are continuously talking but sometimes protection [indistinct] issues come in play and does not necessarily see the overall responsibility that we have in the Pacific population which is close to 20-plus million people. That is a sizable market to any business and integration is the only way we can move this forward. MARK KENNY: Thank you very much. The next question's from Lisa Martin from Australian Associated Press. QUESTION: Lisa Martin from Australian Associated Press. Thank you too for your address today Prime Minister. Doctors Without Borders released its report on domestic violence this week saying your government was letting down the women and children of PNG. The best doctors could hope for was to patch up victims between abuse incidents. Prime Minister O'Neill, why has there been delays in certifying the PNG Child Welfare Act Lukautim Pikinini and why are there hold ups creating guidelines for safe houses and vetting child protection workers? When will there be safe houses in every province of Papua New Guinea? Currently there's only six and five of them are in PortMoresby. PETER O'NEILL: Thank you very much and listen, I have no issue with the report that has been presented by the Doctors Without Borders but one has to understand the complexities of Papua New Guinean society. It is not necessarily true that every area in Papua New Guinea, every community in Papua New Guinea has got issues about domestic violence and violence against women and children. Papua New Guinea has a history dating thousands and thousands of years where, in many parts of Papua New Guinea, you have communities where women are leaders, women are landlords, they have responsibility to their land. So, women have held a very high position in our society and in many parts of the country. But there are still sections of the community and communities in PNG where it is male-dominated communities and this is where we have such problems about domestic violence and violence against children. And of course when you have a situation where when we took over government four years ago, for 10 years the only police training college in the country was shut down, for 10 years. We just started retraining the police force and reopening that particular training college four years ago. As a result we are now starting to increase the number of the police-men and women on the ground. Our aim is to try and present a police officer- policeman in every community, every village of 500 people where we've now got the village [indistinct] what we call award system where there is a councillor, there is a village court magistrate and there is a village peace officer which is a [indistinct] policeman. Our aim is to try and train the policemen to maintain order in the community. It must be community responsibility. Governments can put a number of laws out there but believe me when I tell you if laws are just written for the sake of writing it and not implement it, it is going to be a waste of time. And I know also the safe houses concept that you mention also something that we can work together with some of the NGO groups that- but again, they also come under threat because of our tribal issues about- give you an example where if a wife takes shelter in that place, the husband and their tribe come and of course start to intimidate the safe houses. So it is an ongoing problem where we need to change the mentality of some of our young men and women, and the only way is through education. When you educate a population, their mentality will change. We have had an education system that encourage a drop out system. So you've got drop out at year six, you've got drop out at year eight, you had a drop out at year ten and you had a drop out at year twelve. So every level of education you had a drop out sys-tem, so over 90 per cent of the kids were uneducated, ending up on the streets, who are now becoming adults, frustrated, and of course take some of these issues without thinking it through properly.

