ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the activities and discourse of two key anti-corruption organisations in PNG. The first is the Ombudsman Commission of PNG (OC PNG), the country's oldest anti-corruption institution. The OC PNG is an industry insider, it is supported by the Australian aid programme and it occasionally works with TI PNG. The views of this anti-corruption stalwart are compared to those of the Coalition, a group of protestors who took their concerns about elite corruption, particularly that of Prime Minister Michael Somare, to the streets. The chapter examines the ways these organisations reflect the mainstream and alternative views on corruption. The CPC wrote clearly about the potential for state officials to fall victim to various types of corruption, including bribery and gifts to leaders, and corrupt engagement with foreign companies. PNG has a history of street-level protest. In 1990, for instance, students, union members and others joined in the streets of Port Moresby to protest against growing levels of corruption.
