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About the Author
Sean Dorney is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute. After reporting on the Pacific (with a particular focus on Papua New Guinea) for more than four decades, Sean left the ABC in August 2014. During his time with the ABC he won a Walkley for his coverage of the Aitape tsunami and was both deported and awarded an MBE by the Papua New Guinean Government. He is the author of Papua New Guinea: People, Politics and History since 1975 and The Sandline Affair: Politics and Mercenaries and the Bougainville Crisis.
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Series: Penguin Specials
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia (February 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143573950
ISBN-13: 978-0143573951
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4.5 x 0.5 x 7 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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A very enjoyable and easy read that beautifully summarizes the odd relationship between Australia and PNG. There are many parallels with the similar situations as regards Solomon Islands. A must read for anyone coming to work or play in Melanesia.
I was intrigued by the title of this recent publication by Sean Dorney, a long time journalist to Papua New Guinea (PNG). The 140 paged book, titled, The Embarrassed Colonialist was published in 2016 for the Lowy Institute of Australia by the Penguin Press. The book is small and easy reading but the 8 chapters is packed with so much insight about the Australia-PNG relationship.I was curious about the title. Who was embarrassed for what? In PNG, there is already a feeling of shame and anger at being labelled a lot of names including a failed state, a violent nation and even a hellhole. Since the author is married into a PNG tribe, was he embarrassed at the way PNG has turned out – a 40 year old wayward man-child? Or was the author just being a mouthpiece for the collective view held by Australia – PNG’s former colonial master. Or was he expressing his own embarrassment about the deteriorating state of the PNG-Australia relationship forged at colonial days.I had these questions running through my head, so when I received a copy at the Joint PNG and Lowy-Institute Bung Wantaim meeting at the Lamana Hotel, I tore into the book.It was an interesting read for me. I was born after PNG independence in 1975, and therefore had no consciousness of times and events before independence and the two decades thereafter. Therefore, this book put into perspective the Australia-PNG history.The main emotion that ran through my veins was pride but when I eventually closed the book, I was angry…. then sad …and then resolute that change for the better must take place in my lifetime.Change has been very rapid for PNG since independence. The vortex of change has sucked PNG from isolated primitive tribes into the global village already made small by virtual reality.The physical change has been enormous in the last 80 years but sadly the psyche of the Papua New Guinean individual is yet to assimilate the changes.The continuous transition from a thousand cultures to the western culture is indeed a growing pain for PNG. As rightly stated by the author, the symptoms of this transition are everywhere – corruption, poor development policies, law and order challenges and attitude problem. But PNG has made commendable progress in other fronts: economic development, the justice system, the free media, women empowerment, to name a few.Indeed, the PNG challenges started at independence. At independence it was a big ask for thousand tribes to exist as one. In retrospect, the author observes that the Australians including the Kiaps packed up and left too soon. But they left a legacy behind.They left behind their colonial policies – policies that are outdated for the 21st century, policies that favor colonial power. Translated to this day: policies that favor those in power (i.e. modern day kiaps) and outsiders. This is most obvious in the natural resource extraction policies.Given this insight, it is indeed not ignorance, but self-serving and blatant indifference to PNG, when Australian projects and even in some case AID money is given to implement projects based on such old policies.Australia also left behind a leadership vacuum. The kiaps were a government unto themselves in the villages. But when they left, they transferred everything to a committee of parliamentarians in Port Moresby. Without direction, people came up with their own definition of leadership – mixing the new and the old. This may have also contributed in the self-serving, undefinable concept of the “Melanesian Wayâ€.I disagree that PNG is Australia’s illegitimate child as asserted by the author. The inhabitants of the island of New Guinea were nations running their own affairs until colonialism unceremoniously dumped the island on Australia.At the time, the island of New Guinea was made a territory of Australia, the white Australia had declared Independence less than 5 years prior. Australia was a very young nation of united colonies when it was given the task of rearing a unruly and primitive nation of a thousand tribes.Unlovely it may have been, the island had natural resources for exploitation. Australia had forsaken the caste system of their motherland and was embracing capitalism – they needed a chicken that could lay golden eggs. Even before the World War II, Australians were prospecting for gold, timber, and oil in New Guinea. These prospectors were the ones that opened the New Guinea interior to the world.Then World War II broke out. The Japanese threatened the newly independent country, and Australia needed to win that battle away from their home front in New Guinea.As valuable as it were, PNG was reared at arms length. The evidence is in the many policies from the colonial days. Then again, in defense of Australia, PNG was their first born, and like new parents they were unsure how to bring it up.What I still don’t understand is why in this day and time, Australia is still keeping PNG at arms length when compared to how they treat other Pacific Islanders? How else can we explain the unjustified challenges faced by Papua New Guineans in issues such as visa and the fruit picking scheme and the latest project – the Colombo Plan?It is true that so many Australians love and have adopted PNG as their second country and like the author, may have married into the Melanesian culture. But the collective machinery in Australia used in dealing with PNG still seems so-old fashioned and racist and patronizing.Evidence? How else would one describe the 5 word admonishment by a representative of Australian High Commission to the author … “Stop thinking like a PNGean†(pg 76). I have read and reread but the author does not elaborate anywhere in the book, what it means to “think like a localâ€.I have come to the conclusion that if a white-skin is accused of thinking like a Melanesian, then, being a Papua New Guinean must not be color of skin or some other characteristics that differentiates Australians from Papua New Guineans. It must be a matter of perspective – a certain way of thinking.Unfortunately for white people who have been in the PNG sun too long, they start thinking different-like Papua New Guineans.So at the end, who was the embarrassed one? Sean Dorney is an Australian, with over 40 years of family ties to PNG. He may be regarded as a renegade to his birth country because he has started to think like a local. This inside knowledge however, makes his voice one of the most authentic voices to discuss PNG issues. With his leg in both societies, he has judged for himself and has spoken.The rules for re-engagement as recommended by the author are spot on. Seeing eye-to-eye is very important for the way going forward. PNG has been forced to grow up fast in the last 40 years. At 40, PNG is old enough to navigate its own waters, but put into nation building perspective – 40 years is still infancy. Indeed, PNG needs a guide, if not Australia then who else will do it?As a re-engagement recommendation, PNG also needs to take responsibility for its own growth and start behaving like an independent nation.This book even though written by an Australian, is the PNG voice speaking to Australia. It will serve Australia well to take this work seriously. I also highly recommend this book to Papua New Guinean readers. Young people, you need to learn your history and only then can you chart a better way forward for your nation.
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