Top investment and industry leaders in Australia will gather in Brisbane today (Thursday August 27) to hear the assessment of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill.
It will be a prime minister pumped up from an apparently successful visit to India and agreement with that country for soft loans and improved ties between the two countries.
Mr O’Neill will deliver the keynote address this morning at the annual Papua New Guinea Advantage Investment Summit.
The summit is a two-day conference on “the Pacific’s fastest growing economy and Australia’s nearest neighbor …..Papua New Guinea’’.
It’s being held at the Brisbane Exhibition and Convention Centre at Southbank and will feature presentations, panel discussions, and question and answer sessions on the PNG economy.
After Mr O’Neill’s address, the next figure stepping up to the speaker podium is Governor of the Bank of PNG Loi Bakani, to provide an economic update.
This will be followed by a panel discussion on the topic of “making PNG more productive: the business opportunities.
Later, the topic will be PNG’s next wave of gas development, with senior representatives from Exxon Mobil, Total SA, Oil Search and others.