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So yes, we have got challenges, but the Government, this Government has been the only government that has been able to pass legislation protecting women, protecting children. I'm surprised to hear that it has not been satisfied. I think it has been satisfied, but we'll find out why that has not been satisfied. We are working closely with the courts; we are increasing the number of judges, we're increasing the number of magistrates, trying to make sure that many of these issues come to the judiciary of- in the court system so they can be dealt with. So yes, we have a challenge, and that challenge is … continuously work with the communities and of course the NGO groups that are working in partnership with Government. Government is also continuously increasing its funding in the community development sector, and that is again enabling our agencies of government to work closely with the communities. But overall, in the long term it is the community that must be responsible for our- that particular society leaves and behaves. It is unacceptable to say that this is an acceptable behaviour in a society like PNG and in the modern society that we live in. MARK KENNY: Tom Connell from Sky News. QUESTION: Tom Connell from Sky News, Prime Minister. I'm interested there's a perception here in Australia that our offshore detention centres harm our reputation in the region and around the world. I'm interested in whether you think there's a similar effect for Papua New Guinea and further to that, whether you have any sort of long term ambition to close the Manus Island facility. PETER O'NEILL: The Manus Island refugee centre is a problem that I inherited from the previous government, just like current government inherited from the previous Australian governments. But we have a responsibility to make sure it works. We have a responsibility to make sure that the refugees are resettled, and we have a responsibility to make sure that we send back those who are non-genuine refugees that we have identified. So at this stage the numbers are starting to decrease because we are sending some people home who are not genuine. We are also assessing the numbers who are supposed to be resettled. We have issues about cost of the resettle-ment; who is going to pay for it? Certainly Papua New Guinea Government does not have the resources to resettle the refugees as required, but we will play our role in making sure that those who are able to … who have got the skills and be able to work can be allowed to work in our communities. But yes, it has done a lot more damage for Papua New Guinea than anything else. You know, our communities have been accused of many things. We have lived thousands of years peacefully. If you go to Ma-nus, population of 50,000 or 60,000 people, you didn't need more than ten policemen to maintain law and order there. So when you talk about law and order issues in our communities, just arriving there one day and seeing only ten policemen does not necessarily mean that we have a law and order problem. The community itself is resilient enough to maintain law and order and enable that peaceful environment for our citizens. So in terms of the refugees' safety – they are being well looked after. Most of them are engaging very well with our communities in Manus. Manus has some of the loveliest people in the world. If you go there, you will find some of the friendliest people in Papua New Guinea, so I believe that it is up to the Australian Government whether they close down the refugee centre or not. It's not a decision that we have to make for them. We will help, as we have done. We thought that this particular issue was a regional issue – especially when we saw women and children dying at sea, we stepped up our offer to help, and that's what we have done. MARK KENNY: So just to follow up on that, is it your ambition that the centre be closed? That's what your fervent hope is? PETER O'NEILL: At some stage, of course we need to close the centre. These people cannot remain in Manus forever. We need to make a determination where they should go, and take a firm decision on it. But it is entirely up to the Australian Government. MARK KENNY: Thank you. Next question's from Gordon Taylor from the ABC News – ABC TV News. QUESTION: Prime Minister, I think it's no secret that Papua New Guinea has a cash crisis. In fact, I think in Australian parlance you might even unfairly say that the coun-try's broke. You've been trying to solve that by printing T bills, or treasury bills, which have been taken up by the domestic market, but you – the appetite for those has ceased in your country. You've got a block on foreign currency coming into the country, so how can you possibly say that you're going to adequately provide, for instance, funding for the TB clinics and for the medical centres, and get the medicines out into those very remote communities that you talk about, when you're not even able to pay your bills at the moment? What is your solution to pay your bills right now? PETER O'NEILL: Well thank you, and I think your assessment is not quite true. Papua New Guinea Government has been able to raise funds within Papua New Guinea because of the high liquidity that we have in the economy. We are able to use the instruments of government – and treasury bills is one of them, where we issue it when we have to raise money to pay government bills. The only issue that we have been having in Papua New Guinea is that this culture of at the end of the year, the public servants go on a spending spree. This is a culture that we inherited from – thank you – from the Australian colonial … [Laughter] And we have taken it to the next level. [Laughter] So what we have done as a government when we found out that some of our departments have overspent in the last two weeks of the financial year last year, we reign in many of those cheques that were printed out, because they were printed to non-priority areas where Government has already cut spending. Today, Government is able to meet its payroll. Today's Government's able to meet all its commitments. So I really don't understand where you're getting this information that PNG is broke. I know that there are a few critics out there who continue to think otherwise, but when you have an economy that is growing at 9.2 per cent per annum, you must admit that there can be some challenges in trying to maintain that growth. We have deliberately entered into a deficit budget because of the slow down during the end of the construction period of the LNG project. As a result, there were many skilled – thousands of skilled Papua New Guineans who were not able to find jobs elsewhere. Government will increase its spending on infrastructure in the country, and as a result we put more and more funding in there, which enable Papua New Guineans who live in the LNG construction phase to move into construction sector. That is keep-ing Papua New Guineans' families' meals on the table. And again, I see that that is the right strategy so that it continues to stimulate the economy growth that we are con-tinuing to experience, and I can assure you that you ask me the same question again in November next year and I will tell you precisely where we have come from. MARK KENNY: Next question's from the West Australian's Andrew Tillett. QUESTION: Andrew Tillett from the West. Thank you for your speech today Prime Minister. Around Christmas time it was revealed that 15 Australian public servants who'd been succonded to the PNG bureaucracy were being kicked out of the country. These public servants had been seconded there to help with- improve corporate governance and eradicate corruption. Given that PNG is the biggest beneficiary of Australian foreign aid, I just wonder why shouldn't Australians be concerned about these sorts of actions, about the accountability for taxpayers' funds. PETER O'NEILL: I think there's a misconception that we're taking people out of those anti-corruption agencies. In fact, the people who have left, where public servants who are working there in our line departments employed as consultants to those departments, not necessarily from the Australian departments in Canberra, but they were working for the aid contractors, who were employed as consultants in those positions. Our government's position is very clear – we want them to be employed in the line departments, taking the line positions. Nobody was kicked out. We just changed the way we want to conduct our business. We want them to take ownership of decisions that they are making in the departments that they operate in, not necessarily consultants reporting to private companies on government business and our relationship with the Australian Government.

