This number includes 11 extensively drug resistant TB cases. Mr Malabag said drug resistant TB is a particularly dangerous form of the disease. It costs K8, to treat a drug-resistant TB patient. This goes up to K38, a patient for extensively drug-resistant TB. He said a course of treatment for drug resistant TB is around K8, per patient but this rises up to K38, per patient for extensively drug resistant TB. Tony Abbott has survived the snap leadership vote this week within his coalition government.
Importantly, his survival re-emphasizes, among many pressing domestic issues, that Australia is our neighbour and a great friend; our ties do back a long way and has remained very strong, something we can and will continue to build on. Don Polye and company simply do not have the numbers to be a serious threat to the PNC leadership. This was made clear on the floor of Parliament this week at the first session of the year. The implementation of his key policies β enough to keep the rest of the rank and rank loyal to his coalition β includes free education and health care, rebuilding infrastructure, modernising police and defence forces and investing in oil, gas and minerals projects to secure economic and financial future.
These have been welcomed far and wide. Following a flat refusal from foreign minister Julie Bishop earlier PNG announced that it was lifting its policy from March 1, last year, and Australians must have a visa before entering PNG β until Canberra bows down to our wish! Maybe it is timely to reopen talks on the issue which we have no firm ground to stand on.
We hope Tony Abbott can go one step further in the not-toodistant future and offer the visa-on-arrival policy to reciprocate the PNG arrangement. Whatever the outcome on this thorny issue, one thing is for sure β at the end of the day Papua New Guinea welcomes Tony Abbott back as leader although battered and bruised from the licking his party suffered in the Queensland state election. Turf Guide He also commended Mr Pitpit for his outstanding job in leading the team. Justice and Attorney General Department Secretary Lawrence Kalinoe welcomed Mr Tamate to the office, saying that they have every confidence that he would discharge his duties well.
He thanked Mr Pitpit for his services, and in growing the Public Solicitors office from being a branch of the Attorney General office to an entity of its own boasting staff.
