Exploring New Guinea in the 1930s
S Warren Carey AO In September 1934, any thought of going to New Guinea had never entered my mind. I was well settled in my geological field work in the Werris Creek region and...
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The Saruwageds Revisited
Martin Kerr—Ex-Kiap 1964 Can I offer some clarification about the Saruwageds, and who crossed them and when? The role of New Guinea’s generation of ‘Europeans’ should not be dismissed as pure and destructive colonialism...
Hako Women’s Collective Association Inc. Celebrating 20 Years
Marilyn Havini AM I was virtually dragooned into forming the Hako Women’s Collective (HWC) in 2004. It occurred this way … on holidays in Bougainville for a Christmas break from teaching visual arts at...
Remembering Prue Clarke OAM
ROBERT PARER Prue Clarke OAM, who passed in August 2022, wrote to me two years earlier about her parents, Agnes and Kendall ‘Ken’ Frank, and other interesting family members. Her mother, Agnes, worked at...
Our Time in PNG: and How I Became a Historian There
Ian Howie-Willis From the time I was five years old, I wanted to go to Papua New Guinea. That was in 1943, the year the Australian Army recaptured Lae, Salamaua and Finschhafen from the...
Of Dolphins and Men (and women and children)
Chips Mackellar Ever seen that 1957 movie, Boy on a Dolphin, with Sophia Loren and Alan Ladd? The title song sung by Julie London stated: There’s a tale that they tell of a dolphin...
Planting Memories:A Settler’s Life on the Sogeri Plateau
Anthea Matley At the beginning of September 2018, long after my parents had passed away, I said to my husband, Peter: ‘I want to go back to New Guinea. Do you think we can...
The Story of the Wartime Kokoda Trail: Sorting Fact from Fiction
Part Two: Peter Jesser This article continues from the excerpt published in PNG Kundu, June 2024. The Way North from Port Moresby One of the reasons that there had never been a track across...
The NGVR & PNGVR Association (PNGVR) Military Museum
Phil Ainsworth The New Guinea Volunteer Rifles (NGVR) and the Papua New Guinea Volunteer Rifles Association (PNGVR) Military Museum was established in 2005 within the Wacol Military Heritage Precinct as a lasting tribute to...
The Strange World of Lae, New Guinea in 1962
Ann Mallard I went to Lae to get married. My new husband, Ken Mallard, was an Australian I met on a ship returning from my first trip abroad. Neither of us had families who...
Taking Muriel Home—a Mother’s Legacy
Part Two: Rosalie Everest During my recent pilgrimage returning the ashes of my mother, Muriel Larner MBE, back to the Eastern Highlands of PNG, the most poignant moment took place around 3 am on...
Memories of the Ok Tedi Fly River Development Trust
Nigel Robin Ette At the time of independence for Papua New Guinea, Western Province was undeveloped. It was the furthest province to the west, where high mountains take the Fly River to the sea...
Department of Agriculture, Stock & Fisheries, Taliligap, Rabaul
Part Two: Peter Stace & JW (Bill) Gornall The Gateway for New Rural Development Officers (didiman) to the PNG islands: Personal Experiences in 1967 Part One of this article focussed on the history of...
Businesses for Health and the TB Crisis in Papua New Guinea
Dr Ann M Clarke Executive Director, Businesses for Health: Tuberculosis & HIV In the vibrant yet challenging landscapes of Papua New Guinea a health crisis persists, yet it is one that harks back to...
Papua New Guinea & Rugby League
Patrick Bourke It has been said that there are two religions in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Christianity and rugby league. Both have been introduced into PNG and have been taken up enthusiastically. PNG is...