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The Australian Government understands that. They appreciate where we want to go. We are offering those employees contracts, what- coming and working for PNG Gov-ernment, under the supervision of the head of the department itself. So those Australians who have got PNG experience are most welcome to come back to PNG. We don't necessarily go around kicking people out of the country. Australians, tens of thousands of Australians continue to work and live in Papua New Guinea, and believe me, most of them don't want to come back to Australia. [Laughter] MARK KENNY: Interesting perspective. Next question's from SBS's Daniela Ritorto. QUESTION: Hello Prime Minister, Daniela Ritorto from SBS World News. I find it fascinating that you say that you've got better access to American and European markets for your goods than Australia and New Zealand, and indeed this week at the trade talks I think you said that you're not ready to sign this PACER Plus deal because the terms are indeed quite unfavourable to PNG and the other smaller islands. Are Australia and New Zealand playing unfair on this? PETER O'NEILL: There's some issues that we have with the PACER Plus negotiations that are going on, but we have agreed to many of the terms that are before us. I think those issues have been dealt with. There are one or two issues that we believe strongly that we need to discuss more, and we will continue to do so. So let me not pre-empt the outcomes of those negotiations, but I know that we will do the right thing. But main thing that we are encouraging is that we have a population of close to 20 million people who live in the Pacific. They need to be given opportunities – not merely just as a tourist destination for many of us larger countries in the region. We must engage with them meaningfully and engage with them such that they can have access to the markets that we have here. We are given access to others in the region; particularly the Asian communities have easy access to the Australian markets and the New Zealand markets than the Pacific Islanders. Those are the concerns that we have, so – we'll let our officials work it through. MARK KENNY: The Guardian's Shalailah Medhora. QUESTION: Prime Minister, Shalailah Medhora from The Guardian. I wanted to ask you, you spoke a little bit in your speech about corporate responsibility faced by Aus-tralian corporations, and I wanted to broaden that and ask you about responsibility faced by the Australian Government and Australian law officials. Since the Manus Island detention centre started, we've heard allegations against Australian staff members of theft, assault and even rape. Are you frustrated at I guess the impunity faced by some of these people and their, to date, inability or unwillingness to face the consequences in PNG? PETER O'NEILL: I'm very concerned about the issues that have been brought forward and we've, from time to time, highlighted that fact to our counterparts here in Austra-lia that they must be investigated and prosecuted according to PNG law. Unfortunately at times when the incidents happen, the persons concerned had been taken out of the country without the knowledge of the authorities on the ground, and these are sort of management issues that we need to overcome, and I believe that it doesn't matter who you are; you need to be held accountable for your actions, and if it means facing PNG law, which are largely based on common law in any case, they should be al-lowed to face the courts in PNG. MARK KENNY: The next question's from Michael Keating. QUESTION: Michael Keating from Keating Media, Prime Minister. Much has been made in Australia of our recent free trade agreements that we've completed. Would you like to see a free trade agreement with PNG? And also, you've mentioned a lot about trade and investment in PNG – what sectors do you think are the most beneficial for Australian businesses to invest in? PETER O'NEILL: We would – we'll look at the free trade agreements that have been signed by 13 or 14 countries recently are we are hoping that we will join very soon. And of course, the sort of trade and investment that Papua New Guinea is looking towards Australia is in many areas – manufacturing, large construction businesses, we have a lot of opportunities in the tourism sector, agriculture. When you talk about droughts in middle Australia, in Papua New Guinea you will find that we've got enough rainfall, the soil is very fertile, so large scale farming and agricultural businesses are something that will give a lot of opportunities to Australian businesses. We also are now opening up our country. We have indirect flights now to many parts of the- to Asia, Japan, Philippines, Hong King, Singapore. We are now negotiating to have access directly to Beijing, which is only eight and a half hours from Port Moresby. Those presents a lot of opportunities, and we are opening up our country to allow more visitors to come in. And for the record we also are, of course, allowing Australia to open up a second consulate office in Lae, in the Morobe province. Hopefully they will open up a third one in Mount Hagen in the near future, again enabling Australians and of course business community to travel freely. Our Government will shortly be making an announcement to lift the ban on the visa, enabling short-term visits to be visa on arrival for less than 30 days visa in Port Mo-resby. This is targeted at the young kids who are now walking the Kokoda Track and other areas like that. We want them to have an appreciation of the country, have a better relationship with PNG, and these short visits will enable them to do that. Of course, for business and employment you will have to go through our embassies, and that will cater for the visa arrangements that deal with that. But Papua New Guinea is opening up and we are open for business. MARK KENNY: It's a great pleasure to welcome back an old friend of the Press Club, Tim Colebatch from The Age. QUESTION: I'm no longer at the age Mark. MARK KENNY: Well that's what it says at least. I assumed … QUESTION: [Talking over] [indistinct] in The Age tomorrow, I gather – Inside Story. Mr O'Neill, you've been a very good guest today, and very diplomatic in what you've had to say, but I've got several things I'd like to ask you about that are running sores in your relations with Australia. I don't know whether I should ask them as one question or three. MARK KENNY: Let's just see how we go. QUESTION: Well I'll ask them as one. The first is to do with corruption and Australia's willingness to act as a recipient for corrupt funds. It's been alleged by one of your former colleagues – so that's Sam Koim – that Australia is the Cayman Islands of the Pacific in the way that it provides unlimited opportunities for corrupt officials to invest here. The ABS – Australian Bureau of Statistics – says Australia has received $5 billion in investment in five years from PNG nationals, a lot of which I gather goes into the Cairns property market. Are you pressing this in your visit here to Australia? And if so, what measures would you like the Australian Government to take?

