The Fish Trap Builders of Raluana Village
John F Bent Sixty years ago, I had the privilege of being employed by the Papua New Guinea Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries as an agricultural extension officer. To my local colleagues and...
Articles
The Kiap Memorial:or How We Got Promised One A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
Bill Sanders Between 1878 and 1977, 85 kiaps died in Papua, New Guinea, and the Territory of Papua New Guinea (TPNG). Variously, hostile inhabitants, disease, executions by the Japanese, volcanic eruptions, vehicle accidents, drowning,...
Panguna Mine—A House with a View
Simon Pentanu PANGUNA on Bougainville Island has many stories to tell. There is a helluva lot to see—enough beauty and destruction to boggle the mind whenever you visit up here. Once upon a time,...
Honouring Max
Part One Max Macgowan & John May, Rabaul, 1941 Tempe Macgowan (TM) & Marian May (MM) This article was co-written by Tempe Macgowan and Marian May, honouring the life of Max Macgowan, one of...
Part-Time Journalist in Rabaul
Michael White I arrived in Rabaul on Christmas Eve 1967, a newly-minted adult at 21, to take up a position as Station Clerk, Rabaul Police Station. I had spent the previous two and a...
Crossing the Saruwageds, Easter 1976 Part Two
Ian Howie-Willis Part One of this three-part series described how the author and his three Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) companions lost their way in dense fog while crossing the broad plateau...
Muriel Larner MBE—a Mother’s Legacy
Rosalie Everest Rosalie Everest plans to return to the Eastern Highlands of PNG in June 2024 with her mother’s ashes. This is Part 1 of a two-part story. Before my mother, Muriel Larner, née...
Department of Agriculture, Stock & Fisheries, Taliligap, Rabaul Part One
THE GATEWAY FOR NEW RURAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS (Didiman) TO THE PNG ISLANDS: Personal Experiences in 1967 By Peter Stace & JW (Bill) Gornall In October 2023, I received the following email from an old...
The Road to Officialdom – Hell and Back THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY CITIZENSHIP DEBATE
By Patricia Chow This article is a very brief overview of how Australian citizenship came about in our PNGCCAA community. There are some people who may still have memories of these times, and one...
MEMORIAL NEWS
Silentworld Foundation Commemorative Dinner with the Australian Prime Minister A commemorative dinner was held on Monday 27 November 2023 in the Aircraft Hall at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to honour all those...
VALES & TRIBUTES March 2024
NELSON | REGAN | WEBER | YOUNG NELSON, Kieran 7 February 2024 We are sad to advise that Kieran passed away at Greenslopes Hospital in Brisbane on 7 February 2024. He was a wonderful wantok/friend...
PNG IN THE NEWS
Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport Papua New Guinea’s second international airport was opened on 2 October 2023 by Prime Minister James Marape. The redevelopment of Nadzab began in November 2019 with the assistance of a...
BOOKS & ART REVIEWS
R Wally Johnson & Neville A Threlfall Return to Volcano Town—Reassessing the 1937–1943 Eruptions at Rabaul This is an expanded, more detailed version of the book published by the same authors in 1985—Volcano Town:...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
PNG’s Constitution Belated congratulations on the article about the PNG Constitution by Judge Kerr in your September 2023 edition. From his tenure as Law Faculty Dean at UPNG up to his current ADF review,...
