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...Facing similar youth bulges in their populations, and a paucity of jobs, South Pacific leaders - notably Papua New Guinea's Sir Michael Somare and Fiji's Laisenia Qarase - have been lobbying the region's wealthy states to open up their labor markets. Issuing short-term visas for unskilled workers is not a new idea. But with Australia and New Zealand seeking closer engagement in the Pacific, many of the region's respected voices feel a guest-worker scheme is ripe for a trial. "We have a lot of people looking for work, and they are not lazy," says Rick...
...labor and permanent migration schemes, he argues, offer the best long-term options for poor and rich economies alike: "For one thing, Australia won't need to keep paying aid money, and it will get the benefit of the labor." At last week's Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Papua New Guinea, the 16 member states agreed to an extensive reform plan on economic integration, governance and security. But Prime Minister John Howard, reflecting longstanding opposition to guest workers, would not be swayed on a proposal to allow seasonal labor into Australia. "We apply an open, non-discriminatory immigration policy...
...most popular animals, and traders are forced to go farther afield to secure their prey. Poachers looking to fill orders for the popular pig-nosed turtle, which is prized both as a pet and for its meat, have to venture as far as the remote Indonesian province of Papua. Those pursuing live reef fish, a Chinese delicacy particularly popular in booming southern China, have appeared in the Solomon Islands and on the island of Mauritius off the coast of Africa...
...Connolly's account of how he and Anderson navigated the undertow of tribal life - the extortion attempts, deep friendships and, finally, death threats - tells as much of life in Papua New Guinea as the Ganiga's grim story does. When Connolly found himself armed and listening for assassins in the dark, they knew it was time to leave. Now, three years after Anderson's death, he remains ambivalent about another major documentary project. He says Anderson herself, whose voice, analytical and wry, runs through the book, was having doubts about observational documentaries before her death: "The whole moral thing about...
...Going through his wife's possessions in the dark months that followed, Connolly came across the diaries she'd kept in 1990 during their year living in a grass hut making Black Harvest (1992), the third in their trilogy set in the wildly beautiful Highlands of Papua New Guinea. A planned book on their experience was never finished, waylaid by other projects, such as their celebrated 1996 take on the overheated jostling during the mayoral contest in an inner-Sydney city council, Rats in the Ranks. So when Connolly took up the book again 12 years...