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The second question. I know you're sitting next to the Minister and no doubt being a very good guest, but I'd like you to be a bad guest and tell us what has been the im-pact, or what will be the impact, on PNG of Australia's aid cuts? How will they affect your ability to deliver those services you were talking about? And finally, you made reference to- I think you surprised me certainly, and a lot of other people here, when you said Australia was a harder market for PNG to get into in a lot of areas than Europe and America. Can you give us some examples of what barriers you face? PETER O'NEILL: Sure. Well thank you again. And firstly, on the issue about Papua New Guinean funds being invested in Australia, let me put it on the record very clearly that there are many successful Papua New Guineans who, in their own right, are able to afford to invest in Australia and of course in the property market in Cairns and elsewhere. There is no doubt that the transfer of funds between the two countries have got vigorous scrutiny. If you wish to even pay bills for you schools, kids who are going to Australia, you have to go through the financial regulations bodies which clear those funds to come. So when you talk about corrupt funds coming to Australia there must be substantive evidence. Unfortunately, everybody jumps on the bandwagon of emotional statements without facts to support it. Now, there is no doubt the Australian Government has got access to the records about who owns properties in Australia and how it was applied, and there's nothing stopping the Australian Government, there is no requests from the Papua New Guinea Government into whether they should investigate further on how some of these properties were acquired. So we encourage Aus-tralian Government to do so. In Papua New Guinea, of course, it's an easy issue about corruption and politics. But when you look at the history of the country, since 1964 when self-government was introduced in Papua New Guinea to date, do a survey of the politicians who are in office and who have left office and find out how many of them are well off because of corrupt funds that they've acquired. Over 90 per cent of them today who have either left office or in office are struggling to even pay their own bills. So this notion that there is great wealth being acquired by Papua New Guinean politicians is ridiculous. We are doing all we can in Papua New Guinea now to introduce legislations like ICAC, which will be of the final reading in this March session, and we will receive overwhelming support from Parliament where the sorts of funds received by individuals in their wealth will be a subject of investigation, and of course they will be held accountable for them. They have to explain whether they had a rich grand-mother who passed on a lot of wealth to them. So those are legislations that we are now putting in place to address this issue. Even today, when you put more than 10,000 kina, transferring it out of Papua New Guinea, you must declare them to the financial intelligence unit who will give the necessary approval for you to do so. It must- the banks are working very closely, all the big banks who work in Papua New Guinea like Westpac, ANZ, BSP, all enforcing these regulations and rules to the strictest terms possible. So there is no uncertainty in that. The second issue is about the issue of trade barriers. MARK KENNY: Foreign aid I think PETER O'NEILL: Foreign aid and then- foreign aid, the cuts in the foreign aid issue is that basically of course it will affect services. But one thing that we would like to see is to reduce the number of consultants and contractors that are employed to work in Papua New Guinea. We appreciate very much, but in many cases are not showing the outcomes that we want. It is important that the Australian Government works closely with the priorities of our Government. Our focus is similar to that of the goals that have been set by the AusAID program – that is, health, education, law and order, strengthening the public service missionary, building infrastructure. So by work-ing closely with Papua New Guinean and aligning their spending to the Papua New Guinean Government spending we can not be seen as duplicating expenses and expen-diture on items that we can initially spread out combined resources together. So I think we can manage it a bit better, and of course the Ministerial Forum is starting to address that. The third issue on the trade barriers are the things like our fish, which is some of the fresh fish that you can find anywhere in the world. Even better access to European markets, duty free into Europe for our canned tuna, and we can do the same in Australia. So those are sort of the things that we are talking about. Our products are not able to access your markets, but we see a lot of Chinese and Thailand tuna here on the shelves of your supermarkets here. MARK KENNY: The next question is from The Australian's Sarah Martin. QUESTION: Thank you Mr O'Neill. I just wanted to ask you, there is an outstanding arrest warrant against you on corruption offenses – why aren't you prepared to be held to account by the Papua New Guinean courts? And secondly, you criticised one of my colleagues for his question on the country's financial situation; the country's transparency- the measure of transparency for the country's financial management is also going backwards. What are you going to do about that so we have a better understanding of what the country's financial position is? PETER O'NEILL: Well thank you very much, and I've been really meaning to- looking forward to the issue about the arrest warrant very clearly so that I can explain to you. Now, the arrest warrant is out basically because of me doing my job as Prime Minister. I give directions, so people think that I should be arrested for that. The issue about the forged letters, which came out of our office – which not even one staff member of the entire Prime Minister's department has stated that they drafted that letter for me, because I don't necessarily draft letters. The second issue is that this is about a legal case where the lawyer concerned has been employed by the previous Government. It was not engaged by our Government – who has received millions and millions of kina in legal fees over many, many years before our time. I have stated this very clearly to everybody in Papua New Guinea – show me where I have received one toea, if it's one kina or one toea, and I would resign tomorrow. You don't necessarily have to put the country to such a stress, but nobody has been able to do so because the financial beneficiaries of that particular transaction are not being held accountable. So we will allow the legal process to take its course, even the most contemned are given the right to be heard in our courts, so we will allow that to go. There is only one way of changing our Government in Papua New Guinea, that's through the elections- two ways: through the elections and through a vote of no confidence on the floor. You cannot change the Government in Papua New Guinea through the court system, that is very clear. So we will have our day in court, and the courts are coming out quite clearly so we'll see how it goes. Thank you. MARK KENNY: Final question today from Morris Riley. QUESTION: Prime Minister, thank you for coming to the Press Clubagain. I wanted to touch on Mark's introduction about the chances of an NRL team in PNG. Will that make part of your election platform for 2017? Can you share with us where you think that's at with the NRL, and are you confident about it actually being salvaged? It cer-tainly would be an excellent vehicle of soft diplomacy, you'd have to think. PETER O'NEILL: Well apart from the bad press that Papua New Guinea unnecessarily gets from time to time, we've inherited a lot of things Australians do. One of them is rugby league, the second one is the love of BBQs in Papua New Guinea, the third one is Melbourne Cup. We are the only country in the Pacific that goes on holidays with you at Melbourne Cup Day. [Laughter] We're the only country in the Pacific that smashes TV because our favourite State of Origin team lost. So you can see the passion of rugby league in Papua New Guinea, and I want to assure that our objective is to try and put a team in the NRL. And I know that from many discussions that our officials have had with NRL officials, they have no desire to expand the competition to a- from a 14 team competition to a 15 team competition. But let me put it this way, Papua New Guinea is the only place where you will find NRL teams playing, even at the club level the tickets will be sold out. Of course, Papua New Guinea is the only place where the entire country, it's got 8 million people who are the number one fan of rugby league. So where else can you promote rugby league? So that's a question for NRL to ponder on. Thank you. MARK KENNY: Thank you very much. Can you put your hands together for the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. [Applause] Now, Prime Minister, we don't like you to leave empty handed, even though you're not exactly a local to this area. Can I give you a copy of Stand and Deliver, which is a book of the speeches that have been made, contributions that have been made to this club over 50 years, written by our colleague Steve Lewis, and that comes with a membership card which, if nothing else, gets you free access to the carpark. [Laughter] Thank you very much. PETER O'NEILL: Thanks. [Applause] * * End * * TRANSCRIPT PRODUCED BY ISENTIA www.isentia.com

