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distance education provider that was shut down by state authorities there after the state
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in 1949. His family had first arrived in Papua New Guinea in 1906 when his grandfather was appointed Chief
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that warned of a serious disaster risk in approving new development on the Cairns slopes and some low-lying areas was set-aside in favour of more favourable reports from the
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