EVENTS ROUNDUP
PERTH—PNGAA WA Catch Up Friday, 3 May 2024 The PNGAA WA meets quarterly in Perth and sometimes members catch up outside of the larger group. There was a recent get-together at the RAAFA Club,...
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PNGAA REPORT
2024 PNGAA AGM The PNGAA Annual General Meeting and Lunch on Sunday, 5 May 2024, was a happy, friendly, successful day for PNGAA. The guest speaker was Joanne Sharpe, the Director for Justice and...
Australia Will Never Forget!
After spending two days walking the Kokoda Trail in often arduous terrain, the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, the Hon. James Marape, and the Australian Prime Minister, the Hon. Anthony Albanese, laid wreaths...
Professor Robin Cooke Awarded Member of the Order of Australia 2024
Congratulations go to PNGAA Member, Professor Robert (Robin) Cooke AM, OAM, OBE, who was recognised in the Australia Day 2024 Honours List, by being made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). Robin...
The Story of the Wartime Kokoda Trail: Sorting Fact from Fiction
Peter Jesser The battle for the Kokoda Trail occupies a significant place in Australian military history. Much of the fighting to stem the Japanese advance across the Owen Stanley Range was intense, close-quarter combat...
The Fish Trap Builders of Raluana Village
John F Bent Sixty years ago, I had the privilege of being employed by the Papua New Guinea Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries as an agricultural extension officer. To my local colleagues and...
The Kiap Memorial:or How We Got Promised One A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
Bill Sanders Between 1878 and 1977, 85 kiaps died in Papua, New Guinea, and the Territory of Papua New Guinea (TPNG). Variously, hostile inhabitants, disease, executions by the Japanese, volcanic eruptions, vehicle accidents, drowning,...
Panguna Mine—A House with a View
Simon Pentanu PANGUNA on Bougainville Island has many stories to tell. There is a helluva lot to see—enough beauty and destruction to boggle the mind whenever you visit up here. Once upon a time,...
Honouring Max
Part One Max Macgowan & John May, Rabaul, 1941 Tempe Macgowan (TM) & Marian May (MM) This article was co-written by Tempe Macgowan and Marian May, honouring the life of Max Macgowan, one of...
Part-Time Journalist in Rabaul
Michael White I arrived in Rabaul on Christmas Eve 1967, a newly-minted adult at 21, to take up a position as Station Clerk, Rabaul Police Station. I had spent the previous two and a...
Crossing the Saruwageds, Easter 1976 Part Two
Ian Howie-Willis Part One of this three-part series described how the author and his three Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) companions lost their way in dense fog while crossing the broad plateau...
Muriel Larner MBE—a Mother’s Legacy
Rosalie Everest Rosalie Everest plans to return to the Eastern Highlands of PNG in June 2024 with her mother’s ashes. This is Part 1 of a two-part story. Before my mother, Muriel Larner, née...
Department of Agriculture, Stock & Fisheries, Taliligap, Rabaul Part One
THE GATEWAY FOR NEW RURAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS (Didiman) TO THE PNG ISLANDS: Personal Experiences in 1967 By Peter Stace & JW (Bill) Gornall In October 2023, I received the following email from an old...
The Road to Officialdom – Hell and Back THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY CITIZENSHIP DEBATE
By Patricia Chow This article is a very brief overview of how Australian citizenship came about in our PNGCCAA community. There are some people who may still have memories of these times, and one...