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The Annual General Meeting will be held at 4.00pm on Thursday, 28 April 2016 at

INA Boardroom, level 2, IPA Haus Konedobu

The AGM will be held after the Quarterly Meeting which will commence at 2.00pm

on Thursday, 28 April 2016 at

INA Boardroom, level 2, IPA Haus Konedobu

P FRANKLIN (President )

Volume 2, Issue 3

To download the full brochure for programme outline registration form to attend as a delegate, book a tradebooth, place an advertisement , please go to website: www.apngbc.org.pg


MARCH 2016

USEFUL INFORMATION—MIGRANT CRISIS IN EUROPE

EXPLAINED IN 7 CHARTShttp://www.bbc.com/news/world

-europe-34131911

230 cheap sturdy houses designed by an Australian Peter

Drysdale have survived Fiji’s devastating cyclone Winston.

Each house has 14 coils of steel strapping and 58 kilos of

nails. Each house could be built in 5 days and cost

$13,000 each. He designed the small simple houses to be

tough after decades spent rebuilding cyclone damaged

homes. Post Courier 3/3/2016

PACER PNG is insisting on removing the most favoured nation provision under PACER plus. It is also insisting that Australia and

NZ make legally binding commitments to assist Pacific Island Forum countries with trade facilitation and border trade assistance.

Ambassador Max Rai stated In 2014 PNG had trade deficits of K517m with NZ and K6.3 b with Australia. PNG needs to main-

tain its policy space to grow its agricultural and manufacturing industries. He stated that the 2009 EU interim partnership agree-

ment, gave PNG opportunity to maintain market access for Tuna and grew the industry to K2billion and created employment oppor-

tunities.

ACIAR has teamed up with PNGFP/RH/PRYDE FURNITURE/2 Balsa Manufacturers in Rabaul and ENB on an engineered wood

project valued at K3.7m. Project Leader Henri Bailleres Team Leader Forest Products Agri Science Queensland. M&E and PPP

are major components of the program.

The Engan Provincial Government has signed a K23 million agreement with Innovative Agro Industry Limited to establish a modern

high-intensive farm in Sirunki, Enga. PPP covers storage facilities, cooling centres, training centres, fertilisers and irrigations sys-

tems and water tankers and is expected to 2017 and create 100 jobs, and involve 320 families in producing vegetables

.

New Code of Conduct introduced for all NON Citizen Technical Advisors on 1/1/2016 (DPM Sec John Kali) Post courier 25/2/2016

Visas: Gopng is proposing K200 visa fees for tourists expected to raise K20m pa Post Courier 3/3/2015 p 4. This is not sup-ported by the Post courier editorial 7/3/2016 p 2—(claim that it is a disincentive to local industry according to PNG Divers Associa-tion Max Benjamin).(cost / process for Business Visas on page 12).

