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...
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...
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.
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...
A service to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the fall of the New Guinea islands in early 1942 and the sinking of the Montevideo Maru on 1 July 1942 will be held at the...
Rabaul and Montevideo Maru 75th Anniversary Commemorative Dinner at Canberra Mercure on 1 July 2017, following 1pm service at Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Time: 6.00pm Venue: Mercure Canberra, Corner of Ainslie and Limestone Ave,...
The 66th Annual General Meeting of the PNGAA will be held on 30 April 2017 following a short Special General Meeting (SGM) to consider a proposal amending the quorum for an AGM.
The HEBOU PNG Barramundis defeated ACT XI in a last ball thriller by three (3) runs in the Prime Minister’s XI curtain raiser at Manuka Oval, Canberra, yesterday, Thursday 15 February. This followed a...
The ACT has named a 12-man squad to take on a PNG XI as curtain-raiser to the Prime Minister’s XI’s clash with Sri Lanka at Manuka Oval on February 15. Cricket ACT launched its PNG...
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Dennis Gray’s contribution is a compilation of photographs taken by his Uncle, Bill Gray (circa 1935-41), his father, Charles Gray (circa 1940-41), and himself during 1969-73. It is a wonderful collection of aviation history...
WHERE: Public Schools Club, Sandford House, 207 East Terrace, Adelaide Barry Taverner will speak on ‘Return Journeys’ Contact Jan Kleinig janis.kleinig@bigpond.com 0438 032 640 Or Peter Thomas pjthomas@ihug.com.au 0438 642 294
PNGAA Perth lunch at RAAF Club, Bull Creek. Contact Linda Cavanaugh Manning – 08 94342628 or lindam121@bigpond.com
When: Friday 11 November 2016 – Novotel Wollongong Northbeach and Saturday 12 November 2016 – Dinner, Ocean Room, City Beach Function Centre, Wollongong RSVP: 30 August 2016 The total cost for the two weekend...
PNGAA Brisbane – It’s been too long! Come to lunch and say hello to our Brisbane members and meet the new editor for Una Voce. WHEN Sunday 16 October 11.30am WHERE Ship Inn (Beer...
