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...
THE 69th Annual General Meeting of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Inc, scheduled to be held in Sydney on Sunday, 3 May 2020, has been postponed until further notice. This is in...
BACK IN 2015 I sent a letter to Una Voce lamenting the fact that the otherwise excellent two-volume set of Papua New Guinea’s Pictorial History, compiled by Dianne McInnes (Pictorial Press Australia, 2015) had...
Pre-Loved Children’s Books for PNG Village Schools In December 2018 we hosted two University students from the PNG Highlands here in Benalla in North East Victoria. These were Gita Korimbo from EHP, and Vivian...
Kundu’ (drum in Tok Pisin) is derived from the Kuanua word for the New Guinea rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus) from which most drums are carved and shaped. Kuanua is the language of the Tolai people...
If you fly in the Papua New Guinea Highlands on a cloudless day you may see a sight seldom encountered elsewhere in the world: the wrecks of aircraft still lying where they abruptly collided...
The Bragge Collection, gifted to James Cook University by Laurie Bragge, features two intimately connected components – more than 600 material culture artifacts collected by Mr Bragge during the time he lived and worked...
P O S T P O N E D In the interests of the health of possible attendees and the community at large, the Committee has decided to postpone PNGAA Events for the moment....
It’s a privilege to be part of this association, part of this executive team (committee and sub-committees)—and to be entrusted with this role. I’m in awe of the personal blood, sweat and tears that...
THE PNGAA fills an important role for Australians and Papua New Guineans, whose life has been significantly touched by PNG. Our network of volunteers and the social support it offers are unique and, at...