Proposed new Tourism visa will have negative affect—Peter Barter (Post Courier page 3 24 /2/2016) Most hotels in provinces have 10-40 occupancy. STC has advertised coastwatchers for sale; NAWAE has reduced workforce. Kwila Insurance closed.

Bilateral Trade between Australia and PNG is approx $6.8billion (K15.3 billion) and Australian Investment in PNG totals $19 bil-lion. The Ministerial forum allows productive dialogue on hways to strengthen trade and investment links between the 2 nations Post Courier 4/3/2016 p 30.


Bilateral Affairs, Trade & Investment

Each month the APNGBC NEWSLETTER provides a summary of local media and issues that we consider relevant news to our members . These Media Reports do not necessarily reflect the views of members.

MEDIA SUMMARY

WORLD AFFAIRS

Harwicks is a multi-services company, with expertise in a range of disciplines. Examples include:

Procurement & Logistics

Strategic Procurement exercises for GoPNG Agencies.

Delivering outsourced procurement for URS Australia with

Strongim Pipol Strongim Nesen (SPSN) in a number of prov-

inces.

Project Management:

Managing projects for the Royal Papua New Guinea

Constabulary (RPNGC) under the Police Modernization Pro-

gram throughout the nation.

Design:

Produced designs for the different centres including

Mt. Hagen, Lae, Madang Police Barracks for the Royal

Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC).

Harwicks Limited

P.O. Box 788

Gordons National Capital District

Papua New Guinea Ph: (675) 325 9477

Model TB Centre set up in Daru where there is a high number of TB cases (MRD and XDR) cases. 3 Hotspots are NCD, Gulf AND west-ern. GOPNG has allocated K8million which is part of the $40 million approved by GOPNG ‘s 12 mth emergency response. Post Courier 29/2/2015 p 14.

Asia Pacific Insititute of Applied Social, Economic and Technical Studies, (Thomas Pillar) announced a partnership with Tafe Queensland—(Courses are offered in Aviation/ Nursing/Marine Engineering). Post Courier 2/3/2015 p 9

Public service costs consume 65% of National budget—O’neill has stated it must be trimmed at Leaders summit 18/2/2016. The National p3.

Police Commissioner Gary Baki reported that RPNGBC had made a mess of the K276m 5 year police modernisation program in the first 24 months because they lack project management skills. Page 3 The National 18/2/2016. An independent interdepartmental committee to be created to oversee project management page 29 Post Courier 24/2/2016.

Air Nuigini has announced a K3.11 m confirmed for Boeing deal (downpayment K1m made) 4 new B737 ordered at a cost of (USD$440 m). Next instalment due 2018. TEST charters to Micronesia

(Ponape and Truuk) in Sept 2016. A second flight to Narita will begin in July 2016. Hagen to Jayapura is subject to CASA approval and expected mid year. Port Vila via Honiara have commenced. 29/3/ 2016 Post Courier. Jacksons is to be upgraded (K3 billion) in prepa-ration for APEC

Bob Tate (PNG Forestry) commented that impact on business should be considered prior to introduc-

tion of 100% down stream processing or ban on Log Exports, there will be job losses on logging projects if 100% downstream processing is pursued. Post Courier page 20 , 25/2/2016

Sirinumu dam is at 29.4 % of capacity—water conservation is critical - Eda Ranu 24/2/2016. Telikom PNG, owner of EMTV, will be streamlining operations and aims to provide all in one service ie

for one broad band, it is mobile or fixed we aim to provide (fm100 services / emtv services / internet services / data services (described as triple play) according to Mahesh Patel Telikom Chairman. Telikom intends to recapitalise Media Nuigini Ltd and progress the transition from analogue to digital and to plan a training school for local journalists in TV production. Page 19 Post Courier 9/3/2016.

The Ramu power system master plan to optimise the power generation address system expansion

whilst at the same time stablislise the power supply (2016-2030) was discussed by NEWJEC INC, PNG POWER AND Department of Petro-leum and Energy. The JICA team recommend as a shortterm measure to introduce a sequential switching system. Recommendations are to replace / rehabilitate inefficient stations, rehabilitate some hydropower stations and develop large scale hyro plans such as ramu 2 and Mongi-Bulum.

PNGCCI President John Leahy welcomed Chinese delegation from SHENZHEN. He encouraged Technical Assistance on Agricul-tural extension consistent with the maritime silk road strategy; encouraged development of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture. PNGCCI is working with PITIC and SunYat Sen University to acquire TA in Aquaculture. A sister port agreement has been signed between PNG Ports and Shenzhen Port. He assured that a national transmission network is being built to address delivery of fast internet. PNG needs access to cheap reliable power as a prerequisite to economic growth.

