The PNGAA has truly been blessed to have Sara Turner as Events Coordinator since 2016. Not only Sara but Roger Carroll has always been there too, along with Jane and Lisa – and Ruby...
By APR editor – April 3, 2021 COMMENT: By Jackson Kiakari in Port Moresby I am from the Papua New Guinea generation that was born in the 1980s, raised in the 1990s but neglected,...
PNGAA member, Donald Denoon, advises that the Pyrmont History Group in Sydney is hosting two talks involving Papua New Guinea on Sunday afternoons in June and July 2021. • Sunday 20 June – Patrols...
Cheryl Marvell said that it was an honour to represent the PNGAA at the Kokoda Memorial Walkway Anzac Service today, 24 April 2021. The Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway is a principal site of commemoration...
Andrew Peacock AC GCL, former Australian Liberal minister, has passed away on 16 April 2021 aged 82 years. He played an instrumental role in ushering PNG towards independence in 1975. After being recognised for...
Another fabulous PNGAA event at Hornsby RSL on 21 March 2021 with thanks to Sara Turner. Speakers and topics were: Jan Anthony – ‘The Way It Was’ Dr Jennifer Gagau – ‘Life of a...
Few Australians know this story – but all should. Seventy-seven years ago today 1053 civilians and Australian troops were about to begin their last tragic journey from Rabaul, the capital of Australian-mandated New Guinea....
Lady Roselyn Morauta announced yesterday that the Member for Port Moresby North-West and former Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Mekere Morauta has died. Sir Mekere was born in 1946, in Kukipi Village, Malalaua...
Murray Day lived in PNG from 1970 to 1983. He joined the Department of Forestry in 1970 as a senior draftsman at Konedobu (Port Moresby). After six months he was transferred to the Forestry...
Featuring articles and news reports about contemporary Papua New Guinea—also included are the nation’s sporting achievements and events, and stories about young people doing interesting things— we encourage young people to become involved in...
When the founders of Niugini Arabica Coffee worked in Papua New Guinea, they fell in love with the coffee…and we all know that the fertile highlands are home to the best coffee in the...
75th anniversary service at the Australian War Memorial today. This service commemorated the signing of the Instrument of Surrender on HMS Glory near Rabaul on 6 September 1945. On that day General Hitoshi Imamura,...
FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, on 16 September 1975, the nation of Papua New Guinea achieved its independence from Australia and we, the members of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia, are proud of our...
The exotic and fascinating country — and Australia’s colonial past there — is out of sight and out of mind to most Australians. We should turn that around. Australia never spent a great deal...
‘ PNG Kundu’ readers may remember seeing on the news in October last year graphic pictures of unrest in the now Indonesian controlled province of West Papua. Rampaging groups of Papuans with troops firing...
