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Today we want to talk about another area of change
A needed change, and that's the role of women's...
...participation within Papua New Guinea society.
There are, across the developing world, about 18 percent of women...
...in the parliaments of the developing world.
The figure within the Pacific is much less.
It's about 5 percent.
And in PNG, prior to this year's election, only four women had served...
...in the national parliament.
And we're going to hear from one of them a bit later.
There are, evidently, significant barriers to women participating in politics.
And we need to do what we can to support women's empowerment...
...in that process.
And it is important to do that because women bring...
...different perspectives to the political process.
We see that within our own country.
But it seems to me that where you find a country...
...with empowered women, is where you find a country...
...which is developing fast.
And that's why it is so important that we see...
...the empowerment of women throughout the Pacific....
...and PNG, and why we want to play our role in supporting the Pacific...
...and PNG in moving down that path.
And we've done that through our own Prime Minister's announcement...
...of the gender initiative, during the Pacific Island forum...
...earlier this year.
At this election, in Papua New Guinea, we saw the election...
...for the first time, of three women in the parliament.
Which is a great moment in the history of PNG.
Louijaya Toni, who is now the Minister for Community Development in PNG...
...the successor to Dame Carol.
I had the pleasure of seeing Louijaya again, when I was in PNG...
...a couple of weeks ago.
Julie Soso, who is the Governor of the Eastern Highlands province...
...and Delilah Gore.
Their election is a critical moment in the future of Papua New Guinea.
But I want to end on this point:
Their election is because of our guest tonight, or this afternoon.
Their election is because of the inspiration that has been given...
...to those women, and indeed women throughout PNG and the Pacific...
...by Dame Carol Kidu, who for many years, carried the flame alone...
...in terms of women's empowerment within PNG...
...and, indeed, within the Pacific.
She is a hero.
She is one of Australia's greatest exports.
And we are so delighted to have her here today...
...as our orator.
I won't go on, because Senator Anne McEwan...
...is going to do the formal introduction.
But please, enjoy the main course, and after it...
...we will be returning with our 2012 PNG Independence Day orator.
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Dame Carol was born in Brisbane, and when she was sixteen...
...she fell in love at a school camp on the Gold Coast...
...with a young Papua New Guinean man, who was on a scholarship...
...at Toowoomba Grammar School.
And that young man's name was Buri Kidu.
The went to study together at the University of Queensland...
...and they married and moved to Papua New Guinea.
Buri became Chief Justice in 1980, but sadly is no longer with us.
Following his passing, Dame Carol committed to PNG...
...and formed the Sir Buri Heart Institute.
After much deliberation, she successfully contested...
...the 1997 general election, winning the seat of Port Moresby South.
And she was re-elected in 2002 and 2007.
From 2002, until her retirement this year, Dame Kidu...
...was the only woman in PNG's parliament.
And aren't we glad to hear that there's been more women...
...elected to the PNG parliament in the most recent elections.
Dame Kidu was appointed Minister for Community Development...
...in 2002, and held that position until the dramatic events...
...of August 2011.
And, as Minister, she was at the forefront of the fight...
...against domestic violence and *** AIDS.
In 2012, in the midst of a turbulent period in PNG politics...
...Dame Kidu emerged as PNG's only opposition Member...
...making her the first female opposition leader in Papua New Guinea.
And we will remember those pictures of Dame Carol...
...sitting by herself on the opposition benches!
[Audience laughs]
In 2012, after a long and immensely productive career in politics...
...Dame Kidu retired, but as we've heard from discussions with her today...
...she's hardly in retirement, and still has much work to do.
Dame Kidu has been recognised with the highest honours for her service.
In 2005 she was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
...for services to community and politics.
In 2007 she received the US Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award.
In 2009 she was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour by France...
...for her dedication to helping women, young girls, children...
...the physically and mentally impaired and for her commitment...
...to fighting discrimination.
She was the first citizen of Papua New Guinea...
...ever to receive that important award.
She has also received three honorary doctorates...
...two from Papua New Guinea Universities...
...and one from the University of Queensland.
What an extraordinary life, and achievement.
It's my great honour to introduce to you: Dame Carol Kidu.
[Audience applauds]
Thank you, Senator.
Um, we obviously have something in common...
...both of you fell in love with Papua New Guinea...
...I fell in love with a man at first sight.
