FreshEd #315 – Settling for Less (Lachlan McNamee)
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The Differences Between Papua New Guinea and the Philippines
Australia failed to colonize Papua New Guinea because it was too developed. Indonesia on the other hand did manage to kind of just settle West Papua with people from the core and has been managed to extract a lot of resources from West Papua. So decolonization was a response to the failure of colonization, the failure of white colonization in Papua New Guinea and the absence of decolonization in West Papua is the outcome of the success of colonization.
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