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Publisher’s Note

By Samisoni Pareti
Managing Director / Publisher
Samisoni Pareti
Group Editor-in-Chief Leadership changes
Samisoni Pareti
Editorial Consultant and whirlwind visits
Samantha Magick

A change of Prime Minister in Papua
Design Consultant New Guinea and a flying visit by the
Dick Lee United Nations Secretary General
Main Correspondents António Gueterres were two epoch-
Fiji Anish Chand making events in the region over the
past month.
Australia Nic Maclellan
Who would have thought that Peter
Cook Islands Helen Greig O’Neill, the seventh prime minister of in-
Kiribati Taberannang Korauaba dependent PNG, would lose that shroud
of invincibility he always seemed to
French Polynesia Nic Maclellan
surround himself with? Experts will
New Caledonia Nic Maclellan tell you that there were many reasons
New Zealand Jason Brown for the change in PM, although from
Niue Naea Michael Jackson where we sit on this side of the ocean,
the general unhappiness of the general
Papua New Guinea Sam Vulum
population, the perceived rise in corrup-
Patrick Matbob tion, a runaway law and order situation UN SG in Suva Photo: Fiji Government
Samoa Taina Kami-Enoka and the widening gulf between the
haves and the have-nots finally caught
Solomon Islands Priestly Habru
up with the leaders in Waigani, fuelling
Tonga Iliesa Tora a major defection from O’Neill’s party to
Vanuatu Bob Makin that of the opposition. denier, so presentations made to him
perhaps should have been heavy on
It will also be interesting to study the strategies on how to convince polluters
impact of social media in the political
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