02919ntc a22002297i 45000010005000000080041000050400026000461000032000722450082001042640009001863000027001953360021002223370023002433380032002665000019002985060029003175201791003465330077021375400080022145450195022948560200024894246140313s1991    xx            000 0|eng d  aANU:PMBcANU:PMBerda1 aShaw, Basil Johnd1933-200210aSomare: a political biography of the first Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea  c1991  a1 reel; 35mm microfilm  atext2rdacontent  acomputer2rdamedia  aonline resource2rdacarrier  aAU PMB MS 1229  aAvailable for reference.2 aBasil Shaw BA, BEd, DPE (Qld), MA (Ed., London), PhD, completed his biography of Michael Somare as a PhD dissertation in the Division of Humanities, Griffith University, Queensland. A study of traditional leadership in Papua New Guinean societies provides the conceptual framework for Basil Shaw’s, Somare: A Political Biography of the First Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. His study examines Somare’s life from his birth in the Murik Lakes in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea in 1936 to his loss of the prime ministership of Papua New Guinea in 1985. The study is presented in two parts. The first part, Chapters 1-4, establishes a need for a biography of Somare and identifies three major objectives: firstly, to review the material in Somare’s autobiography, Sana, which covers the period to 1975, and to add to it where possible; secondly, to update Somare’s life to 1985, when he lost the prime ministership for the second time, and thirdly to explore the relationship between traditional leadership and contemporary political leadership at the national level. The second part of the study, Chapters 5 to 10, is the political biography proper. The early chapters focus on the developmental stages of Somare’s life, showing how the leadership characteristics of oratory, effective communication, negotiating ability and the determination to retain power function in the National Parliament. The latter chapters of this part of the dissertation examine the difficulties that Somare and others faced in the introduction of the Westminster system of government into Papua New Guinea. The challengers whom Somare has faced as a political leader, and the issues which deprived him of government in 1980 and 1985, are also examined. (From Basil Shaw’s ‘Abstract’.)  aElectronic reproduction:bCanberra :cPacific Manuscripts Bureau, d2014  aAvailable for reference.uhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/copyright.php0 aBasil Shaw BA, BEd, DPE (Qld), MA (Ed., London), PhD, completed his biography of Michael Somare as a PhD dissertation in the Division of Humanities, Griffith University, Queensland, in 1991.41uhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/digital/catalogue/index.php/somare-political-biography-of-first-prime-minister-of-papua-new-guineazView this item in the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Catalogue.