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	Western Province
		Western Province, on the southern coast, bordering Irian Jaya, is a perfect destination for fishermen, photographers and lovers of flora and fauna.
		Lake Murray, in the centre of the province, is the biggest lake in Papua New Guinea.
		Western Province is home to the giant OK Tedi gold and copper mine, one of the largest mines in the world.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /png/about_destin/flyriveregion.html (444 words)

	Chapter 2 - Colonialism and Development [in - Problems with devolution of PNG Education by Gabriel Kulwaum, Papua New ...
		The arbitrary border between PNG and Indonesia demonstrates the historical construction of PNG as a nation-state and is of current political interest because of the location of the profitable giant Ok Tedi Mine (Jackson, 1984) along the border between the two countries.
		The PNG Government fears the creation of a dependency relationship on foreigners because they have the power of the purse: for after all, if they can control the economy of the country, it is possible they can also control the government and influence the formulation and implementation of key policy decisions.
		The political leaders of PNG thus recognised that despite political independence, which had supposedly marked the end of colonialism, the task of shifting the colonial administrative structures, which had become firmly rooted in the very formation of the nation-state, would not be an easy one.
	www.pngbuai.com /300socialsciences/education/policy/development/kul-devolution-chap2.html (19259 words)

	Western Province, Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Western Province is a coastal province in southwestern Papua New Guinea, bordering the Indonesian province of Papua.
		and is the largest province in Papua New Guinea by area, there are approximately 126,411 inhabitants.
		There are several large rivers that run through the province including the Fly River and its tributaries including the Strickland and Ok Tedi rivers, the larget lake in Papua New Guinea Lake Murray is also in Western Province.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Province,_Papua_New_Guinea (134 words)

	Sydney Morning Herald - Daily News - Villagers urged to avoid burn-offs
		Only a trickle left...Mr Harry Namaweng, 50, on the banks of the Fly River in PNG's Western Province, where a refugee camp that was home to more than 600 people was reported destroyed by bush fires yesterday in the wake of PNG's worst drought in 50 years.Photograph by RICK STEVENS.
		A refugee camp in PNG's Western Province, home to more than 600 people from Indonesia's adjoining Irian Jaya province, has been reported destroyed by bush fires and there are fears for the extensive rainforest which covers much of the country.
		A RAAF Caribou will arrive in PNG next week and is likely to assist in transporting relief assessment teams around the Gulf and Central provinces.
	www.niu.edu /newsplace/intlnews13.html (360 words)

	Torres Strait Regional Authority
		It allows the traditional inhabitants of 14 Australian Torres Strait Islander communities and 13 PNG Western Province villages to move quite freely, to fish across the whole of what is known as a ‘protected zone’, to barter and trade, and to carry out all forms of religious and social ceremonies.
		It is clear that the PNG and Australian aid agencies, such as AUSAID are finding it increasingly difficult to meet the growing needs of the people of Western Province.
		There is a need to build significant capacity within the Western Province to enable the people to better manage their own affairs and to bring these problems under control.
	www.tsra.gov.au /www/index.cfm?pageID=301 (777 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - PNG Western Province governor seeks legal details on logging permit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Governor of Papua New Guinea's Western Province says he wants to ensure all legal requirements have been followed in the issuing of a major new logging permit for his province.
		PNG's Forests Minister this week granted the permit to log more than 200,000 hectares at East Awin, in the Western Province after a number of delays.
		Western Provincial Governor, Bob Danaya, says he is seeking access to all documents related to the permit.
	www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_991984.htm (242 words)

	Papua New Guinea Tourism Resources Online - About Us
		PNG Eco-Adventure Tours Ltd is a fully national-owned tourism company engaged in in-bound tour operations.
		Owned and operated by Samson Komati Yuimb of Kokop Village in Western Highlands Province, PNG Eco-Adventure Tours is a small start-up venture aimed at immersing each traveler in a rich rural village-based, eco-adventure experiences.
		If you plan on visiting PNG and are traveling to any of the highlands provinces, do not hesitate to contact us to show you around Western Highlands or the other four highlands provinces.
	www.geocities.com /skyfdn/aboutus.html (367 words)

	Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		What is environmentally acceptable in PNG may not be acceptable in other rich countries like Australia, New Zealand and the United staes.
		As we have seen, Ok Tedi alone produces 8.5% of all the goods and services in PNG and it provides jobs to more than 1000 people, supports landowners in the immediate vicinity of the mine and those on the river system whose lives and environments are affected.
		We have to apply PNG laws and customs to each decision to make sure that we get all the potential benefits from each project and that costs such as the damage to the environment are properly measured and taken into account.
	www.postcourier.com.pg /20000107/focus.htm (1514 words)

	OTML at a Glance
		The PNG Government holds equity directly (15 per cent), and on behalf of the Western Province (12.5 per cent) and landowners from the mine area (2.5 per cent).
		The PNGSDPL's dividends from OTML are ultimately for the benefit of the people of the Western Province and Papua New Guinea generally, in the form of sustainable development projects.
		In preparing for mine closure, OTML is working with Western Province communities and governments to plan for life after the mine.
	www.oktedi.com /aboutus (468 words)

	A report on the Politics of Irian
		Blood from a stone In a war the world forgot the indigenous Melanesian people from the western half of the world's second largest island have been waging a battle for their very survival in what must be one of the Australian media's most neglected areas of coverage in more than three decades.
		The latest wave of PNG border crossers are stranded in Kiunga in PNG's Western Province after increased fighting between Indonesian and OPM forces and their mortal fear of the mass Transmigration program.
		In a recent issue of the 'Times Of PNG' The 6000 refugees state that they "feel secure and happier to stay in the unofficial camps because they are staying on their own tribal land" 6 One tends to wonder about the other reasons behind this comment.
	www.irja.org /politics/tim.htm (1609 words)

	Essential Oil Industry in Papua New Guinea
		PNGs Western Province is disadvantaged due to its remoteness, and various attempts over the years to establish income generating industries - including rice and rubber production and crocodile and deer farming -have failed.
		The overall objective is to instigate a package of activities to facilitate sustainable development of a community-based essential oil industry in Western Province of PNG.
		The project aims to use the region's woody plant species and be accordant with the many constraints placed on the endeavour by the region's remoteness and lack of infrastructure.
	www.ffp.csiro.au /tigr/atscmain/whatwedo/projects/pngoil/pngoil.htm (793 words)

	Garden State EnviroNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		PNG's rainforests are toast and its peoples doomed to poverty for the rest of time.
		It is the PNG Government that decides where logging operations go and Rimbunan Hijau carries out the logging in accordance with PNG laws, he says.
		In the letter to PNG's Forest Board, Lau boasts that he told Kalinoe to intervene and object to the suggestion the timber permits could be terminated and "direct the state negotiation team to address the annual allowable cut by considering economic parameters as a matter of priority".
	www.gsenet.org /newsstnd/fcn.php (9972 words)

	The Pacific: Uninvited Guests - NI 101 - Mixed fortunes at Ok Tedi
		Especially attractive was the knowledge that, with the mine being in an almost inaccessible area, it would be an enclave project with little or no immediate impact on the lives of the bulk of the nation's population.
		It is highly critical of the government's role in the mine's development, especially of its failure to adequately protect the interests of the people who live in the area of the mine.
		While the mine is expected to add 11 per cent to the PNG GDP (1979 prices), the report warns that the local people could find themselves third class citizens in their own home villages as the area is increasingly flooded by highly paid expatriates.
	www.newint.org /issue101/fortunes.htm (1628 words)

	ACIAR - Project Summary for: FST/1998/113 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In the Western Province of PNG there is a strong demand for medicinal essential oils, currently met by expensive imported oils.
		Outputs from the PNG components of the project are to determine socio-economic issues and work towards their resolution, map and provide quantitative information on the extent of the resource of the two main target species, Asteromyrtus symphyocarpa and Melaleuca quinquenervia.
		In Western Province, PNG Progress against objective 3 — Map distribution, collect wood cores and propagation materials of Western Province sandalwood This project sought to explore the occurrence of PNG sandalwood, Santalum macgregorii, in Western Province and its potential as a commercial source of high-value essential oil.
	www.aciar.gov.au /web.nsf/projectprint/ACIA-68K3KP?opendocument (1747 words)

