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What's her future?
By
Jo Chandler
The Age
February 02, 2012
POINT the camera, pick a frame, and observers can soon find scenes to illustrate any one of the wildly juxtaposed narratives playing out on the streets of Port Moresby this past week.
Powder-keg, perilous Papua New Guinea: Cue pictures of roadblocks and convoys of riot squads. Tense-jawed soldiers and troop carriers bristling with weaponry. City offices emptying and business grinding to a halt as white-collar workers respond to security alerts urging citizens off the streets, the well-shod retreating behind the razor wire of their home compounds.
Such images inspire grim reflections from market analysts on the repercussions for the resources boom on which the fragile nation's future is staked.
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