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 The Scheduled visit of Australian Prime Minister to PNG has been deferred to early 2023 Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has received news that his counterpart Anthony Albanese will not be able to come to Papua New Guinea from the 12 and 13 December as planned. Prime Minister Marape said his counterpart has tested positive for COVID and is currently isolating therefore his planned visit has now been rescheduled to 2023. He wishes for Prime Minister Albanese full recovery and looks forward to his visit early next year. Papua New Guinea has had a unique and long shared history and Australia is one of Papua New Guinea’s important development partners. He knows the visit and corresponding meetings that will occur during the visit will help enhance and strengthen our already strong friendship that has our shared history embedded in it. Next :  PNG’s Jakarta Embassy to get K6 million Makeover

Readers, please join me welcoming Susan Shapiro Barash , author of Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships who’ll be guest blogging here today! In Toxic Friends (St. Martin’s Press, 288 p, ISBN: 0312386397) , Barash explores the ten types of female friends and shows you why and how women get stuck with the worst kinds, the ways to get “unstuck, and how to recognize a true friend.” How Female Friendships Run Amok by Susan Shapiro Barash One of the more curious aspects of female friendship is how strained it can become once two close friends no longer share the same circumstances. I call this, ‘the mirroring friend’ syndrome. It happens frequently and in all sorts of situations. For instance, one friend is on her third child and her best childhood friend is still single. Or a friend gets a promotion and her best friend loses her job. In these instances the women who once had parallel lives no longer reflect one another. And this creates tension in the