Coffee & Women in PNG
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...
Author: Roy
Prime Ministers on the Kokoda Track
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,...
Report on the May 2024 Landslide in Enga Province
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,...
Helpim Wantok – UPNG receives furniture from Australia
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...
Helpim Wantok Project – UPDATE
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...
Cairns function in July 2024
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...
Vales & Tributes March 2023
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...
WHEN HOME WAS A TRIP THROUGH HELL By Robert Coleman
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’...
Brian Costello and Something about Low Flying
I was saddened to read in Una Voce of the passing of Brian Costello, an old colleague from my days as editor of the Times Courier in Lae in the mid-1960s. A genuine, generous...
Graham Syphers 1 of 3
Hello there, Papua New Guinea was a very different place before Independence. A fascinating place filled with unbelievable characters and real achievers. It had a unique history from the days when the British ran...
Gift Subscription to the PNGAA
Are you enjoying your subscription to the PNGAA? Do you know someone who might enjoy a subscription to the PNGAA? If so, the process for making such a “gift” to that person can be...
Sharing Histories: Kiap Tribute Event
These photographs were taken at the Sharing Histories event at the National Archives of Australia, 20 November 2010.
My Expatriate life – part two – Daru
The company sent pilots around to different places at whim, probably because most were single and that was the kind of job it was anyway. We had been in Lae for only short time...
My Expatriate Life – Part 1
This is the first part of Diane Bayne’s account of her life as an expatriate. It covers her time in Port Moresby and Lae. When visiting Bangkok, I’ve wondered what it would be like...
My Expatriate life – By Diane Bayne
This is Part 3 of the Story – Kabwum We were barely settled in Lae again when we were transferred to Kabwum in the Morobe Province in May 1976. It was an outpost they...
