Bougainville Mining Bill 2014 in ABG Parliament
The Autonomous Bougainville Government is debating the new Bougainville Mining (Transitional Arrangements) Bill 2014 this week with a vote expected on Friday 8th August. Until the bill was made available this morning via the PNG Mine watch website, most people had yet to see the bill, indeed most Bouganvillians...
A people impoverished and humiliated by Rio Tinto
Bougainville’s Sir Paul Lapun speaks out On the 14th of April 1988, Sir Paul Lapun – the legendary MP for Bougainville (1964-77) who passed away in 2003 – sat down with Rio Tinto’s historian to talk about the great fraud forced upon his people, and the long struggle they...