Part Three – Peter Stace & JW (Bill) Gornall The Gateway for new rural development officers (didiman) to the PNG islands: Personal Experiences in 1967 Parts One and Two of this article focused on...
Peter Worsley I spent about 18 months as Officer In Charge at Kalalo Patrol Post on the north coast of the Morobe District, 2,500 feet above sea level. My nearest airstrip was at Wasu...
Gregory J Ivey & Russell Wade This article outlines the pre-independence evolution of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF), although readers may be aware that the first indigenous battalion was formed by the...
Chips Mackellar Tom Leahy was a scion of that famous pioneering dynasty of PNG. Like his equally famous family contemporaries, Mick and Danny Leahy, Tom was widely respected and much loved by expats and...
Dr David Tierney Recognising sacrifices made during the WWII Bougainville Conflict, Papua New Guinea The image, from page 15 in the Sydney Sun, 19 August 1945, with the caption ‘He was my mate’, shows...
Peter Skinner The chance discovery by Derek Baldwin of a small black and white school photograph in an old suitcase makes one wonder what other historic Papua New Guinea images are buried in family...
Sandy Miller Rod and I were going to be visiting PNG in April 2024, attending the ANZAC Day Dawn Service and Montevideo Maru Memorial Service in Rabaul. After a lot of thinking and internet...
Colin Pain It is well known that some mountains in the Papua New Guinea Highlands are extinct volcanoes, most having retained their original shape to some extent. These volcanoes have an important impact on...
Michael Kabuni PhD Candidate at the Australian National University (ANU) At the 2024 PNG Update, the PNG Prime Minister James Marape went to great lengths to argue that political stability is a prerequisite for...
Part ONE • BAKA BINA This story is my take on listening to my father talk about self-government with other men in the village and his play on the words sel gavaman/sel kambang and...
Trevor Freestone I was an education officer in Papua New Guinea from 1964 to 1975. My postings included Ambunti in the East Sepik District, Pagei in the Sandaun (West Sepik) Province and Bena Bena...
Garrett Roche Independence Day in Mt Hagen, 1975 I remember Independence Day 1975 in Mt Hagen. I had been in the country since 1970, based in the Western Highlands and I had some grasp...
Part ONE • Paul Munro AM In July 1961 I became one of the last ‘permanent’ officers appointed to the PNG Administration—as Legal Officer. At 85, I am among the last survivors of the...
As Papua New Guinea approaches 2025, the year marking 50 years of independence, Prime Minister Hon. James Marape issued a heartfelt message to the nation, urging every citizen to unite and work together for...
1883: HM Chester, Queensland Government Agent on Thursday Island, raised the Union Jack near present-day Port Moresby and annexed, on behalf of Queen Victoria, that part of New Guinea and adjacent islands lying between...