[Audience laughs]
And it's changed my life forever.
And I'm thinking about those things you observed in 2000 and...
...when you were there, what was it? 2006?
And I'm trying to think, how many of them are still sustainable...
...a couple of them are, but many are not.
And perhaps it's going to be part of what I'm going to talk about today.
This great challenge of sustainable development at community level...
...in Papua New Guinea.
I'm going to touch onto that as well.
As is the tradition, since the historic apology to indigenous Australians...
...by the Honorable Kevin Rudd, I acknowledge the traditional elders...
...past and present of the land that we are gathered on.
I also acknowledge my extended family of the Vahoi clan of Pari village...
...and the people of Moresby South electorate...
...in Papua New Guinea.
It is because of their support in three elections...
...that I am privileged to be here today.
I owe them great gratitude and support.
Honorable Richard Marles, Parliamentary Secretary...
...for Pacific Island Affairs, Members of Parliament, Senators...
...members of the diplomatic corps, ladies and gentlemen...
...or may I simply say, friends, because I see many...
...familiar faces today and soon I will start to relax...
...and that knot in my stomach will disappear, I hope.
I am very honoured to deliver the second PNG Independence...
...oration following former Prime Minister, Sir Rabbie Namaliu's...
...inaugural oration last year.
And I thoroughly endorse his commendation to...
...the Honorable Richard Marles for initiating this occasion...
...as an annual event, to continue to cement the relationships...
...between our two countries.
The invitation letter asked me to speak about women in politics...
...in Papua New Guinea.
My initial reaction was: "Oh, no. Not again!"
[Audience laughs]
So I will take the liberty to comment on other social development issues...
...as well, and I've called my oration "Women in Politics..."
"...in Papua New Guinea - plus" with a big plus on it.
So I hope you'll accept that!
It is certainly important to celebrate the fact that we now...
...have three women in parliament in Papua New Guinea.
A Minister, a Vice-Minister and a Governor...
...representing three different regions of the country...
...the northern, the southern and the Highlands.
So that in itself is another coup.
We are hoping it marks the beginning of an attitudinal change...
...which will be sustained and increased in future elections.
But we're also mindful of the fact that several of our Pacific neighbours...
...actually lost female numbers in recent elections.
And we do not want that to happen in Papua New Guinea.
PNG has a long way to go before we reach...
...the Commonwealth minimum standard of one third female participation...
...in parliament.
And that in itself is below the 50 percent benchmark...
...being achieved in Pacific French territories...
...under the French political parity laws passed in 2000, which took effect...
...in 2008.
I know that one woman in a parliament of 109, 0.9 percent...
...not even one percent! It was not enough.
And three women in parliament in Papua New Guinea...
...although a brilliant achievement by those three women...
...is still far from enough.
And the push to implement national government gender policy...
...on equality and participation must continue in some form...
...or another.
But it's not about quality alone, we now have three...
...Papua New Guinean women of substance in parliament.
And post-independence we had two pioneer female politicians...
...one being a Minister, Dame Josephine and Nahau Rooney.
But politics, as you all know sitting here, is about quantity...
...as well as quality.
It comes down to numbers when it comes to some critical issues.
And that critical mass is needed for women to influence...
...the political culture of Papua New Guinea.
So, a battle has been won, but the war is still not over.
But it's not a war.
It's a friendly dialogue to improve the numbers.
I thank the Australian government through AusAid support...
...and the UN agencies for the technical...
...and financial support given to the Women's Political Lobby...
...over the last 5 years.
And in particular, I thank the Gender Reference Group.
Papua New Guinean women and men who committed to the preparation...
...of the Equality and Participation Bill, as well as...
...the policy framework, of which the constitutional amendment...
...was successfully passed.
So we have that basic amendment in our constitution.
Although the Enabling Organic Bill was defeated...
...which I knew would happen, because I knew the feelings...
...about that particular piece of legislation...
...I am sure that the continuous public debate for 5 years...
...contributed to changing the attitude that seems to be emerging now...
...in Papua New Guinea.
And so we must keep moving forward.
It is good that the Lobby for Affirmative Action...
...is continuing and the Election Diagnostic 2012...
...conducted by UN Women with AusAid financial support...
...is well underway.
Its findings, which are in draft form, will help define the way ahead.
One thing that is clear from the diagnostic so far...
