Pangu Returns to Power

The 1982 Elections in Papua New Guinea

• Author(s): Peter King,
• Publisher: Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University
• Pages: 315
• ISBN_10: 0731506669
  ISBN_13: 9780731506668
  
• Language: en

Description:... Examines the political background to the 1982 elections; transverses such campaign issues as corruption and extravagance in government, relations ith Indonesia, divisions in the ruling coalition and party swapping; and, analyses the national election result and its aftermath in Pangu's parliamentary triumph of August 1982.