There are many people commenting online on the impacts of
decisions taken by the current Papua New Guinea government. Many express their
feelings about a looming fiscal crisis, these range from fury to indifference.
In the haste for change once again it is easy to assume that a new crop of
freshly elected leaders in a newly constituted PNG parliament after 2017 will
miraculously create the change PNG needs!
We must not forget that the same
laws will apply in the same national parliament and provincial houses of
assembly. In the same national and district courtrooms, case law will grow and
precedents will continue to be set in the absence of the hard questions that
may never get asked about the blatant breaches in our society and adopted
system of government.
Our broken service delivery system
and our overheated economy will need more than elected candidates with tunnel
vision.