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Thank you for this timely piece, Andrew. This is probably the worst riots since Sandline. The issue of rural-urban drift and income generation have been part of PNG's development discourse for decades, yet successive governments have failed to address these issues. I agree with your suggestion on police reform-in fact the whole law and justice sector needs to be able to be one that is responsive in terms of holding perpetrators to account but also providing adequate rehabilitation for long term behavior change.

It was quite emotional and heartfelt when scrolling down paragraph by paragraph reading through the entire blog. A true story from our humble beginings, our inocent days as am onenof his close childhood friends and also his cousin where every stories he told, I was there too besides him.

The concern is high inflation and taxation. Are our National security forces on strike for their own belly or does it includes others on the entire scale? Hope what the successive gov't or the existing one does is address this issue to the satisfaction of everyone and not just the police, defense and the correctional services. Besides reshuffling cabinet could hopefully improve anything. What's so wrong in addressing the problem directly than cutting around corners to get to the real cause? Again is technical glitch an excuse or a reality? Unless newly introduced, 'technical glitch' excuse is not acceptable, but if it was used for sometimes, then why is it happening and why wasn't it reported before the strike happened. This uncovers gov't deliberate attempt and yet tried to hide something. Just reduce the inflation, and tax is what the country needs right now that is the overall cause of this event bursting out pin the gov't on the wall with all its mistakes.

Thank you, good overview. I understand an additional cost, often not mentioned, was the sexual assault of a number of women

Thank you Very Much Kate.

Mr. Mako your article clearly describes the events that happened on 10th January 2024, very insightful. Thank you for sharing it.

Excellent and very useful research, Minetta. I hope you will continue to work in this area in the years to come!

Should be pretty soon. Watch out for an announcement on country quotas which is the key next step.

Thank you very much David Tierney for your comment.

Hi Mr Esop Thank you for your comment. Yes, I do agree with you on that. Since this study was done to fulfill a requirement of the Bachelor of Arts with Honours Degree Program at UPNG, there was a word count for the sub-thesis submission. Hence I only managed to analyse 152 IPV cases maintained by the FSVUs in POM out of 2000+ cases. I am also planning on conducting future research around what you have suggested with my colleagues at the university. Thanks again.

Hi Kingtau, thanks for sharing these links. Data reveals a very sad reality for PNG. However it's good to see that currently there is a nationwide conversation around this issue on the possible ways to address it. Similarly it's very encouraging to see that our government is also involved in trying to address this issue. With the recent establishment of a new Permanent Committee of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment by the parliament, we should see some form of improvement in PNG in the near future.

This is a great baseline study highlighting one of the impediments of PNG's development. Perhaps more in-depth studies including longitudinal research with larger sample size involving both partners and the wider community is required to further understand the potential linkages between the antecedents, mediating/moderating variables and consequences of IPV. Well done Minetta!