Yet another example of a country that has so much potential being ruined by incompetance because self government came too early. And if that sounds too paternalistic for some ......................
Tough!!
I left PNG over ten years ago but even then I was asked nearly every day by locals with whom I had dealings in my job as a 'bush pilot' the same question over and over,
'When taim bilong masta come back?'
I'm told that they are still asking.