PNG National Research Institute (PNGNRI)

Highlighting that state fragility is a situation where the state suffers from deficiencies in capacity, legitimacy or authority, which can also be associated with a weak economy and low resilience to shocks.

As State fragility can relate to the whole country, it is a combination of many issues from the identity of the State, internal and external security issues, state of the economy, and exercise of state powers and functions and authority, which can affect one or all.

Authored by Michael Kabuni, a PhD Candidate from the Australian National University, Kabuni highlights the issues, and argues for the need to start a national conversation on the dual roles of Members of Parliament.

The paper was initially presented in February 2022 during the National Conference facilitated by the Autonomy and Decentralization Research Institute led by Dr Thomas Webster. 

The National Airport Corporation (NAC) is responsible for the provision, maintenance and development of 22 designated national airports. Over the years, the emphasis in managing these airports has been on an investment program to ensure the airports are developed to meet internationally acceptable safety and security standards. However, this has come at a cost of limited attention to operational efficiency and efficient pricing of airport services. 

This promotes a person’s constitutional right to be freely expressed in voting in a national election without external influences.

However, irregularities have become common practices in the Papua New Guinea (PNG) National Elections.

The PNG National Research Institute’s recent publication of ‘The Spotlight: Establishment of an entity to administer customary land in PNG should be considered Volume 14, Issue 19’ by Research Fellow, Logea Nao.

He presents the case for the government to consider establishing an entity specifically for the administration of customary land.