Helpim Wantok Project
Our fundraising goal is nearly there, but not quite, and we need your support with some more donations to achieve this. For several months now many of you know that the PNGAA has been...
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PNGAA VIC March 2018 Lunch – everyone welcome!
Date: Saturday 24 March 2018 Event: March PNGAA VIC Lunch – meet for lunch & support “Helpim Wantok” Project Venue: Caulfield RSL, 4 St Georges Rd, Elsternwick, VIC Time: 12 Noon RSVP: Friday 16...
How and When New Guinea was Won – and the Loss of AE1 By GPO HH Kemsley
First published in Una Voce, journal of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Inc, June 2009 page 46 – with thanks to Jim Kemsley These extracts were taken from the diary of Petty...
STOP PRESS – Vale James (Jim) Sinclair CSM OBE D.Litt (18/04/1928 – 9/10/2017)
The Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Inc is saddened to hear news that Jim Sinclair passed away in hospital at 12:15am on 9 October 2017. Jim was one of the old school of...
Coastwatcher talk, Brisbane
A wonderful collaboration between PNGAA, NGVR/PNGVR Ex members Association and the NSAAQ saw close to 140 people attend the talk today by Philip Selth OAM on Coastwatchers JJ Murphy, Jack Read and Paul Mason....
75th Anniversary Montevideo Maru, Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
On 22 June 1942, 75 years ago, 1053 Australians boarded a Japanese hellship, Montevideo Maru, in Rabaul, the capital of the Australian Mandated Territory of New Guinea, and on 1 July 1942 every one...
PNGAA/RMvM Book ‘When the War Came: New Guinea Islands 1942’
This book is a collection of personal stories, memories and reflections that enhance the history of civilians and soldiers living in Rabaul, Kavieng and the New Guinea islands at the outbreak of World War...
PNGAA invites you to hear Philip Selth OAM speak on the Coastwatchers – JJ Murphy, Jack Read and Paul Mason
Philip Selth OAM, the retired Executive Director of the New South Wales Bar Association and retired CEO of the Australian Bar Association, came across the former New Guinea Patrol officer captain John Joseph...
22 June and 1 July 2017 – 75th Anniversary WWII Rabaul and New Guinea Islands
On 22 June 1942, nearly 75 years ago, 1053 Australians boarded a Japanese hellship in Rabaul, the capital of the Australian Mandated Territory of New Guinea, and on 1 July 1942 every one of...
PNG/Australia community mourns Lavah Watts – ‘so precious to so many’
Our thoughts are with Graham Watts and his family on the loss of his wife Lavah. Lavah Watts died on Sunday 4 June 2017, succumbing to injuries she suffered after being crushed by a...
75th Anniversary RMvM Dinner and accommodation Canberra
The 75th Anniversary Dinner at the Hotel Mercure Canberra is currently at capacity, waitlist only available. We are discussing whether we may be able to extend into another room. The Hotel Mercure in Canberra...
Canberra Locals run to help family and sexual violence victims through Femili PNG
Georgina Connery reports: Pounding the pavement in their purple shirts is all good fun but a Canberra group entered in the Australian Running Festival are united by a passion to help Papua New Guinea...
Retrospective on Ivan Champion
Ivan Champion’s grandson, Ross, has put together a retrospective on his grandfather who first went to PNG in 1898, aged 18 years. Some of the photos in this wonderful collection are up to 95...
Pacific Islands Monthly – digitised by the NLA and now in Trove!
The National Library has recently completed the digitisation of the entire run of the Pacific Islands Monthly magazine and all of the issues can be browsed or the text fully searched on Trove.
Memorial News
75th ANNIVERSARY SERVICES RABAUL and MONTEVIDEO MARU – to be held in RABAUL on 22 JUNE 2017, the AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, CANBERRA, ACT, on 1 July 2017. These services remember all those lost in...
