My PNG Journey
Liz MacKinlay, CEO of Australian Business Volunteers My journey with Papua New Guinea is deeply intertwined with my family’s history and my own love for the country. My family has a long connection to...
Liz MacKinlay, CEO of Australian Business Volunteers My journey with Papua New Guinea is deeply intertwined with my family’s history and my own love for the country. My family has a long connection to...
Simon Pentanu I took this shot from a moving vehicle on a visit to Panguna on 15 January 2016. The photo isn’t great resolution-wise, but please read on. As our vehicle descended toward the...
By Ekke Beinssen Parts One and Two of this article were published in previous editions of PNG Kundu. They were taken from an account written by Ekke Beinssen of a 1929 exploratory expedition to...
Ian Howie-Willis Part Two of this three-part series described how the author and his three Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) companions tried to find their way down the northern side of the...
Ken Cheung OAM In the early 1980s, many former residents of Papua New Guinea living in Brisbane would often meet at Kingston Sports Centre for an informal get-together. The young people would play squash...
Part Two: Max Macgowan & John May, Rabaul, 1941 By Tempe Macgowan (TM) & Marian May (MM) This article continues from Part One of the PNG Kundu June 2024 issue. It was co-written by...
Wendy Stein OAM, PP, PHF—Project Manager Wendy Stein OAM became a Rotarian in 2005 and has for more than 20 years dedicated her life to mothers and children in need of medical assistance in...
Matilda Rondy Hamago: Senior Socio-Economist making inroads with coffee farmers Coffee is an important cash crop in Papua New Guinea (PNG), but the industry is male-dominated, and women working in the sector face many...
DAVID HOWELL As a life member of the 39th Battalion Association, I was proud to have been selected to lead both Prime Ministers of Papua New Guinea and Australia from Kokoda up to Isurava,...
CHRISTINE LEONARD This article is based on compiled reports prepared by Sr John Mary, secretary to Bishop Arnold Orowae, and Project Manageress of the Catholic Diocese Wabag, Enga Province. The situation is chaotic and,...
By Roy Ranney Around the middle of 2017 the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) realised that they would have a quantity of furniture surplus to their requirement as a result of an upgrade in...
By: Steven Gagau, PNGAA committee member and President Sydney Wantok Association “Helpim Wantok” is a project undertaken by the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia (PNGAA) and Sydney Wantok Association (SydWan), the Sydney based...
On Saturday 27 July former kiaps, friends and family gathered at Yorkeys Knob Boating Club in Cairns. About 45 people attended, with many coming from far away places – Steven (1980) and Delilah Peters...
ASHTON | HOOK | MCDONALD | OAKES | CAHILL | QUINLIVAN ASHTON, Jeremy Claude 24 November 2022 Jeremy Ashton, born in July 1930, was educated at Winchester School and graduated MA at...
Part 1 of 2 in Una Voce June 2014 Here is the story of one man’s war. It is a microcosm of the overall conflagration, the story of a small party of stragglers’...