{"id":2385,"date":"2011-12-18T22:50:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T02:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2011-12-18T22:50:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T02:50:48","slug":"radio-australia-increases-shortwave-broadcasts-into-papua-new-guinea-on-17750-khz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/radio-australia-increases-shortwave-broadcasts-into-papua-new-guinea-on-17750-khz\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Australia increases shortwave broadcasts into Papua New Guinea on 17,750 kHz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"(Source: Radio Australia News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Papua New Guinea’s parliament was resuming on Monday, despite no clear resolution to the country’s political crisis.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Peter O’Neill says his government has taken control of the police and state offices.<\/em><\/p>\n

[…]Earlier he said: “This clear direction now – this building will be in lockdown, only accessible to the Prime Minister (myself) and the Public Services Minister, who’s got an office in this office, and only the workers of this office.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“No other members of the public will be allowed to come into this office.”<\/em><\/p>\n

[…]ABC Radio Australia has increased its shortwave broadcasts to Papua New Guinea to help inform people about developments in the PNG political crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n

Between 0930 and 1700 Port Moresby time, an extra frequency, 17750 kHz, will be added to the broadcast services for PNG.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Radio Australia News) Papua New Guinea’s parliament was resuming on Monday, despite no clear resolution to the country’s political crisis.\u00a0 Peter O’Neill says his government has taken control of the police and state offices. […]Earlier he said: “This clear direction now – this building will be in lockdown, only accessible to the Prime Minister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,81,3],"tags":[86,368,726,84],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-current-events","category-news","tag-abc","tag-radio-australia","tag-radio-australia-papua-new-guinea","tag-why-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-Ct","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6467,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/the-age-national-times-radio-australia-may-cut-broadcasts-to-chinaindonesia\/","url_meta":{"origin":2385,"position":0},"title":"The Age National Times: Radio Australia may cut broadcasts to China\/Indonesia","author":"Thomas","date":"May 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to Richard Cuff for bringing this item to my attention: (Source: The Age - National Times) The ABC could soon abandon international shortwave radio broadcasts to China and Indonesia, ending more than 70 years of beaming news and current affairs on high frequency into Asia. 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