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Article: Demonstrators want Australia to apologise over treatment of PM.
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- PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association
- Article date:
- April 19, 2005
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19 APRIL 2005 LAE (Pacnews) ---- At least 7,000 people demonstrated in Lae on Friday (15 April) and presented a petition calling for Australia to apologise to Papua New Guinea (PNG) for the treatment Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare was subjected to at Brisbane Airport last month.
They marched to Eriku and presented the petition to Governor Luther Wenge, who received it because Australian Consul Phil Franklin refused to receive it, The National reports.
The petition also demanded that Lae rid itself of Australians and their products if their government did not apologise to Sir Michael.
The petition said the failure to apologise was an act of ...