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Date Posted: 23:39:24 01/11/00 Tue
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Will PNG's foundingfather be cast aside in death as Mamaloni incurred &deserves?

POST COURIER 12JANUARY2000

Off-on Solomons PM Mamaloni dies
FORMER Solomon Islands prime minister Solomon Mamaloni, one of the Pacific's most controversial leaders often accused of corruption, died in the Solomons capital of Honiara yesterday.
Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa'alu confirmed the news to AFP.
Believed to have been aged around 56, Mamaloni had been admitted to hospital with what was described as a kidney ailment. He died there yesterday afternoon.
At the time of death he was Leader of the Opposition.
Although his death had still not been officially announced, people were gathering around his body in the evening as it lay-in-state at his family home.
He is expected to be buried later in the week at his family home in the village of Macedonia on Makira Island.
A secret Australian government report on Pacific leaders, made public accidentally in 1997, described Mamaloni as "wily".
"Prime Minister Mamaloni will remain an obstacle to responsible government for as long as he is in power," it said. "Even in opposition he will pose a threat which will make ministers wary of change. He bought support, with help from Malaysian logging interests, to topple the short-lived reformist (Francis Billy) Hilly Government in 1994.
"Mamaloni's corrupt dealings with loggers and others enable him to continue to dominate Solomon Islands politics. He deflects blame for the government's financial straits by sacking ministers; the minister of finance has been replaced twice since September 1996."
Mamaloni was given his secondary education in New Zealand, crucially boarding with a well known political family there whose members were leaders of the now defunct social credit movement and Mamaloni's often idiosyncratic economics later were often attributed to that influence.
Under British colonial rule Mamaloni, then a civil servant, became the first ever chief minister of the Solomons, taking up the post in 1975. He failed to make it as prime minister at Independence in 1978 but was always a key political figure.
He entered parliament in 1972 and served four terms as prime minister between 1983 and 1997.
He feared travel and never attended regional meetings unless they were held in his home town.
In 1995 he attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit in Auckland when it suspended Nigeria after it hanged political dissidents. In the communique it was noted only Gambia and the Solomons voted not to suspend Nigeria.
A secretariat spokesman later said Mamaloni had seldom attended any of the sessions and did not seem to know what was happening, but later a Mamaloni official said the prime minister had not heard properly what was being discussed.
Mamaloni was often accused of being corrupt, particularly from Malaysian loggers who were given generous concessions to clearfell the tropical forest here.
The government has made no announcement of a state funeral or day of mourning.

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