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Dr Mark Thomson worked for AusAID for about 20 years, with overseas postings in Mauritius, India and PNG. He took early retirement in 2004. Mark managed law and justice and community development programs in PNG for about a decade, and co-ordinated the PNG drought task force in 1998.
