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Buy a PNGAA Tote Bag
Great for your plastic bag-free shopping and for carrying everyday items! High quality environmentally friendly large laminated jute shopping bag in natural colour, with padded cotton handles and strong, seamed edges. Prices $15.00 ...
Purchase “Cloudlands Memoirs” by Laurie Le Fevre
The author uses individual life stories to show how remarkably successful Papua New Guineans have been in various fields and by giving readers a thoughtful overview of some of the big issues facing the...
PNGAA Brisbane Lunch
In less than two weeks time on Sunday 26 July those joining us for lunch at The Ship Inn will now be sitting down to an enjoyable meal and the pleasant company of...
DVD: 70th Anniversary Commemorative Events of the Rabaul and Montevideo Maru Tragedy
This DVD covers the 70th Anniversary dedication of the Rabaul and Montevideo Maru Memorial on the 1st of July 2012 at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, and the accompanying luncheon on 30 June 2012....
The Free West Papua Movement
‘ PNG Kundu’ readers may remember seeing on the news in October last year graphic pictures of unrest in the now Indonesian controlled province of West Papua. Rampaging groups of Papuans with troops firing...
LETTERS & ENQUIRIES
Administration Records Recently some colleagues and I, who were veterinary officers in the then Territory of Papua & New Guinea (TP&NG), prepared a paper on the Territory’s veterinary service between the end of World...
PNG IN THE NEWS
Featuring articles and news reports about contemporary Papua New Guinea—also included are the nation’s sporting achievements and events, and stories about young people doing interesting things— we encourage young people to become involved in...
ART & BOOK REVIEWS
Featuring new books about Papua New Guinea and reviews, art and craft exhibitions, interviews of interest to members and information for authors, artists and craftspeople—please send your articles and photos to editor@pngaa.net Playing Their...
Bert Kienzle: The Architect of Kokoda
Captain Herbert Thomson ‘Bert’ Kienzle was born in Fiji in 1905 of Samoan, English, German descent. In WWI he and his family were all imprisoned in internment camps at Bourke and Molonglo because of...
Robinson Sakiki, MM
Increased social media during the lockdown Anzac Day period prompted the emergence of extraordinary ‘lost’ history of Papua New Guineans who fought bravely alongside Australians and Americans in WWII. One captivating post by Kokoda...
Vale – Kundu June 2020
The recent history of Papua New Guinea is intimately bound up with the people who made PNG their home and, in many cases, their life’s work—it is therefore fitting, but also with deep regret,...
MEMORIAL NEWS
The Rabaul & Montevideo Maru Society was established in 2009 and integrated into the PNGAA in 2013. The society encourages students and adults to explore the significance of WWII in the Papua New Guinea...
The Swamp Ghost
The Swamp Ghost was the nickname given to a WWII B17E bomber wreck that was located inland of Dyke Ackland Bay, in the Agaiembo swamp, in today’s Oro Province of PNG. The wreck rested...
The Yonki Dam Project – Education on the Dangers of Deep Water
In Don Wotton’s role as environmental planner for Elcom (PNG Power) during the construction phase of the Yonki Dam project from 1990–1996, he engaged local PNG artists to produce brochures to educate villagers as...
