Speech to World Ethics Forum, Oxford University 22 October 2006 by Rt Hon Mekere Morauta, KCMG Background: Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea has only 30 years experience of managing its own house. It has a relatively small population, 5.5 million, made up of thousands of different tribes with their own cultures and speaking over 800 languages – roughly one quarter of the world’s languages. The level of literacy is low - around 60 per cent. Some tribes and some parts of t