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– Stop failing Pacific press test, PFF tells Australia and PNG (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News April 13, 2017

Australia and Papua New Guinea must review media relations after two separate but equally "shocking" bans on PNG press, says PFF, the Pacific Freedom Forum.
Source: MEDIA FEED

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