	West Papua - Refugees
		The PNG government and the UNHCR have a policy encouraging voluntary repatriation to West Papua.
		Under the control of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Border Affairs Division of the PNG Department of Village Services and Provincial Affairs is East Awin, with 3,400 refugees.
		Funding for the large East Awin camp, located in PNG's Western Province, has been provided mainly by Australia (AusAID), and the UNHCR is committed to reducing its role in the administration.
	www.cs.utexas.edu /users/cline/papua/refugees.htm (577 words)

	List discussion - KONA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		At East Awin, Western Province PNG - the place of my fieldwork 1998-99 - 'corner' was used by Malay speaking West Papuans.
		UNHCR and the PNG government established East Awin as a relocation place in 1987; a composite camp comprising up to 20 smaller camps (population approx.
		After working all over over PNG on the ag systems surveys, the only place I ran into "corner" was in Western Province.
	coombs.anu.edu.au /SpecialProj/PNG/MIHALIC/M2/LetterK/LIST_kona.htm (637 words)

	Oceania: Critically Modern: alternatives, alterities, anthropologies
		According to conceptual and intellectual historians of Western societies, such as Koselleck and Blumenberg, the post-Enlightenment modern entails an unique temporality, where the future is one of indeterminate progress.
		This ideology of progress cannot be divorced from the expansive colonization of Western societies into all parts of the globe.
		The analysis is guided more by the trope of the oxymodern (and the striking effect of the images on the reader) than with an analysis of the views of villagers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3654/is_200403/ai_n9399688 (1353 words)

	Threat to shut OK Tedi down
		Western Province Governor Dr Bob Danaya yesterday threatened to join landowners and shut the OK Tedi mine if OTML did not shed more light on the Singapore-based PNG Sustainable Development Program Limited (PNGSDP).
		Dr Danaya said he and the other Western Province MPs tried to get the meeting deferred to today as the province's political leaders were yet to be briefed on the issues including PNGSDP.
		It is a trade-off for the environmental damage (caused by the mine).
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press104.htm (370 words)

	Print page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The continuation of efforts to encourage PNG and Indonesian collaboration should be given priority in view of the political and economic instability in those countries.
		The PNG Chief Veterinary Officer will be participating in a NAQS domestic survey of the Torres Strait and several other PNG scientists have been funded to attend scientific training courses in Australia and Thailand to facilitate surveillance in PNG.
		Such areas are to be identified on the basis of particular risk posed by exotic pests because of the presence of significant host populations (plant/animal) and a clearly identified pathway for the introduction of exotic pests.
	www.affa.gov.au /content/print.cfm?objectid=30B321DF-F935-4948-8C6950619C38539F&showdocs=all (3093 words)

	Death Adders Acanthophis: An overview, including descriptions of FIVE new species and ONE subspecies.
		Populations of Acanthophis from Western Australia and the Northern Territory formerly referred to as this species are now classified as A.
		It is not proper for one group of workers to apparantly monopolise a species and then fail to publish on it within an acceptable period, noting that 6 years is deemed by this author to be an unacceptable delay.
		Another example is the apparent suppression of a name given by Wells and Wellington in 1985 to the western form of "Children's Python", subsequently re-named as "stimsoni" again in violation of the ICZN priority rule.
	www.smuggled.com /addtax2.htm (10127 words)

	PapuaWeb: S3(PhD) Glazebrook 2001 - ringkasan (abstract) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Behind events of West Papuan flight into PNG seeking political asylum, lies a foment of collective memories of suffering, or memoria passionis, since the period of Indonesian colonisation.
		PNG's offer of permissive residency, necessitating the withdrawal of UNHCR involvement, was interpreted by some refugees as a ruse to compel their repatriation because they could not endure exile without UNHCR guardianship.
		Others conceived permissive residency in PNG in tactical terms as a status allowing them to continue the struggle to reclaim their West Papuan nationhood, from a place of exile.
	www.papuaweb.org /dlib/s123/glazebrook/_rk.html (368 words)