...is that women who want to stand in 2017, should start...
...their preparations now.
Many started too late.
The concept of reserve seats has been rejected...
...by the new female MPs.
And I must say that before I was in politics...
...and when I was first there, I didn't really fancy...
...the concept of reserve seats either.
So the way forward needs to include increased focus...
...on political party commitment.
As well as on developing political skills for women at local, ward...
...and provincial levels to dramatically increase...
...political participation of women at those levels
as a foundation for entry into national politics.
Perhaps affirmative party action alone will not be enough...
...to make the critical mass change that we need in Papua New Guinea.
So we going to have to be creative in trying to define...
...an organic law that will be acceptable to the majority...
...in parliament.
The sad thing, and I have to say this, in all of this, is...
...that although both governments, that of Sir Michael Somare...
...and that of Peter O'Neill in the last parliament...
...made bold statements about equality and participation...
...being core policies.
Neither committed any budget to pursue the policy objectives.
Thus it was necessary for me to turn to development partners..
...for funding of a variety of programmes, as well as...
...attempts at legislative reform.
Noble policy statements without budgets are toothless tigers.
And when one seeks funding elsewhere, to give some teeth to the tiger...
...accusations of foreign agendas often emerge.
So it is something that we really must address.
The fact that we have to commit budgetwise...
...as well as noble statements in policies.
The continuing lack of in-country funding remains a threat...
...to other social programmes.
As well as those for political participation of women.
One such area of programming is in the area of maternal...
...and *** and reproductive health rights.
PNG has not tracked well on the MDGs...
...and our maternal mortality rate actually increased...
...as you well know, between 1996 and 2006 demographic health surveys.
On average five women die every day in Papua New Guinea...
...from pregnancy-related health complications.
This fact galvanised efforts to produce a ministerial report...
...on maternal health, during the eighth term of parliament.
While the department has beset itself with restructuring...
...to establish national and provincial command posts...
...to improve service delivery and data collection...
...our development partners have fully funded some aspects...
...of the response.
The Midwifery Project to address the critical shortage of midwives...
...and the ageing workforce in that area...
...is fully funded by AusAid and there's a team of eight...
...midwifery teachers and two obstetricians.
I've been privileged to meet them on several occasions...
...when they're in-country, working.
It is coming up to one year of a two-year initial funding phase.
And it's shown notable improvements in the quality of teaching...
...and the profile of new graduates.
Scholarships PNG, and again that's an AusAid funded project...
...has enabled increased numbers of funded placements...
...with 80 this year, and 130 next year...
...in midwives.
There are now 4 midwifery schools fully functional.
And as family planning is the most effective way to reduce...
...maternal mortality, it is essential that it has high support...
...visibility and advocacy within the project.
I quote from Professor Pat Brodie, the Midwifery Advisor...
...and mentor to the team: 'Initiatives like ours are good..."
"...are a good start. But will only be effective within..."
"...a functioning health system and a whole-of-government approach..."
"...starting with community preparedness."
Professor Brodie and I have often discussed the preparation...
...of community preparedness materials for safe motherhood.
Plus a couple of other people in this room.
One of many things I hope to be involved in...
...in life after politics.
Community preparedness, community engagement, community empowerment...
...community mobilisation. It can be called many things.
Community is fundamental, but a neglected foundation stone...
...to sustainable development in Papua New Guinea...
...and in many countries.
We are all aware of the critical capacity problems...
...with service delivery in Papua New Guinea.
It is something the present government, and the former...
...government are continuously working on, because...
...it's recognised as a major issue.
The public service machinery, while struggling to respond...
...to the needs of the increased population, has been further...
...weakened for over a decade by brain drain, often to places...
...like Oz, eh!
Inadequate budgets, and by politicisation and parallel projects...
...funded under the DSIP's grants to Members of Parliament.
The potential power of the resilience of communities to partner...
...with a public service has been largely untapped...
...by successive governments.
Umm...
And a new integrated community development policy...
...is struggling to partner effectively with the churches and NGOs.
And I'm really pleased that Minister Loujaya Toni has said she will continue....
...to pursue these integrated community development policies.
There is great opportunity for programmes like...
...the Church Partnership Programme to work with this integrated...
...community development policy to maximise potential impact...
...of community-based projects.
And at the same time, strengthen government capacity...
