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Independence · 1975–1988

  • Independence, 16 September 1975

    Papua New Guinea is one of the few countries that wrote its own constitution before independence rather than after it, and one of the fewer still that got it from a committee of its own parliamentarians rather than a departing colonial office.

    16 September 1975