PNGAA Canberra Dinner to celebrate PNG’s 50th Independence – 30 August 2025
The Papua New Guinea Association of Australia invites you to a Canberra Dinner to Celebrate 50 Years of Independence This is an opportunity to gather together...
Category: Australia and PNG
Planting Memories: A Settler’s Life on the Sogeri Plateau
Anthea Matley—part two Returning to Port Moresby in 2018 During dinner that evening in Port Moresby, the hotel manager, an Australian, approached us. Average height, with grey curly hair and wearing a grey uniform...
Australia Awards
Australia Awards Papua New Guinea (AAPNG) are designed to promote knowledge and leadership, and enduring ties between Australia and PNG. The scholarships aim to build a qualified workforce, fill critical human resource gaps, and...
Approaching 50 Years: the challenge of building a national identity in PNG
Theresa Meki Papua New Guinea will celebrate its 50th anniversary as an independent nation in September 2025. This momentous milestone will undoubtedly be marked by jubilant celebrations. However, it also prompts reflection on the...
His Excellency John Kali CMG OBE, PNG High Commissioner to Australia, to meet PNGAA members 27 April 2025
PNGAA is delighted that His Excellency John Kali CMG OBE, PNG High Commissioner to Australia, and his delightful wife, are visiting Sydney from Canberra for this year’s annual gathering for the association – the...
Prime Minister Marape’s New Year & Australia Day Messages
As Papua New Guinea approaches 2025, the year marking 50 years of independence, Prime Minister Hon. James Marape issued a heartfelt message to the nation, urging every citizen to unite and work together for...
Papua New Guinea’s Road to Independence
1883: HM Chester, Queensland Government Agent on Thursday Island, raised the Union Jack near present-day Port Moresby and annexed, on behalf of Queen Victoria, that part of New Guinea and adjacent islands lying between...
PAPUAN CITIZENSHIP
PAPUAN CITIZENSHIP by Laurie Le Fevre First published in Una Voce, Issue 1, March 2007 A question was raised in the last edition of Una Voce about Papuan citizenship before (or even post) independence...
Help wanted- did you work in one of PNG’s Government agencies?
Help wanted for compilation of book material – Grateful for copies of photographs and words on personal recollections of working in one of the Government agencies that have over the past few decades morphed...
PNGAA WA Lunch – February 2025
Date: 21 February 2024 Where: Air Force Memorial Estate, 2 Bull Creek Drive, BULL CREEK WA 6149 Time: 1130 – 1530 Our guests will be the Executive of the PNG Association of Western Australia...
Australia and Papua New Guinea – The significance of WWI and WWII
As its nearest neighbor, Australia’s task has been complex but tackled with positive determination and enthusiasm. Pre-independence PNG was developed by the Australian Administration, by private enterprise and by the missions. Australia also fought...
Nobodies to Somebodies: Experiences of PNG PALM Workers in Australia and NZ
Nobodies to Somebodies: Moukele Migrant Workers from NCD, PNG in New Zealand and Australia Date: Tuesday 28 Jan 2025 1pm – 2pm AEDT Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU, Coombs Building, Seminar Room F and...
Prime Minister Marape’s Australia Day message
Prime Minister James Marape today extended is warmest wishes to the government and people of Australia on Australia Day, January 26, 2025, reflecting on the enduring relationship between Papua New Guinea and its longstanding...
PNGAA Congratulates Year 11 Scholarship holders
The PNGAA is delighted to hear the results from the nine students it supported again last year. PNGAA congratulates all six students from Anguganak High School who have worked diligently and been accepted into...
Tabaran – City Recital Hall, Sydney – 24 January 2025
Rock into 2025 and this 50th anniversary of independence year with legends David Bridie and Not Drowning, Waving together with George Telek and PNG musicians in a music night of nights! Date: Friday 24...