...to facilitate development processes in the community.
Because government must be seen at community level.
Otherwise it weakens government.
I often feel that PNG has taken off at an incredible speed.
But we have failed to pick up the majority of the passengers.
We are really moving.
We're such a blessed country...
...with so many resources and so many major impact projects...
...being signed off.
I sometimes wonder whether we've left some of the passengers behind.
And they've remained on the ground struggling, with a complex interface...
...between tradition and modernity.
Often marginalised from the main flight path...
...for a variety of reasons that are not the fault...
...of government, necessarily.
So I'm not being critical here on government.
Should we just see this as the price of progress?
Or should we devise programmes to facilitate analytical reflection...
...to help citizens define their pathways to more prosperous futures?
Is it just fanciful thinking that that is possible...
...in a nation of such diversity?
I believe that it has to be part of the way forward...
...if we, as communities, and a nation are going to truly take ownership...
...of the future.
Let me illustrate further, by drawing on the white ribbon campaign...
...issues of violence against women.
And I was pleased to attend the activities in parliament...
...here, yesterday.
The violence being experienced by women in Papua New Guinea...
...is well documented and completely unacceptable.
But is it traditional?
Certainly children growing up today possibly see it as a norm...
...of Papua New Guinea.
And that is a very dangerous self-perpetuating cycle...
...that has now been established.
But in the society I married into, such physical violence...
...in the family was not traditional and not acceptable.
Perhaps more common was psychological violence...
...and disempowering language that devalues women...
...and discourages women from aspiring to leadership.
And this also is an issue that must be addressed.
For example:
[Speaks Tok Pisin]
Said to my daughter a year after her father died....
...by some of the elders, when she tried...
...to speak at the funeral's one year anniversary.
She went outside and sat down and wept.
She said: 'Mum, Dad would never have said that.'
'Don't speak, you are only a woman you have no right.'
But it was said to her by some of the elders.
This type of thing that disempowers young girls...
We must address these things as well, because if you hear that...
...as a child, you will believe it.
Lateral violence is also a powerful negative force in communities.
And particularly amongst women.
And again, can discourage women's aspirations for their future...
...and is a constraint to sustainable development.
But I believe that lateral violence which is quite common...
...in communal, co-dependent societies it needs to be looked at...
...and addressed, in our total approach to the violence we're seeing...
...in Papua New Guinea today.
Of course physical violence requires urgent and immediate action.
But other forms of violence also require analysis...
...because they contribute to the underlying causes of violence.
Discouraging language that incites violence, also needs...
...to be factored into many response programmes.
Often this language comes from women and was used traditionally...
...to incite the men into warfare.
[Speaks Tok Pisin again]
'Is your axe ashamed?'
If your axe is taken up it must draw blood.
Is it ashamed..?
And these things are said, language incites violence...
...that incited the position to tribal fighting.
We must start trying to get these things out of the language...
...of the culture, of the country, to move forward...
...in discouraging violence.
Programmes to address violence against women...
...need to explore multiple responses to fill the vacuum created...
...by the loss of cultural protective customs...
There was a wonderful one that I saw in my early years there...
...where a girl was physically protected by the mothers-in-law.
Literally, they got up as her protectors...
...and protected her.
I've never seen that since.
And the inadequacies of legal and institutional responses...
...to violence, we need to dig further we need to unpack the whole issue...
...very thoroughly.
Related to violence is the high levels of stress in families and communities.
We don't talk about stress much in Papua New Guinea...
...because there are so many other issues.
We talk about it a lot in Australia.
Um..
Health issues of emotional and social wellbeing...
...have very little focus in our health system.
Under 1 percent of the health budget goes towards the issue...
...of the mental wellbeing of our people.
There are too many other issues demanding attention.
Maternal, infant mortality, *** epidemic...
...the emergence of multiple drug-resistant strains of TB...
...the rapid increase in lifestyle-related NCDs.
They're all stretching the institutional capacity...
...to respond.
And it's gone beyond the limit.
However, when the North Queensland mental health specialist...
...decided to hold their Creating Futures 2012 conference...
...in Port Moresby, with Professor Hunter and in combination...
...with our mental health people, this neglected area of health...
...gained quite a boost.
It was wonderful seeing these empowered mental health workers...
...throughout the country there, feeling such a boost.
