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2014 ANZAC Centenary Commemorative DinnerWednesday 17 September 2014Stranger’s Dining Room, NSW Parliament House, Sydney Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, and friends: Good evening and a very special welcome to: The Hon. Julie Bishop, Minister...

It was my first flight ever. In Sydney, just before midnight on 5 December 1966, a TAA Electra lumbered into the air, turned north and flew all night, with a brief stop at Brisbane,...

Telemala is in West New Britain. The Rev. AE Brawn was the father of Eda Oakes. We left Malalia (near Cape Hoskins) on 20 December for Walo—a five hour boat trip—and met the carriers...

On the night leading into Papua New Guinea’s Independence Day, I went to a house on Touaguba Hill to drink SP and watch the flares being fired into the sky over Port Moresby’s Fairfax...

As soon as a girl or boy came into my office and sat down, I would say immediately, either: You will be going on to Year 9 or: You will be a school leaver....

One day, as I was preparing my blackboard towards the end of lunch recess at Nanu River school, some kids came to announce that one of their number had collapsed on the playground.  However,...

Address by the Hon. Julie Bishop, MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, officially representing the Hon. Tony Abbott, MP, Prime Minister of Australia, at the PNGAA Symposium Dinner...

This is the text of an address given by Dame Carol Kidu, DBE, at the PNGAA 2012 Christmas Lunch.  I acknowledge the traditional elders, past and present, of the land on which we are...

(Published in Una Voce, September 1998, page 18) Adrian Geyle was CPO for two years at Lake Murray, Kiunga, Gaima and Daru, Western District; PO OIC Green River, Sepik District; PO H/Q, Madang District....