Download Australia is sending two-hundred-and-ten police officers and more than sixty other officials, including finance and customs experts, to Papua New Guinea. The Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, has been upbeat about their chances of success in a country beset by deep-seated social and economic problems. He warned, however, that the enhanced cooperation programme should not be seen as a magic wand. Mr Downer said that everyone involved faced a long, hard journey to make it work. Australia will spend around six-hundred-million dollars over the next five years trying to bring stability back to its former colony, which gained independence in 1975.
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