Stress and anger-management need attention...
...as do substance abuse and addictive behaviour.
The church health system is perhaps the best starting point...
...to expand these health issues.
Some interesting modelling is already well advanced in Manus Island...
...where Dr Quentin Riley, former Health Secretary...
...has established a mindfulness meditation retreat...
...in his wife's village, as he moves between his work in mental health...
...in Cairns and in Manus.
The positive impact on academic results for school students...
...in the area is now being monitored and documented.
Dr Riley and I are presently looking at ways to introduce this work...
...to the fractured Port Moresby society.
And to the high-stress environment of our senior bureaucrats etc.
Just two days ago I was with our acting Chief Ombudsman...
...Phoebe, a wonderful woman, discussing this...
...and she was very affirmative that we should try to move forward.
Too many of our young people are dying from heart attacks...
...in their late forties.
I would like to also just explore a bit - do I have time?
The issue of poverty and culture a little bit.
Most writings on poverty, and I've read...
...Professor Sachs' book on the end of poverty...
...they examine the socio-economic issues but fail...
...to recognise the cultural influences on poverty and inequity.
Perhaps culturally it is almost impossible to achieve...
...the national goal of equitable development in Papua New Guinea.
There is definitely ethnic tension in Papua New Guinea...
...around the issue of resource development...
...and sometimes resentment by coastal people...
...against some highland groups who are more aggressive, culturally.
And this is not about right or wrong, good or bad, it's just different.
As a member of an urban electorate for fifteen years...
...a melting pot of tribes, learning to become one people...
...one nation in the capital city, I watched these resentments simmer...
...until often a small incident would bring them to a boiling point...
...and an explosion with violent clashes, deaths, injuries...
...and property destruction, followed by compensation gatherings...
...and then back to a simmering, in a cyclic pattern.
We are aiming to be one people, one nation...
...and there are fundamental commonalities and differences...
...that can either unite or divide us.
And we need to understand these as a people.
One difference is attitudes to work ethic.
My observation - and I don't know the highland cultures well...
...is that highland cultures are based on competitive...
...and continuous productivity to create big men in the tribe.
Papuan tribes, where leadership was inherited through chiefdomships...
...continuous competitive productivity was not the norm.
In fact, it was avoided.
And so there's really an imbalance there...
...neither one right or wrong.
Papuans, often stereotyped as lazy, work very hard..
...they can be very hardworking, to fulfil communal cultural obligations...
such as funeral and bride price and church obligations.
But between these obligations, the fear of jealousy...
...sorcery and even death often discourages them...
...from standing out from the communal norm.
And trying to advance as entrepreneurs.
Just three weeks ago, we buried a brother-in-law, just 49 years.
Medically he was type II diabetic, who suffered a silent heart attack.
But culturally, it is believed the underlying cause...
...was sorcery because of jealousy, no matter what.
The highland cultures, based on entrepreneurship...
...adapted very quickly to Western capitalism.
Whereas some other tribes have been trapped...
...in a cultural timewarp that exacerbates poverty.
Being married into a non-entrepreneurial culture...
...I keep challenging myself with the question...
...How can we design business development models...
...that adapt to the different cultures to create at least a minimal...
...situation of sufficiency rather than increasing poverty?
It's something that I want to struggle with now I'm out of that madhouse...
...called 'politics'.
[Audience laughs]
Because there must be ways we can develop...
...business models that can draw on the different cultural aspects.
The increasing 'Me Culture' of individualism...
...and teaching little children to sing...
#It is my right to have a healthy mother...#
And I say 'What a beautiful song', then I go to the teacher and I say...
Can't you teach them to sing 'It is our right to have healthy mothers...'
'...It is our right to have an education' ?
Just this little thing changes the psychology...
...from a communal co-dependent society, to a very individualistic...
...society.
'My right, but what about that kid over there in the gutter?'
We've got to be very careful how we move forward.
Accepting all of these things that we're taking on.
These individual and communal rights to resources, such as land...
...also challenges me to think about the processes and impacts...
...of change.
How can we decrease the feminisation of poverty...
...by ensuring access to resources and land for women?
And debunking the myth, I repeat, debunking the myths...
...that women have no land rights in Papua New Guinea?
We all know that there were some cultures which were...
...matrilineal, but even in the patrilineal culture...
...that I married into, there were rights.
