The landslide catastrophe in Enga, PNG, will reverberate for years after the emergency phase. I was invited by the 7am podcast to talk briefly about the broader context of an event like this in the highlands. The things I tried to highlight are the remoteness/lack of basic services; how years of tribal fighting will complicate the response and how that reverberates from the Porgera mine; how THAT connects to the behaviours of extractive industry including Australian companies in PNG over many years; and urging that the response to this emergency focuses on services that can deliver in the long term. Also – we need some serious science to figure out what happened here, and whether and where there is further risk. Maybe recent quakes? Maybe the huge amount of rain in the highlands lately? Both? Whether changing rainfall patterns contributed to this, and judging by anecdotal but reliable evidence that question deserves urgent investigation, this is the kind of extreme event which we know is coming. Thanks to all the PNG friends who responded to my callout for help in this. Listen here: https://7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/why-the-png-landslide-should-be-australias-problem-too