PNGAA Projects
The PNGAA will undertake projects from time to time in accordance with the PNGAA rules and objectives. Below is a listing of those projects together to links for a more comprehensive description of the...
The PNGAA will undertake projects from time to time in accordance with the PNGAA rules and objectives. Below is a listing of those projects together to links for a more comprehensive description of the...
PNGAA Scholarship Scheme Earlier this year the PNGAA Management Committee decided to commence a scholarship scheme for needy students in remote parts of PNG. To help ensure the integrity of the scheme and to...
During my service in Papua New Guinea there were only two occasions that I accompanied a senior officer on what could be termed a patrol. A period of two days was involved on both...
Silentworld Foundation Commemorative Dinner with the Australian Prime Minister A commemorative dinner was held on Monday 27 November 2023 in the Aircraft Hall at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to honour all those...
REGAN | WEBER | YOUNG NELSON, Kieran 7 February 2024 We are sad to advise that Kieran passed away at Greenslopes Hospital in Brisbane on 7 February 2024. He was a wonderful wantok/friend to many...
Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport Papua New Guinea’s second international airport was opened on 2 October 2023 by Prime Minister James Marape. The redevelopment of Nadzab began in November 2019 with the assistance of a...
R Wally Johnson & Neville A Threlfall Return to Volcano Town—Reassessing the 1937–1943 Eruptions at Rabaul This is an expanded, more detailed version of the book published by the same authors in 1985—Volcano Town:...
PNG’s Constitution Belated congratulations on the article about the PNG Constitution by Judge Kerr in your September 2023 edition. From his tenure as Law Faculty Dean at UPNG up to his current ADF review,...
Sydney – PNGAA Christmas Lunch A small but joyful group of members attended the Sydney Christmas function on 2 December 2023 at the Waterview function centre at Bicentennial Park. Being a very casual affair...
Management Committee Update 2024 began at pace for the PNGAA Management Committee which had its inaugural meeting on 10 January with members hooked in from Queensland, NSW, Victoria and Western Australia! The following week...
Under a domed night sky reminding us of early celestial navigators … Flying from a warm Australian spring to Oslo, Norway, just below the Arctic Circle, in late October 2023 meant that the Silentworld...
Ken Granger, in his three-part account of the above, described some of the trials and tribulations of providing logistic- and transport-support for a group of scientists and other professionals who spent time in remote...
Our plantation, ‘Sum Sum’, is situated on a lonely stretch of the south-east coast of New Britain. Our nearest neighbours live twenty miles in one direction and thirty miles in the other. Native tracks...
From 1925 to 1929, William McGregor, a Canadian farmer/rancher worked on the Gili Gili Plantation in the Milne Bay District as the Head Stockman for Lever Brothers. Accompanying him on this venture were his...
In late 1971 there was a notice in the Australian press advertising positions available as Assistant Patrol Officers in Papua New Guinea. I applied, and in my interview in Melbourne, I was told that...