Tales of PNG Speakers Event – 21 March 2021
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...
Category: Australia and PNG
Montevideo Maru – Australia’s Greatest Maritime Disaster
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....
Vale – Sir Mekere Morauta, KCMG (12 June 1946 -19 December 2020)
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...
Vale Murray Day – 6 December 2020
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...
PNG in the News
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...
Niugini Arabica Coffee to buy!
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 since Pacific War ended in Rabaul
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,...
PNG Celebrates 45 Years of Independence
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...
Australia’s Ignorance About Papua New Guinea is a Loss for Both Nations – Sept 2020 Kundu
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...
The Free West Papua Movement – PNG Kundu June 2020
‘ 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...
69th PNGAA Annual General Meeting Postponed
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...
The Royal Australian Navy: the Silent Service in PNG (Part One)
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...
From Little things, Bigger Things Grow
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...
PNG Kundu: our drumbeat, our stories, our voices
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...
A WARTIME AVIATION TRAGEDY: Mount Carstensz
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...