Dr Paul Barker (INA) at the Leaders Summit 2016, stated the following were needed in PNG:High Accommodation costs needed to be addressed; An major effort to rightsize the public service; Diversification of the economy;Reduction in High energy costs; In-crease in agriculture and tourism investment

KUTUBU CONVENTION CENTRE (3900 sqm +441 cars) / HILTON HOTEL (212 room+140 APARTS)—(Star Mountains Plaza

Project). The state will invest 1.5 b into the Star Mountain Plaza Project through a special purpose State owned company (apec

Infrastructure Investment Corporation) It is expected that this facility will host the APEC. (Stage 1—1.1b (Gopng will contribute 222

m) (Stage 2 450m—Gopng will contribute K94m). Post Courier 3/3/2016. page 9

Health

MEDIA SUMMARY Continued

Governance

AVIATION

FORESTRY

MAJOR REGIONAL MEETINGS: ACP / APEC / PNGCCI

TVET

WATER SUPPLY

Volume 2, Issue 3

MEDIA / COMMUNICATIONS

LAE POWER PLAN

Roads update Works Secretary (David Wereh) 75 % of network is in poor condition however in the short term, the following projects are planned. (19/2/2016– The National)

GOA commitment of K200m for coastal provinces 2015-18

ADB—K2.5 B infrastructure bridges/roads

WORLD BANK K500 m Investment program—scheduled (5 year ) Magi/Hiritano (East cape & Milne Bay

JICA K150 m for Bougainville and West New Britain. Don Polye said there is no liquidity to stimulate growth the UBS loan was a mistake and PNG should have invested income from LNG into a Sovereign Wealth Fund, thereby avoiding current economic crisis today, PNG would have had capacity to absorb global shocks. (Leaders Summit 2016).

PNG is well paced to weather current low world oil price but GOPNG and Bsuiness need to work together to achive this ac-cording to Peter Botten (Oil Search MD). In spite of world oversupply, PNG is better placed than other produces to to low oper-

ating costs of US$13 per barrel. Page 19 Post Courier 18/2/2015.

Ok Tedi is poised to be profitable when it resumes operation 1/2/3015—Peter Graham (MD Ok Tedi) P 19 P Courier 18/2/2015

The PNG Liquified National Gas Project Landowners from the 5 impacted provinces now have a company to participate in the

Project. The company is called Last to First Papua PNGLNG Equity Holdings Ltd, is registered to manage benefits cur-

rently managed by Kumul Petroum Holdings ltd. Post Courier 2/3/2015 page 9.

The Kumul Petroleum Group has extended the financing arrangement for the K3billion UBS Loan for the State’s 10% share in

Oil Search. This represent extension of low cost financing and continues to be secured by shares in Oil Search. This means

cashflows due to Kumul from the LNG remain outside of financing arrangement.

Newcrest reported K191,490m profit 29/2/2016. (Lihir—opertational improvements planned and production increase 37%)

(Wafi Golpu is a world glass growth option and Newcrest aims for active exploration and early stage entry program.).

Total SA to finalise ELK/Antelope Appraisals in 2016 (Papua Liquified Natural Gas). The operational transition is now complete

from Interoil. Between POM and PRL operational sites. There are 60-70 national staff are employed and more of them working

on PRL—15 as contractors.Page 19 Post Courier 18/2/2015.

Puma adds 4 new tanks to refinery—current investment totals K250 m. Bravo Wharf expanded capacity by 30% to service a

suez max vessel 167 tons) page 7, Post Courier 10/3/2016.

Crater Gold Mining Limited announced the upgraded gold mining plant has been transported to the HGZ project in Eastern

Highlands Province and commissioning will commence. They anticipate producing 10,000 oz in year 1 at an all-in cash cost of

below $400/oz. The SAW zone presents an opportunity for a longer mine life operation (ie the current JORC compliant re-

source at the nearby Mixing Zone Project at Crater Mountain. p7, Post Courier 10/3/2016.

Mining / resources

Economics and Infrastructure

Dr Omaru said that the chronic underinvestment in agriculture , the legal vacuum and subsequent lack of accountability and

funding should be addressed in both the AAA bill and the AIC bill (Dr Omuru) PC 18/2/2016.

Innovative Agro Industry wants tax and business inventives to be made available to the sector. He provided the example of Fiji,

where they have exemption from import and customs duties and 13 year tax Holiday. IAI thus far they have invested K80m and

are planning to invest another K200 (ilIimo Dairy Farm ; training service centre in Enga, East Sepik and an Agro industrial cen-

tre in New Ireland 18/2/2016 p 25 Post Courier.

FDPA GM says bulb onion makes up 81% of import volume and other banned crops make up 19%. PNG has capacity to pro-

duce and supply domestic market. 18/2/2016 The National page 21. The Agricullture import bill is 2 billion and only 3% of total

land mass in PNG is being used for Agriculture (Dr Jacob Weiss). The National p4 18/2/2016

New Britain Palm Oil (Robert Nilkare) advised Leaders summit that a PPP would be welcomed.

