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The 50 Years of Independence Community Day in Canberra is a collaboration between the National Archives of Australia, the National Gallery of Australia and the National Library. Start your day at National Archives of...
A new Australian expedition company is set to offer an alternative approach to exploring Papua New Guinea, with plans to launch five expeditions across three distinct routes beginning in late 2025. Pearl Expeditions operates...
From the President Honouring the voices that carry our history, our culture, our spirit, and inspire us to reach further, is a theme reflected in celebrations acknowledging Papua New Guinea’s 50th Anniversary of Independence...
Bilong Papua New Guinea: 50 years of Independence is an exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, opening 12 September 2025. The exhibition brings together a selection of the Gallery’s remarkable collection of...
I was born a kanaka at Kondo village in Kandep, Enga Province, sometime in the mid-1950s. As a small boy, when I played with other children, there was no road in my village. We...
We were born in the late 1960s—into a world still under the shadow of colonialism, but stirring with the promise of freedom. The Queen was on our coins. English had just arrived in our...
Australia’s national day was on 26 January. It’s a day where we take the opportunity to understand where we’ve been so that we can shape where we want to go. On Australia Day, we...
SPECIAL OFFER FOR PNGAA MEMBERS – 20% Discount PNGAA thanks Melbourne Books who has kindly offered a discount especially for PNGAA members Living Art: Papua New Guinea By Susan Cochrane Please use this link:...
Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 17 December 1936, Pope Francis was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2013. Inspired to join the...
Chris Warrillow It was on an Air Niugini flight in 1981 when I recalled events of more than 20 years before. I was reading the inflight magazine Paradise (No. 30, July 1981), and an...
Joan Winter, International Partner Omie Tapa Art PNG The moment I stepped off the plane at Jacksons Airport in 1972 I fell in love with Papua New Guinea. I collected my first Oro tapa...
Ian Smith This story follows an earlier article of Ian’s, published in 2022, about Patlangat Plantation in New Ireland. Working with Papua New Guinea Highlanders on a remote coastal copra plantation in the early...
Part TWO • BAKA BINA This story picks up from Part One in the March issue where Baka wrote about when he was in Grade 4 and the school children were being taught a...
Pope Francis has passed a decree on 1 April 2025 which enables Papua New Guinea to get its first saint. The late Peter To Rot from East New Britain is to be canonised, making...
Professor Craig Alan Volker In this monthly discussion we will answer one question about language in PNG and beyond. This month we are looking at how Tok Pisin started, just who started it, and...
