We need one district government to be set up to replace other district governments : the beginnings of Provincial Government in Papua New Guinea Ritchie, Jonathan 2009, We need one district government to be set up to replace other district governments : the beginnings of Provincial Government in Papua New Guinea, South Pacific journal of philosophy and culture, vol. 10, 2008-2009, pp. 77-92. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title We need one district government to be set up to replace other district governments : the beginnings of Provincial Government in Papua New Guinea Author(s) Ritchie, Jonathan orcid.org/0000-0001-6105-6081 Journal name South Pacific journal of philosophy and culture Volume number 10 Season 2008-2009 Start page 77 End page 92 Total pages 16 Publisher University of Papua New Guinea Press Place of publication Port Moresby, PNG Publication date 2009-01-01 ISSN 1028-7833 Keyword(s) Pacific history social sciences philosophy cultural studies Summary Decentralisation, provincial government, and regional autonomy continue as influential factors in Papua New Guinea’s political economy.  The role played in creating PNG’s provincial government system by separatist movements in East New Britain, Bougainville and elsewhere is acknowledged.  However, as the Constitutional Planning Committee (CPC) discovered during its program of consultations with the Papua New Guinean people from 1972 to 1974, there was a strong groundswell around the country for district-level governments.  This article investigates how the CPC stimulated discussion of this issue through its own activities, and how the people in their discussion groups responded to the CPC’s ‘Discussion Paper on Relations Between the Central Government and Other Levels of Government’. Language eng Field of Research 160599 Policy and Administration not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 940203 Political Systems HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article HERDC collection year 2009 Related work DU:30025788 Copyright notice ©2009, South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30045463 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation   Link to Related Work We need one district government to be set up to replace other district governments : the beginnings of provincial government in Papua New Guinea Report (deposited 26-03-2010) Alfred Deakin Research Institute : Deakin University (ADRI) Publisher (deposited 12-04-2013) We need one district government to be set up to replace other district governments : the beginnings of Provincial Government in Papua New Guinea Journal Article (deposited 23-05-2012) University of Papua New Guinea Press Publisher (deposited 13-05-2014)   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 22 May 2012, 15:27:24 EST Tue, 22 May 2012, 15:30:07 EST Wed, 23 May 2012, 08:48:08 EST Thu, 24 May 2012, 14:11:21 EST Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:06:09 EST Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:07:19 EST Thu, 15 May 2014, 09:12:06 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 807 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 22 May 2012, 15:27:23 EST by Jonathan Ritchie