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Visit to Bilas Exhibition, Australian Museum, Sydney
September 29, 2023
- Alotau: John Quinn Badihagwa Cemetery Bougainville Compendium Compendum Cruise to Rabaul: Bob Cleland December2017 Education Hela Province in grip of tribal warfare: Nicholas Yambu Jimi River memories: Peter Skinner June2017 June2018 Kiap March2017 March2018 Morning in Goroka: John Pearne Nondugl Hallstrom livestock station: John Browne Nondugl in the 1970s: Ken Woodward Nondugl—Birds of Paradise and interesting visitors: Gordon Dick OAM OAM: Chips Mackellar OBE OK Tedi Paul Quinlivan's Snapshots PNG pngaa Port Moresby: Chris Warrillow Rabaul Rabaul's beginnings: Neville Threlfall Rabaul Cenotaph: Gerry McGrade Rabaul—Humming with life post-eruption: Peter Routley Return to New Ireland: Leen van Lien Sanguma Nescafé: David Fopp September2017 Some old New Guinea photos Tabibuga–My experience: Roy Kirkby Taim tudak (Time of darkness): Peter Barter The eruption of Mount Lamington The Okapa pine forest: Alan Ross Tunnel adventures in Rabaul: Rod Pearce Under that tamarind tree: Author unknown Volcanoes: Charles Betteridge Waste not: Denis Compston Watabung Primary School: Trevor Freestone 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.