Practice without Policy: Genesis of local government in Papua New Guinea
Australian National University Press, 318pp, $9 pb
Decay before development
This book is about the early stages of the establishment and evolution of native local government councils in Papua New Guinea. The author, David Fenbury, was in charge of the first phase of this undertaking and the objective of his book was to record the early sequence of events. He begins with an overview of the local government system in 1975 in a state of decay even while it was being extended to the few remaining areas that it had not reached by the time of independence.
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Practice without Policy: Genesis of local government in Papua New Guinea
by D.M. Fenbury
Australian National University Press, 318pp, $9 pb
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