Papua New Guinea

He's 24 years old now, so he'll be 26 when he gets up there, and I like this signing.

I think he's Papua New Guinean.

He's played for the Cornwalls.

Well, yeah, he's playing for the Cornwalls already, but he...

He has one of the more interesting stories of people that I know.

Three thirds of your life, boarding school slash Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea accounting.

I'm actually four stages accounting, Papua New Guinea radius.

Are those kind of the four big chunks?

I mean, they wouldn't be the same size, but they would be roughly the four stages.

We did.

I mean, it took us about a year to go from accounting world to, hey, let's do this, or let's start heading in this direction and believe that the Lord will close the doors if he doesn't want us going.

And you decided on Papua New Guinea because that's what you knew from your parents.

Next, we will cover the sentencing and imprisonment of Joshua Wong and how this represents yet another event in the long road of the fall of Hong Kong's democracy to the Chinese Communist Party.

Lastly, we will be discussing a rather more unusual event, that being the discovery of a Chinese artillery shell in a shipping container in Papua New Guinea and how this fits into the larger pattern of the proliferation of Beijing's global arms trade.

Miles, good morning.

How are you doing?

Without freedom, there was no capitalism.

Our last topic today is something a little more, shall we say, curious or strange.

Port inspectors in Papua New Guinea found a 105-millimeter artillery shell inside a shipping container from China, which the Chinese embassy quickly dismissed as nothing more than a shell-shaped wine bottle.

That may be except for the fact that it was filled with explosives and weighed 32 kilograms.

Five years ago, Harmony was predominantly a South African gold producer.

Today, we are a higher quality gold and copper producer operating in South Africa, Papua New Guinea and Australia, with a clear growth trajectory, Harmony CEO Baez Nel pointed out in a release to Mining Weekly.

margins at our gold operations remain robust csa is now an established part of the group contributing copper revenue alongside our gold added buyers while pointing out that the moab kotzong gold mine near the orkney and clarksdorp and straddling the northwest and free state provinces is moving through its planned gold ore gap while the eva copper project in australia remains has passed another approval milestone on its path to production Production at Chepong North Gold Mine increased by 23% to 1,020 kilograms driven by higher tons milled and higher grades.

Harmony has attributable gold mineral reserves of 27.4 million ounces and copper mineral reserves of 4 million tons.

In Australasia, the Stage 9 life of mine extension at Hidden Valley is progressing through feasibility study and early works phases, with the potential to extend mine life by six years.

At CSA Copper, the capital ventilation project continues to advance, with progress made on access development and the project delivery approach refined to support efficient execution.

At Wafi Golpu, discussions between Harmony, Newmont and the Papua New Guinea government to secure the special mining lease are continuing.

Exploration.

So, yeah, we did our training together.

We kind of imagined ourselves probably going to Papua New Guinea or a place like that.

But then we sort of started realizing, okay, my disability is going to be a factor.

We were probably not taking that into account enough.

I do welcome as well what you've said, though, that we should be encouraging a broadening and a more generous memory.

A small version of this, in Australia, where I'm from, back in the 1990s, the country started doing much more to acknowledge the vital role, very specifically the Papua New Guinean scouts and allies played in the Kokoda Trail.

And there's a very moving photo of an Australian soldier blindfolded, being supported by the by his allies.

And for years and years and years, the emphasis upon that photo was of the man with the blindfold.

But Prime Minister Paul Keating went to Papua New Guinea and sought out and found the Papua New Guinean who was holding him and simply said in front of the cameras, thank you for helping this man.

So I think we can have a humane version of a national memory, but we can also kind of reach out, I think, a little more.

And I think that's a good thing.

And I...

I grew up with a mum who is from Papua New Guinea.

I was born in Papua New Guinea and I grew up here in Australia.

My dad's Australian.

And my mum has a beautiful Afro, tight, coily, Melanesian Afro.

heritage there, their kids or like the next generation, if this change hadn't been made, wouldn't be able to represent Samoa because it's too far gone or whatever.

And so, but basically the issue- Well, I guess the tougher task than this would be to fund development pathways, junior clubs in Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, instead of just let's just keep every generation, let's just keep going back to heritage and...

And then all the players are based in Australia, born in Australia, but playing for the heritage, which is great, but how long can we keep doing that?

And we need to see the growth in those nations as in particular, and that's going to be sustainable.

Absolutely.

In looking it up, I found something about something called Kuru disease, K-U-R-U, which is a prion disease that showed up among the four people of Papua New Guinea, who up until about the 1960s, late 1950s, still had a practice of funerary cannibalism.

which was about carrying people into the future.

And I'm not gonna pretend to understand the religion, but it was a form of ancestor veneration.