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Papua New Guinea's Public Services Commission since independence: Sidelined or strengthened?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates reforms to the Public Services Commission (PSC) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) since independence in 1975. It looks at the original role of the PSC and then the various reforms it has been subject to: in 1986, 2003, and 2013, by constitutional and legislative change, and in 2019, by court ruling.
Nematullah Bizhan, Stephen Howes
wiley   +1 more source

Papua New Guinea in 2015: at a crosswords and beyond [PDF]

open access: yes
The Papua New Guinea economy will record the highest GDP growth rate in the world in 2015 but will also formally fail to meet any of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals in their deadline year.
Jenny Hayward-Jones
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New species or interesting records of foliicolous lichens : 7., Calenia flava (Ostropales: Gomphillaceae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Calenia flava spec. nova from Papua New Guinea is described and illustrated. The new species is closely related to C. phyllogena but differs in the larger apothecia with yellow disc and the abundance of sterile thallus ...
Lücking, Robert   +2 more
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Wolf spiders of the Pacific region: the genus \u3ci\u3eZoica\u3c/i\u3e (Araneae, Lycosidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The wolf spider genus Zoica Simon 1898 is currently known only from the Indo-Australasian region, including India in the west to northern Western Australia and Papua New Guinea in the east.
Beatty, Joseph A.   +2 more
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Against interpretive exclusivism* Contre l'exclusivisme interprétatif

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Interpretive exclusivism is the dogma that we can only understand cultural systems by interpreting them, thereby ruling out causal explanations of cultural phenomena using scientific methods, for example based on measurement, comparison, and experiment.
Harvey Whitehouse
wiley   +1 more source

Diary of Dr Blanche Biggs, 1959 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1959
The Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Collection consists of photographs, typescript articles, correspondence, diaries, notes and ephemera documenting personal experiences of colonial administration and general life in Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea Association of Australia
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Non-tuberculous mycobacteria: baseline data from three sites in Papua New Guinea, 2010–2012

open access: yesWestern Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2015
Objective: To determine the proportion of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in samples of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) cases from Papua New Guinea who were diagnosed using acid-fast microscopy.
Serej Ley   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The value of transformation: Agricultural labour and shifting bodies in the Bolivian highlands La valeur de la transformation : main‐d’œuvre agricole et corps changeants dans les hautes terres de Bolivie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores transformation as a way of being in the rural Andes. It traces how transformation connects, and produces value within, multiple different spheres of life, specifically agricultural labour, personhood, identity, and space and movement.
Miranda Sheild Johansson
wiley   +1 more source

Leviathans at the Gold Mine: Creating Indigenous and Corporate Actors in Papua New Guinea

open access: yes, 2014
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Yakatabari Negotiations 2. The Birth of Leviathans 3. Being Ipili in Porgera 4.
Alexander N. Golub
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Diary of Dr Blanche Biggs, 1948 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1948
The Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Collection consists of photographs, typescript articles, correspondence, diaries, notes and ephemera documenting personal experiences of colonial administration and general life in Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea Association of Australia
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