As its nearest neighbor, Australia’s task has been complex but tackled with positive determination and enthusiasm. Pre-independence PNG was developed by the Australian Administration, by private enterprise and by the missions. Australia also fought...
50th Anniversary of PNG Independence – 16 September 2025 On 16 September 1975, the nation of Papua New Guinea achieved its independence from Australia. The Papua New Guinea Association of Australia (PNGAA) looks forward...
2025—50th Anniversary of PNG Independence: How will Australia Acknowledge This? Not many Australians would have a good understanding of Australia’s history in PNG. This is because this history is not taught in schools. Many...
PNG’s National Rugby League Bid PNG is reportedly set to join the NRL as its 19th team in 2028, following a $600 million expansion deal backed by the Australian federal government. While not yet...
Memories of PNG A friend showed me the March 2023 edition of PNG Kundu, and I found it very interesting. Both my uncle, Bob Cole, and brother, Jim Sinclair, happened to be mentioned in...
Management Committee Update PNGAA 74th Annual General Meeting 2025 The 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia (PNGAA) require elections for the PNGAA Management Committee. Please see the notice to...
Daryl Binning OAM, ACS …. Missionaries to mud men, kudus to Kokoda, lap laps to lakatois—just some of the topics discussed by wantoks at the August luncheon meeting of the Western Australian branch of...
JOHN BARNES OAM In 1973, the South Pacific Brewery in Lae, where I was working at the time, set about hiring Jumbo, an Asian elephant from an Australian animal park and bringing it to...
S Warren Carey AO In September 1934, any thought of going to New Guinea had never entered my mind. I was well settled in my geological field work in the Werris Creek region and...
Martin Kerr—Ex-Kiap 1964 Can I offer some clarification about the Saruwageds, and who crossed them and when? The role of New Guinea’s generation of ‘Europeans’ should not be dismissed as pure and destructive colonialism...
Marilyn Havini AM I was virtually dragooned into forming the Hako Women’s Collective (HWC) in 2004. It occurred this way … on holidays in Bougainville for a Christmas break from teaching visual arts at...
ROBERT PARER Prue Clarke OAM, who passed in August 2022, wrote to me two years earlier about her parents, Agnes and Kendall ‘Ken’ Frank, and other interesting family members. Her mother, Agnes, worked at...
Ian Howie-Willis From the time I was five years old, I wanted to go to Papua New Guinea. That was in 1943, the year the Australian Army recaptured Lae, Salamaua and Finschhafen from the...
Chips Mackellar Ever seen that 1957 movie, Boy on a Dolphin, with Sophia Loren and Alan Ladd? The title song sung by Julie London stated: There’s a tale that they tell of a dolphin...
