Masalai i Tokaut

essential reading

development politics corruption money - they are all live and kicking issues here. i admit at first the level of it i found shocking; but now fascinated, and angry, and reading and talking and learning about it. these issues are minefields, and there are so many implicated, from those of the cloth to the govt to tribes to asian triads (ok that one is definately rumour only) to landowners (of course) and to the aussie mining companies...and there aren't nice or easy answers. i've been lucky enough to be able to edit some current work into this stuff - one on a major tuna cannery in png (sex given for tuna; dead bodies in freezer, alongside tuna - not kidding) and another on a nickel mine that's just been given the go ahead, despite the required environmental damage reports coming up red alert. it's fascinating and depressing and bloody important.