Papua New Guinea & Rugby League
Patrick Bourke It has been said that there are two religions in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Christianity and rugby league. Both have been introduced into PNG and have been taken up enthusiastically. PNG is...
Articles
Pope Francis Urges ‘Closeness, Compassion and Tenderness’ During His Visit to PNG
Mary Mennis As head of the Catholic Church worldwide, the Pope visited Papua New Guinea from 6 to 9 September as part of a four-nation Apostolic journey of South-East Asia and Oceania. The Pontiff’s...
MEMORIAL NEWS
2024 NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge This aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a...
VALES & TRIBUTES
CLIFFORD | DAVIES | MAYNARD | McCARTHY | MOORE | NEEDHAM | PELIKAN | TAYLOR | WILLIAMS CLIFFORD, Leon Saturday, 18 May 2024 The PNG Forestry mob has lost another Forest icon with the...
PNG IN THE NEWS
30th Australia-PNG Ministerial Forum The largest delegation of Australian ministers attended the 30th Australia-PNG Ministerial Forum on 19 June, which saw Australia commit to a suite of new initiatives aimed at strengthening PNG’s national...
LETTERS & REVIEWS
South Pacific Aero Club Memorabilia Having been the foundation secretary and Strip Report editor of the South Pacific Aero Clubs (SPAC) in the mid-1960s, I am in the process of writing a family history...
EVENTS NEWS & DIARY
PERTH: PNGAA WA Catch Up – Friday, 3 May 2024 The PNGAA WA meets quarterly in Perth and sometimes members catch up outside of the larger group. There was a recent get-together at the...
PNGAA REPORT
Management Committee Update With the 50th anniversary of independence fast approaching, a letter has been sent from PNGAA to the Australian Prime Minister with a request that Australia celebrate this occasion. It requests consideration...
30th Anniversary of the Volcanic Destruction of Rabaul
On 19 September 1994, with little warning, two volcanos—Vulcan and Tavurvur—erupted and buried East New Britain’s capital, Rabaul, known as the ‘pearl of the Pacific’ and ‘Frangipani Town’. Almost two decades after PNG achieved...
Remembering Glenys ‘Gleny’ Köhnke
Well-known artist, sculptor and author, Gleny was born in Brisbane, Qld on 23 October 1948, and was drawing and painting for as long as she could remember, deciding at a young age that she...
My PNG Journey
Liz MacKinlay, CEO of Australian Business Volunteers My journey with Papua New Guinea is deeply intertwined with my family’s history and my own love for the country. My family has a long connection to...
Panguna Women After Closure of the Mine
Simon Pentanu I took this shot from a moving vehicle on a visit to Panguna on 15 January 2016. The photo isn’t great resolution-wise, but please read on. As our vehicle descended toward the...
Matapui – Part Three
By Ekke Beinssen Parts One and Two of this article were published in previous editions of PNG Kundu. They were taken from an account written by Ekke Beinssen of a 1929 exploratory expedition to...
Crossing the Saruwageds, Easter 1976 – Part Three
Ian Howie-Willis Part Two of this three-part series described how the author and his three Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) companions tried to find their way down the northern side of the...
Cathay Community Association of Brisbane
Ken Cheung OAM In the early 1980s, many former residents of Papua New Guinea living in Brisbane would often meet at Kingston Sports Centre for an informal get-together. The young people would play squash...
