PNGAA AGM Nominations due 5pm 31 January 2023!!! Please consider nominating and send your signed forms in now. Information and nomination forms are available to members at: https://pngaa.org/documents-relating-to-the-2023-agm/ Either scan or photograph them and email...
Memorial News Are You Interested in a Trip to Rabaul? A number of people have expressed an interest in returning to Rabaul with a group of interested travellers. The week around Anzac Day 2023...
PNGAA members Suellen Holland, Karo Haltmeier, Kylie Adams-Collier and Sara Turner created a wonderful event at the Royal Motor Yacht Club, Toronto, NSW, on Wednesday 5 October 2022 to support and help raise funds...
An artist, whose making of bark cloth (nioge) and exhibition of examples of it at the Royal Academy of Art in London were described in the September 2022 issue of PNG Kundu, is now...
Professor Volker is a linguist living in New Ireland, and an Adjunct Professor in The Cairns Institute, James Cook University in Australia. He welcomes your language questions for his monthly discussions at http://craig.volker@jcu.edu.au. For...
In January 1972, I undertook a brief patrol of the Nodabu region of the Aiome Patrol Post administrative area, which includes villages along the banks of the Ramu River. As this was to be...
Isolated and remote locations like the New Guinea Islands seemed to attract colourful and interesting people in the 1960s. Some of these characters were involved in the management of copra and cocoa plantations. Many...
She married a Highlander, was humiliated by her husband and family but bore the pain and raised her kids alone as her husband remarried other wives. She sent her kids to school and, finally,...
Caloundra Regional Gallery invites you to attend the launch of: Sihot’e Nioge: When Skirts Become Artworks Omie Tapa (beaten barkcloth) artists; Oro Province, Papua New Guinea Thursday 20 October 6.00 to 8.00pm Caloundra Regional...
When: 29 September 2022 Where: City Recital Hall, 2 Angel Place, Sydney 7.30pm: Jerome Blazê 8:15pm: Beckah Amani 9:20pm: Ngaiire 5 years in the making, Ngaiire is taking her third album around Australia and...
Paradise Palette: PNG Contemporary Art exhibition will be on show at the RQAS Petrie Terrace Gallery, 3/162 Petrie Terrace, Brisbane from 7 – 25 September 2022. Curated by Don Wotton, Paradise Palette showcases the...
A Constant Forester Paul Ryan This is the story of Paul Ryan’s forestry career, but it’s not just about trees. It also relates to his growing involvement with the people who, living in or...
Kalolaine Kalu Imagine being able to pay your parking fine with a string of shells. In Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province, you can do precisely that! The pearl oyster, the cowrie and...
Editing Papua New Guinean writers can be complex because it deals with writers whose first language is usually not English. Editing often fractured English has all the pitfalls of straight translation. The danger is...
Kevin Deutrom When the War Came to Our Ples: Some stories from the Momase Region of PNG When war zones are on the lands of indigenous subsistence farmers, the impact on the inhabitants is...
