Talk:Port Moresby

message: * I removed the reference to the Economist's ranking of Port Moresby as the worst place in the world to live in. This sort of bad press seems unecessary to me -- not to mention false(!), and potentially damaging -- though others may have different views about this sort of issue. -- 163.1.159.220 16:01, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: The section discussing the city before colonization is, quite frankly, a joke.  No time period is mentioned and the text gives absolutely no background on the people discussed--very uninformative.  Someone who knows more about the subject should create some significant additions. ~~
Pre-European history is mostly guess work, as there were no written languages. The "victor writes history" principle is very applicable when trying to research villagers' oral accounts recorded by early explorers. As noted by Parkinson, the truth varied from clan to clan.  The article's coverage of early colonial history is a joke too. The original capitol was at Samaria Island, but this is not mentioned. Hubert Murray (1861-1940) demarcated the city area from the surrounding villages, during the 1920s and 30s. Sometimes with military force. (The current govt. is effectively doing the same thing with encroaching "newtowns".) Murray's intention was to have colonial (Australian) law inside the city, and traditional Melanesian practices elsewhere. He was also under strict instructions not to pursue "justice" outside of the colonial areas, as some earlier Administrators had done. His post-WW2 successor, Jack Murray, ended the native restriction laws in PM. The consensus of colonial residents was that this action commenced the reign of crime in PM. PM police remained armed with 303 rifles during foot patrols, until late 1964, when full-dress uniforms were issued.` The armed foot patrols ended then.220.244.75.119 (talk) 03:52, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pre-colonization 

message: Could we have some evidence for these assertions? I love the Guardian, but on Port Moresby I do not trust it anymore than other newspapers. Having lived there I know that if one thing happens, e.g. Prince Charles going here to open Parliament, mobs of journalists go there and file reports on all kinds of horrors that are not really researched and annoy the people who live there, in some cases because they are over the top and in other cases because they minimise the problem. Bduke 11:23, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crime, unemployment etc 

message: The number given 5,959,000 (2005) from the website http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/city_guides/results.shtml?tt=TT003090 refers to the whole country, not just this one town. Otherwise it would make Port Moresby bigger than for exemple Berlin which is very unrealistic. Meursault2004 (talk) 17:05, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. aliasd·U·T 13:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population of Port Moresby 

message: It just seems to me like it is making the infobox too big, which is a reason why all the images in the article don't fit all too well. maybe put somewhere else in the article? Whatever everyone else wants I guess, just a thought.
P.S. Sorry for removing the original flag picture before, trying to quickly neaten up the images and didn't notice it was different to the one in the infobox. Anoldtreeok (talk) 12:30, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture from space needed? 

message: I'm editing out Masalai's irrelevant stuff about the Treaty of Westminster, it's ratification by the Commonwealth of Australia and it's supposed links to PNG. I'm not sure why the user has an ongoing obsession with this issue but it's not only irrelevant, it's disingenuous if not a falsehood. Colonies don't cease become colonies by passing legislation saying their not. Any reputable source will tell you Australia became effectively independent in 1901 at federation notwithstanding some legal and foreign relations matters nominally still referring back to the UK parliament. To suggest Australia wasn't an independent country from 1901-1942 is laughable and moronic. Tigerman2005 (talk) 02:39, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australia as an independent country etc 

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