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Tales of PNG Speakers Event – 21 March 2021
31 Mar, 2021
- 21 January 1951: Marjorie Kleckham 75th Anniversary Across New Ireland by foot: Peter Comerford AGM Aircraft accidents involving kiaps: Paul Oates Alotau: John Quinn Badihagwa Cemetery Bougainville Compendium Compendum December2017 Emirau: Warren Martin event Fifties in Rabaul: Jan Barnes Goroka revisited: Bob Cleland Hamamas Hotel has its own currency: Maxwell R Hayes Hela Province in grip of tribal warfare: Nicholas Yambu Independence Day in Wewak: Charles Betteridge Jimi River memories: Peter Skinner June2017 June2018 Kiap Kiaps; Compendium Kiunga rubber 40 years later: George Greenwood Life after PNG—Margaret Clancy: Marie Clifton-Bassett lunch March2017 March2018 MBE Memories of the 50s in the Morobe District: Leo Butler OAM OBE OK Tedi Paul Quinlivan's Snapshots PNG pngaa Port Moresby: Chris Warrillow Rabaul September2017 Some old New Guinea photos Taim tudak (Time of darkness): Peter Barter The eruption of Mount Lamington Vale September 2015 Volcanoes: Charles Betteridge Wewak
The Papua New Guinea Association of Australia (PNGAA) invited Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare GCL GCMG CH CF SSI KSG PC MP to be our guest at the annual Christmas luncheon on Sunday 3 December 2017 in Sydney. Sir Raymond Thurecht OBE travelled to Sydney to attend with Sir Michael. 135 people attended the special lunch. Sir Michael renewed acquaintances with people he had known pre-Independence and who were instrumental in the changeover of government from Australia to PNG in the lead up to 1975. He also renewed acquaintances with old friends and met current Australians and Papua New Guineans living in Sydney and surrounds who retain close connections with a land that is close to their hearts.
Ross and Pat Johnson took along a photo collage which included a wonderful photo of the young Michael Somare, a photo of Pagei Patrol Post near Wewak and a photo of some of the members and staff of PNG’s 2nd House of Assembly Select Committee on Constitutional Development. It was a happy day celebrating our two countries.