CANBERRA, ACT, Sept. 17 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:
JAMES MARAPE, PRIME MINISTER OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Alright, thank you very much. And to Papua New Guinea, happy 50th anniversary. Yesterday was reflection, yesterday was our commemoration of our 50th anniversary of democracy, a free market economy, freedom of religion, freedom of worship and existing as an independent state. And we are pleased, I am pleased on behalf of every son and daughter of our country to acknowledge that on my right hand is the Prime Minister of Australia, the present Labor leader of the Australian Labor Party, under whose words we have in this press conference today. It was this moment 50 years ago where great grand chief, ...