	[Kabar-Irian] Irian News - 9/27/04 (Part 1 of 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ABC Radio Australia News 27/09/2004 17:02:52 PNG relocates refugees from Indonesia's Papua province In Papua New Guinea, around 200 refugees from the Indonesian province of Papua are being moved to a new camp in the remote Western Province.
		Our PNG correspondent, Shane McLeod, says the refugees have been living in a makeshift village near the border town of Vanimo for nearly four years.
		After PNG plans to repatriate many of them were abandoned in March last year, the government and the United Nations refugee body, the UNHCR, are this week moving the refugees to a camp at East Awin in the remote Western Province.
	www.kabar-irian.com /pipermail/kabar-irian/2004-September/000557.html (4072 words)

	MarijuanaNews.Com, Freedom has nothing to fear from the truth
		He said PNG had an established market for firearms and the organised trade was hard to detect because of geography.
		PNG’s western province is only a few kilometres from the Cape and shallow waters are easily crossed.
		AFP intelligence also suggested problems were being compounded by lack of PNG police resources and an expected tide of refugees, as a result of the Asian economic meltdown, landing in Australia.
	www.marijuananews.com /marijuananews/cowan/australians_discover_new_cost_of.htm (474 words)

	PNG MINING COMPANY REVISES LANDOWNER AGREEMENT - November 3, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The transfer of the equity to the landowners and FPG from the National Government is defined under two different heads of agreements executed in 1997 and 1999 and has since been managed by Mineral Resources Development Company.
		Meanwhile, Western Province Governor Bob Danaya recently said K100 million (US$31.4 million) will be used for infrastructure and sustainable development projects in the province.
		A small portion of the funds would be put for future generations in terms of economic activities such as rubber, oil palm, fishing he said.
	pidp.eastwestcenter.org /pireport/2004/November/11-03-06.htm (579 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - West Papuan border-crossers to settle in PNG's Western Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		They have now agreed to join the other crossers who have been granted refugee status in East Awin in Western province.
		PNG court dismisses attempted murder case against provincial governor
		PNG court drops bribery case against opposition MP
	www.abc.net.au /asiapacific/news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_1210008.htm (150 words)

	Ok Tedi settlement rejected
		The recent settlement of the case brought by PNG Western Province landowners against BHP Billiton (BHP-B) and Ok Tedi Mining Ltd failed to reflect the wishes of a significant portion of the class action participants.
		A primary aim of the current court case was to prevent the Ok Tedi mine from continuing to dump mine wastes directly into the river and to force BHP-B and OTML to deal with the serious problems associated with ongoing river pollution.
		Even though the purpose of the newsletter was to instruct the remaining plaintiffs in the case about their right to object to the proposed settlement, the newsletter erroneously asserts that: "the court case has been dismissed and an Out-of-Court agreement has been reached." The Courts allowed the settlement to procede despite this eggregrious assertion.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Company/oktedi3.htm (453 words)

	Planet Ark
		The World Bank has told the PNG government that the mine should be shut down as soon as possible on environmental grounds.
		The mine, located in the rugged Star Mountains near the Irian Jaya border, is the only major source of employment in the remote and thinly populated Western Province of PNG.
		BHP, which has a 52 percent stake in the mine, has said it was not comfortable operating the mine but the PNG government, which owns 30 percent, is considered unlikely to want to close it before the end of its planned life in 2010.
	www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=5900 (635 words)

	Death Adders (Genus: Acanthophis): An Updated overview, including descriptions of 3 New Island species and 2 New ...
		Diagnosis: Known from Millstream and adjacent parts of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, including Pannawonica and 60 km NNW of Newman, WA, where it is very common (Ball 1993).
		It was noted that to date in 1998 they had chosen not to describe it as a new species and hence this author’s decision to assign it the name wellsei in 1998..
		Distribution: restricted to the Cape Range area of Western Australia, where it is most common in hilly areas and near watercourses.
	www.smuggled.com /addtax3.htm (15198 words)

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