PNG Parliament fails for the last time to nominate women to house

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Updated March 20, 2009 11:36:12

Papua New Guinea's Parliament has failed yet again to vote on a motion to nominate three women to the house, with Parliament's only woman MP Dame Carol Kidu saying she felt humiliated after the Government consistently failed to get enough MPs in the house at any one time to push the vote through. As Friday is the last day Parliament sits before rising, it's unlikely another attempt will be made to pass the motion for weeks.


Presenter Firmin Nanol

Speaker: Papua New Guinea MP Dame Carol Kidu

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