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A movement of successors — from Sir Mekere Morauta's founding generation to the leadership team steering the Papua New Guinea Party today.
Leader of the PNG Party since 2010. Member for Vanimo-Green River Electorate since 2007 (4th consecutive term). Minister for Tourism, Arts & Culture; former Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition.
President of the Papua New Guinea Party, supporting the parliamentary leadership on party organisation, membership and strategy.
Secretary of the Papua New Guinea Party, responsible for the party's administration and official records.
Officer roles per the party's public registration record. Photographs are shown where publicly available.
Papua New Guinea Party leadership across the generations.
The reformers who built the party as a national institution — and the generation that rallied around Namah in the years that followed.
7th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (1999–2002). Career economist — Secretary of Finance, head of the state banking corporation, Governor of the central bank. Founded the party in 2007; handed leadership to Namah in 2010. Passed away in December 2020.
MP who co-founded the Papua New Guinea Party alongside Sir Mekere Morauta in 2007, helping shape its founding reformist platform.
Part of the energetic generation of MPs who rallied around Namah from 2010, speaking for reform and a genuine alternative in national politics. Sam Basil died in 2022; Jamie Maxtone-Graham has also since passed.
Soldier turned statesman — from the Sandline affair to two decades in the National Parliament.
Born in Vanimo, near PNG's border with Indonesia. Graduated from Australia's Royal Military College, Duntroon, and trained with a PNG Defence Force special forces unit.
One of five PNGDF officers who arrested Sandline International founder Tim Spicer, after Sandline mercenaries were hired to recapture the Panguna mine on Bougainville — a defining moment in PNG's civil-military history.
Elected MP for Vanimo-Green River Open. Served as Minister of Forestry & Natural Resources in the Somare–Temu cabinet.
Resigned from cabinet and joined Sir Mekere Morauta's Papua New Guinea Party, succeeding him as party leader and Leader of the Opposition.
Served as Deputy PM and Minister of Forestry & Natural Resources under PM Peter O'Neill through the 2011–2012 constitutional crisis. Lost the cabinet post after the 2012 election; Opposition Leader 2012–2014.
Retained Vanimo-Green River in 2017 and 2022, and returned to the role of Opposition Leader in the years between governments.
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs & Defence Parliamentary Committee from September 2022; later commissioned Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture in the Marape government, now serving his 4th consecutive term.
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