{"id":23885,"date":"2020-10-17T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/17\/deal-with-the-disaster-the-girl-from-bougainville-who-grew-up-to-take-on-a-mining-giant"},"modified":"2020-10-17T04:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T19:00:06","slug":"deal-with-the-disaster-the-girl-from-bougainville-who-grew-up-to-take-on-a-mining-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23885","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Deal with the disaster&#8217;: the girl from Bougainville who grew up to take on a mining giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panguna mine is often cast as the economic key to Bougainville\u2019s potential independence, but young MP Theonila Matbob says her people, and their land, must come first<\/p>\n<p>For all of Theonila Roka Matbob\u2019s three decades, the scar on her land that was once the world\u2019s largest copper mine has cast a pall.<\/p>\n<p>The Panguna mine in Bougainville, eastern Papua New Guinea, has not yielded a single ounce in her lifetime \u2013 forced shut the year before Matbob was born &#8211; but she grew up in the shadow of the violent civil war it provoked.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/17\/deal-with-the-disaster-the-girl-from-bougainville-who-grew-up-to-take-on-a-mining-giant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panguna mine is often cast as the economic key to Bougainville\u2019s potential independence, but young MP Theonila Matbob says her people, and their land, must come firstFor all of Theonila Roka Matbob\u2019s three decades, the scar on her land that was once th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,945,65,730,874,267,1524,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bougainville","category-environment","category-mining","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-rio-tinto","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23886,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23885\/revisions\/23886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}