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'Too good to be true': the deal with an Isis-linked Australian family that betrayed PNG's most marginalised

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A sustainable forestry project established to develop some of PNG’s most marginalised communities has become mired in an international corruption scandal “There is always the stench of corruption around a deal that is too bad to be true or too good to be true,” a full-page advertisement in Papua New Guinea’s Post Courier baldly declared in May 2018.“Usually, because it’s not true.” Continue reading...

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