I reflect on the 1960s to the 1980s when we were still practising...
...shifting cultivation on traditional land on the outskirts of Port Moresby.
Each year, the male clan leader would be out there...
...and we'd all be gathered as a clan, and he would start...
...allocating the land.
Were there blocks that were allocated to men? No.
Announcements would be made.
[Speaks Tok Pisin]
Dobi's mother's land.
[Speaks Tok Pisin]
Gaudi's mother's land.
And through all of it, my late mother-in-law...
...would oversee - she was widowed - would oversee...
...the management of all the gardens.
The women were named.
But what has happened to those very clear user rights...
...of women today?
It's very convenient to forget those things.
Individual male clan leaders negotiate the leasing...
...and sale of the land and alienate women...
...and families.
And particularly women, from their means of livelihood...
...without legal protection for future generations.
Widows and women married outside the village...
...are being denied access to land and are being forced...
...into dependence and poverty.
In fact, the latest urban demographic analysis...
...for the national capital district...
...has clearly shown that the poorest of the poor...
...in the capital city of Port Moresby are the traditional landowners...
...and the original settlers who were brought to Port Moresby...
...during colonial times to be labourers.
It's a very sobering thought.
The third- and fourth-generation settlers who are now...
...sometimes alienated from their traditional village support base.
And yet many of the development partner NGO projects...
...do not target the poorest of the poor in the city.
I am aware that I am rambling on with reflections!
Many of which may appear negative.
So it is time to bring some conclusions...
...to these reflections.
Although they may appear negative, they are not intended to be.
They merely illustrate that modernisation is a thin veneer...
...over the surface of thousands of years of cultural diversity.
The interface between the many indigenous tribes...
...and between tradition and modernity...
...is not an easy interface.
How can we get the best of many worlds for our people?
We all know there has been disappointing progress...
...in Papua New Guinea in the social field.
Economically, we are booming.
Despite much in-country effort and overseas development assistance...
...the reality is that the social indicators remain low...
...by regional and international standards.
And social disparity is increasing.
Major issues remain impediments to sustainable development.
But we need to acknowledge and strengthen the family...
...and the community as a foundation of the nation.
We need to provide knowledge and skills for families...
...to become economically viable, to take ownership of their futures.
To ensure at least sufficiency for all...
...and prosperity for some.
We need to strengthen belief systems based on trust...
...and personal empowerment, and discourage belief systems...
...based on fear and criticism.
There are endless stories of dysfunction from this interface.
How can we re-think service delivery to reach...
...beyond the formal systems and into the margins of the rural majority...
...and the urban poor?
The policies do exist.
Focusing on community, integrated community development policy...
...community-based disability policies...
...early childhood policies, informal economy policies...
...small and medium enterprise policies, microfinance policies...
...and they are increasing as governments become more aware...
...of this crisis at our community level.
Our challenge is how to roll out the implementation process...
...in partnership with the churches and the NGOs...
...and our development partners.
Not parallel partnerships, but integrated partnerships.
The churches and the NGOs are the best implementers...
...at community level.
But government must take more interest in that level.
We need to rethink development and accept that just...
...and lasting change can only be achieved...
...when communities own their future.
Mobilisation should start from national leadership.
But sustainability depends on continuing community participation.
Morals, policies, structural reform and budgeted development...
...programmes are essential, but they're not enough.
Even when they become institutionalised...
...laws and policies alone sometimes do not change reality...
...even with a strong bureaucracy.
In the final outcome, the solutions begin and end...
...in civil society, and we must strengthen our civil society...
...which tends to be a rather fractured civil society.
Let me end with a quote from Albert Einstein.
So I sound a little bit academic, eh!
Albert Einstein said: 'Setting an example is not...
...the main means of influencing others...
...it is the only means.'
That is the leadership challenge for us all.
And may I be a little bit frivolous...
...and invite you all to join the Mad Cat team?
I've got Mad Cats in [W ??] country...
I've got Mad Cats all around the place.
And who are the Mad Cat team?
They are people who believe in possibility thinking.
We must believe it is possible.
They want to be MAD and Make A Difference...
...as CATs - Change Agent Trainers - by recognising...
...that in a TEAM, Together Everyone Achieves More.
So let's take Papua New Guinea forward with a Team of Mad Cats.
Thank you.
[Applause]