| 词条 | Josephine Abaijah |
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She was re-elected in 1977, and stood unsuccessfully for a third term in 1982. After fifteen years out of Parliament, she was elected once more in 1997.[3] She founded and led the Papua Besena movement, which agitated unsuccessfully for Papua to become a completely independent country on its own instead of being linked with New Guinea as Papua New Guinea.[4] She expressed support for Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka's military coup in Fiji in 1987.[5] {{Why?|date=March 2010}} Asked by the Pacific Journalism Review for her opinion as to why there were (in 1995) no women in Papua New Guinea's Parliament, she stated: "I maintain that I will not give money to somebody to vote for me. So I think that's one big reason. The men can get money, the men can bribe. We are finding it very difficult for women to go around bribing people. I think this is where the country is going nowhere because here there is a lot of bribes, there is a lot of corruption, something that women don't want in this country."[6] Regarding the condition of women, she told the Review: "Now women can't go from their homes to their gardens because of fear of being raped. It's unfortunate. I don't want to paint a picture that is negative -- this is my country and when I talk about it I want to give a good picture of it -- because I want to be proud of it. But how can I be proud of it when these are things that are happening?"[7] Her autobiography, A Thousand Coloured Dreams,[8] was published in 1991. References1. ^Brij V. Lal, Kate Fortune. The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia. Published by University of Hawaii Press, 2000. pg 297. 2. ^John D. Waiko, A Short History of Papua New Guinea, Oxford University Press, 2001 [1993], {{ISBN|0-19-553164-7}}, p.182 3. ^Sepoe, Orovu, "To make a difference: Realities of women’s participation in Papua New Guinea politics", Development Bulletin, no. 59, 2002, page 40 (Electronic version {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913081716/http://devnet.anu.edu.au/GenderPacific/pdfs/06_gen_civil_sepoe.pdf |date=2009-09-13 }}) 4. ^"The Reluctant Nation", Time magazine, September 29, 1975 5. ^Brij V. Lal, Broken waves: a history of the Fiji Islands in the twentieth century, University of Hawaii Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-8248-1418-5}}, pp. 293-94 6. ^"Papua New Guinea: Under the Spell", Pacific Journalism Review, Vol 2, #1 (November 1995) 7. ^Pacific Journalism Review, ibid. 8. ^Abaijah, Josephine and Dr. Eric Wright, A Thousand Coloured Dreams: The Story of a Young Girl Growing up in Papua, Dellasta Pacific. Mount Waverley, Victoria, 1991 External links
10 : Living people|Grand Companions of the Order of Logohu|Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire|People from Milne Bay Province|Members of the House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea|Members of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea|Papua New Guinean women in politics|20th-century women politicians|Women members of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea|1940 births |
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