Despite being Australia’s closest neighbour, Papua New Guinea (PNG) rarely receives coverage in the media. I investigated the reality in the PNG province of Bougainville, when mining company Rio Tinto exploited the area with its polluting copper mine in the 1970s and 1980s, in my Disaster Capitalism book and film.
NGO Jubilee Australia recently released two startling reports on the murky PNG LNG plant along with the associated corruption. The country deserves far better from its leaders, Australia and corporate backers.
I was interviewed about these issues on ABC Radio’s Pacific Mornings this week. The program reaches across the Pacific:
210518 PacMo – Antony Lowenstein
ABC Radio Pacific Morning interview on Papua New Guinea and disaster capitalism