Volume 2, Issue 3

AGRICULTURE

BUSINESS CATEGORY This Category now comprises the following classes: · Short-Term Single Entry: Persons entering PNG for a single visit (to attend business meetings, board meetings, confer-ences, conduct an exploratory business visit or participate in business negotiation). · Short-Term Multiple Entry: Persons entering PNG on multiple visits during a single twelve month period (to attend business meetings, board meetings, conferences, conduct an exploratory business visit or participate in business negotiation). Dependents Dependents of Business Entry Permit Holders can apply for a Tourist Entry Permit at PNG Diplomatic Missions or upon arrival at Port Moresby International Airport (subject to eligibility). Validity Short-term Single entry: The Business Short-Term Single Entry Permit is valid for thirty (30) days per visa. Employment prohibited. Short-term Multiple entry: The Business Short-term Multiple Entry Permit is valid for 12 months with a stay of up to 60 days permitted on each arrival. Employment prohibited. How To Apply 1. Complete the Application for Entry Permit (Form 1) 2. Pay the MSF as set out in the Entry Permit Fee Form and provide receipt. 3. Provide documentary evidence as follows: · Letter from business associate in PNG indicating purpose of visit, duration of stay, loca-tion of business, and proposed frequency of visits; · Evidence of return/on-going ticket.

Where To Apply Short-term Single entry: Applications should be lodged at any PNG Diplomatic Mission before travel, or upon arrival for eligible passport holders at Jacksons International Airport, Port Moresby. Applicants who are Nationals of countries listed as being ineligible for an Entry Permit on arrival must apply for an Entry Permit prior to arrival in PNG. Short-term Multiple entry: Applications should be lodged at any PNG Diplomatic Mission. Not available on arrival. Fees Short-term Single entry: A fee of K500 is payable with each visa/entry. Short-term Multiple entry: A fee of K1000 will apply for each visa. Extension Of Stay Extensions are prohibited for both Short-term Single Entry and Short-term Multiple Entry visas.

Volume 2, Issue 3

WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS FOR A SHORT TERM BUSINESS VISA

Members asked about Short term Bus iness Visas


PNG PUBLIC

HOLIDAYS— 2016

New Year ’ s Day— Friday, 1st January 2016

Good Friday— 25th March 2016

Easter Saturday— 26th March 2016

Easter Sunday— 27th March 2016

Easter Monday— 28th March 2016

Queen ’ s Birthday—Monday, 13th June 2016

National Remembrance Day

Saturday, 23rd July, 2016

National Repentance Day

Friday, 26th August 2016

Independence Day

Friday, 16th September 2016

Christmas Day

Sunday, 25th December 2016

Boxing Day

Monday 26th, December 2016

Tuesday 27th, December 2016

( X MAS DAY ) PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Office closed from Friday, 16 December 2016 - Sunday 1st

January inclusive. Office reopens Monday, 2nd January 2017.

Australian Ministry update19 Feb 2016

Barnaby Joyce—Deputy PM

Mathias Cormann—Finance Minister.

Peter Dutton—Immigration Minister

Steve Ciobo - Trade Minister

Darren Chester—Infrastructure Minister

Alan Tudege – Human Services Minister

Matt Canaavan Minister for Northern Australia

Dan Tehan—Minister for Defence / Veterans Services

New Nationals Deputy leader—Fiona Nash—Minister for

Regional communications

Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells—International and

Pacific Minister

Established in 1980 the Council is a non-profit association of Australia-based businesses with interests in Papua New Guinea. The management of the Council is vested under the constitution in an Executive Committee, headed by a President

and three Vice-Presidents, elected at an Annual General Meeting of members.

The Council’s goals are to advance the interest of Australia business in Papua New Guinea by:

1. increasing trade and investment between Australia and Papua New Guinea;

2. encouraging the further development and expansion of the Papua New Guinea economy;

representing Australian business interests to the Australian and Papua New Guinea governments;

providing a network of business people with shared interests in Papua New Guinea.

Australia Papua New Guinea Business Council PNG

PO Box 1621, Port Moresby NCD

Level 2, IPA Haus, Lawes Road, Konedobu

Phone: 321 0966/321 3057

Mobile: 7283 4313

WHAT IS THE AUSTRALIA PAPUA NEW GUINEA BUSINESS

COUNCIL?

HOW DOES THE COUNCIL ACHIEVE ITS GOALS?

The Council advances Australian business interests in Papua New Guinea through:

the holding of trade, investment and information seminars on Papua New Guinea:

participation in regular bilateral Ministerial talks to discuss major policy issues of concern to Australian busi-

ness;

submissions to government on policy matters affecting Australian business interests in Papua New Guinea:

the receiving and sending of trade and investment delegations between Australia and Papua New Guinea:

dissemination to members of information on current economic, political and social developments in Papua New

Guinea:

Have you visited

our website? www.apngbc.org.pg

We have a monthly

newsletter posted on site

mid month

Nalini Nandanhallt Corporate Services Manager Australia Papua New Guinea Business Council (PNG) Tel: + 675 321 0966 Mobile: +675 7283 4313 Email: [email protected] Naomi Stanley Accounts Administrator Tel :+675 321 0966 Mobile: + 675 725 76047 Email: [email protected]

Volume 2, Issue 3

ELECTED EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

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