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Subject: PNG independence


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Ian (Australia)
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Date Posted: 00:48:41 12/12/04 Sun
In reply to: Paddy (Scotland) 's message, "Approach to decolonisation..." on 20:58:35 12/11/04 Sat
 PNG was given independence on 16 September 1975, after Mozambique but before Angola. I rather suspect that Whitlam wanted it off his hands quickly so that he wouldn't be seen as the last of the colonial rulers.

I quite agree that helping on invitation is not neo-colonialism: the problem is that some people get very squeamish about it.
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