PNG National Remembrance Day – 23 July
Today is National Remembrance Day in Papua New Guinea and a time to reflect on all those PNG citizens who lost their lives in the service of their country. July 23 is National Remembrance...
Category: Australia and PNG
How Prime Minister Bob Hawke Became a PNG Chief by Keith Jackson
In 1966 I was transferred from my remote bush school in the Highlands to Port Moresby to edit the school magazines. At this time the headquarters of government in Papua New Guinea was an...
2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours PNG
PNGAA congratulates the following recipients of Queens Birthday Honours in PNG recently: Dame Sandra Lau and Wayne Uechtritz. Dame Sandra Lau Order of the British Empire – DBE Sandra Geok Mei, Mrs LAU, MBE...
Minister for International Development and the Pacific
PNGAA congratulates The Hon Alex Hawke MP who has recently been appointed Minister for International Development and the Pacific. This role has been upgraded from the previous incumbent who held the position of Parliamentary...
2019 Upcoming PNGAA Events
A number of gatherings are planned for PNGAA members and their friends through 2019 – they’re always enjoyable days so please support your association and come along! We thank all our organisers. This list...
Electronic Tuberculosis (TB) patient management system
Australia is proudly supporting Dr Patrick Koliwan and David Valentine, founders of health-tech startup Refer Tech that have developed an electronic tuberculosis (TB) patient management system. The prototype is being piloted at the Kaugere...
International federation of basketball team visits PNG
The team from FIBA, the international federation of basketball, were in Port Moresby recently along with representatives from Basketball Federation of Papua New Guinea. Since last year #PNGAusPartnership supported the #Hoops4Health program in communities...
Tour de New Ireland Cycling event – Boluminski Highway
11 April 2019 marked the opening of upgrades to the Boluminski Highway in New Ireland – a project led by the Papua New Guinea Department of Works and funded by the PNG-AusPartnership. As part...
Rabaul & Montevideo Maru Memorial News, March 2019
Australian War Memorial Re-development The Australian War Memorial has developed a detailed proposal to the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia to fund a major redevelopment of the Memorial’s galleries and precinct, and create...
Butterfly Bows Quilt – a Silent Auction item at the Sydney Christmas Lunch 2 December 2018
YES! Early bids accepted! If you would like to bid in the lead up to the Christmas luncheon, please Email: events@pngaa.net PNGAA is delighted, and very appreciative, that the Canberra “Broomsticks & Bobbins’ Quilters’...
Speech by the Hon Bill Shorten MP on Labour’s Foreign Policy at the Lowy Institute on 29 October 2018
A speech at the Lowy Institute by the Hon Bill Shorten MP stated that: ‘The foreign policy of the next Labor Government will be different from those of the past – because the world...
Introducing … Gima Kilamanu-Naime at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, South Australia
The Papua New Guinea Association of Australia was asked by the prestigious Prince Alfred College in Adelaide to assist in facilitating two presentations on Papua New Guinea on 14 August 2018. The school wanted...
Sean Dorney in Manus – Foreign Correspondent, ABC TV, Tuesday 21 August 2018 at 8pm, AEST.
Join Sean Dorney on a special visit to Papua New Guinea – Foreign Correspondent, ABC TV, Tuesday night 21 August 2018 at 8pm AEST. Few correspondents have etched themselves more deeply into the life...
Helpim Wantok – UPNG receives furniture from Australia
By Roy Ranney Around the middle of 2017 the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) realised that they would have a quantity of furniture surplus to their requirement as a result of an upgrade in...
Breakfast by the Sea by Belinda Macartney
In May 2018 I was fortunate to go to Townsville to attend a fundraising breakfast for Youth With A Mission (YWAM). While I was pleased to see some faces and places I knew from...
