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Papua New Guinea stumbles to an election

An Australian Federal Policeman guards the entrance during a demonstration against police violence earlier in the week against university students in Port Moresby, outside the Papua New Guinea Consulate in Sydney, Australia, 10 June 2016. (Photo: Reuters/Jason Reed)

With a recession in the non-resource economy, abuses of police power and suppression of inconvenient statistics, PNG edges worryingly closer to autocracy.