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Notice of Coming 2025 AGM and committee nominations

Dear Members, PNGAA 74th Annual General Meeting 2025 The 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia (PNGAA) will be on Sunday, 27 April 2025. Every two years elections are held for the PNGAA Management Committee. All positions, executive and general, are automatically vacated, and a new committee is voted into office. Nominations are …

Visit to Sacred Heart International Catholic School in Vunapope, April 2024

Visit to Sacred Heart International Catholic School in Vunapope, April 2024

A school visit. by Sandy Miller It was an unexpected privilege to make a school visit during our trip to PNG in April 2024. Andrea Williams, assisted by Dame Sandra Lau, coordinated a visit for a few of us to the Sacred Heart International Catholic School, and Mary Immaculate Catholic Primary school in Vunapope. We arrived on …

Gift Subscription to the PNGAA

Are you enjoying your subscription to the PNGAA? Do you know someone who might enjoy a subscription to the PNGAA? If so, the process for making such a “gift” to that person can be found below. The PNGAA produces a quarterly journal called the PNG KUNDU which is 64 full colour glossy pages containing articles about news …

The PNGAA Management Committee had its inaugural meeting for 2024 last evening (10 January) and what a productive meeting it was! Members hooked in from Queensland, NSW, Victoria and Western Australia! We thought you’d like an update. First up was welcoming our newest member, Kylee Andersen, from Perth. If you haven’t already, you’ll …

PNGAA AGM Nominations due 5pm 31 January 2023! Several positions need volunteers!

PNGAA AGM Nominations due 5pm 31 January 2023!!!  Please consider nominating and send your signed forms in now.  Information and nomination forms are available to members at: https://pngaa.org/documents-relating-to-the-2023-agm/ Either scan or photograph them and email to admin@pngaa.net PNGAA urgently needs volunteers for: PNGAA Treasurer: Our current Treasurer, Murrough Benson has been on the committee for 7 years now and needs …

Check your your membership expiry on the address label of the December's PNG Kundu- and renew now!

Check your your membership expiry on the address label of the December’s PNG Kundu- and renew now!

The December 2022 issue of PNG Kundu was posted out on 21 October 2022 and is about to hit members’ letterboxes or inboxes. PNGAA asks that you check your address label on the envelope for your membership expiry date and if you need to renew for 2023, please assist by doing it now. Details are in …

BOUGAINVILLE IN 2024 – 6 September 2024 – in person and online – Free

Date: Friday 6 September Time: 9.00 am – 1:00 pm AEDT Where: Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 1, ANU; AND online; Free;  Please register at: Bougainville in 2024 | Humanitix Please note that this is a hybrid event. For online attendance please sign up to obtain the Zoom link. Access link will be delivered via email upon registration. In the morning of 6th …

Cairns function in July 2024

On Saturday 27 July former kiaps, friends and family gathered at Yorkeys Knob Boating Club in Cairns.   About 45 people attended, with many coming from far away places – Steven (1980) and Delilah Peters from Lae, Frank Leibfried (1960) and Shushila Desai from Tasmania, Mike Press (1966) from Darwin and Rick Rogerson and Kay Mori …

BOOK LAUNCH KOKODA LEGEND-CAPTAIN SAM TEMPLETON by David Howell

When: Wednesday 3 July 2024, 6 for 6.30pm Where: East Malvern RSL, Stanley Grose Dr, Malvern East VIC 3145. Cost: Free (finger food & open bar will be provided to guests on the night) RSVP: info@kokodahistorical.com.au Key Note Speaker-Historian Carl Johnson author of Mud Over Blood-Stories of the 39th Battalion-1941-1943. If you have trekked Kokoda, then the campsite of Templeton’s …

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