I met a kid working at Leeds Fest this summer whos doing medicine, he went to work in PNG last summer as part of his course. He said the standard of medical treatment isn't so bad at the main hospital in the capital (can't comment on elsewhere, but where do you think they'd play...), but they do have a lot of general health problems.

The NRL would be great for PNG as a country and I'm sure it would do the countrys tourism trade no harm at all. Don't think they'd have any shortage in talent given a year or so.

Do they have the internet and proper sewers in PNG?

Everytime I've seen pictures or video from there it all seems almost completely rural, with no infrastructure at all.

Of course they have sewers where else would the kids play?



Like most 3rd world cities it has small affluent areas and then big slum areas.

Thats downtown Bassendean

Yes and yes.



Perhaps you need to do a bit more searching. Would you for example expect to see kangaroos and emus roaming around in the middle of Sydney just because you have seen a film on the Australian bush?

Cheers for your input Ken, it's great to have comments from someone "on the ground", so to speak.