Vale Pope Francis: The Bishop of Rome
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...
Category: Cultural insights
A Dragon Nightmare
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...
Omie: The Other Oro Tapa
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...
Producing Copra on New Ireland
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...
Sel Kambang and Andapen
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...
Papua New Guinea’s Peter To Rot to be canonised as first Melanesian saint
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...
Who Started Tok Pisin?
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...
Snapshot of Tufi, Oro Province
Sandy Miller Rod and I were going to be visiting PNG in April 2024, attending the ANZAC Day Dawn Service and Montevideo Maru Memorial Service in Rabaul. After a lot of thinking and internet...
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...
From Cannibalism to Crocodiles
Daryl Binning OAM, ACS …. Missionaries to mud men, kudus to Kokoda, lap laps to lakatois—just some of the topics discussed by wantoks at the August luncheon meeting of the Western Australian branch of...
Jumbo on Parade
JOHN BARNES OAM In 1973, the South Pacific Brewery in Lae, where I was working at the time, set about hiring Jumbo, an Asian elephant from an Australian animal park and bringing it to...
Hako Women’s Collective Association Inc. Celebrating 20 Years
Marilyn Havini AM I was virtually dragooned into forming the Hako Women’s Collective (HWC) in 2004. It occurred this way … on holidays in Bougainville for a Christmas break from teaching visual arts at...
Of Dolphins and Men (and women and children)
Chips Mackellar Ever seen that 1957 movie, Boy on a Dolphin, with Sophia Loren and Alan Ladd? The title song sung by Julie London stated: There’s a tale that they tell of a dolphin...
The NGVR & PNGVR Association (PNGVR) Military Museum
Phil Ainsworth The New Guinea Volunteer Rifles (NGVR) and the Papua New Guinea Volunteer Rifles Association (PNGVR) Military Museum was established in 2005 within the Wacol Military Heritage Precinct as a lasting tribute to...
Papua New Guinea & Rugby League
Patrick Bourke It has been said that there are two religions in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Christianity and rugby league. Both have been introduced into PNG and have been taken up enthusiastically. PNG is...
