A Special Event for PNGAA Members – 27 September 2023, 10.30am The Bilas Exhibition at the Australian Museum in Sydney has had jaw dropping spectacular comments and some people have visited it more than...
When the Garamuts Beat Fr Franz Miltrup SM Father Miltrup SM, who died in 1989, was a German national and a Marist priest who lived in Bougainville from early 1938 to 1986, mostly in...
Part 1 can be found HERE Physically the environment of the Western District was always testing, but ignorance was anything but bliss. The following incident gives a flavour. The engine stopped. Soon the forward...
Peter Comerford, The Maliau Caves Adventure This is a book for 11–14-year-olds, set in Papua New Guinea and is an exciting adventure set in some caves in New Ireland. The caves are an underground...
Apisai Enos & Steven Gagau This article was prompted by Phil Fitzpatrick’s series on ‘Literature in Papua New Guinea’ in PNG Kundu, and our involvement recently in preparing a paper on aspects of traditional...
Ross Clifton In the early 1950s Dad organised a 2-storey home to be built on a multi-terraced hillside block of land in Port Moresby. The large front balcony offered extensive views overlooking Ela Beach—the...
Jane Brumley Our family has had a very adventurous life. From my parents, especially Mum, down to us. Our parents were quite happy for us, their kids, to run amok and ultimately learn from...
Further Recollections of a Plantation Manager Ian Smith Being sent by WR Carpenter, the company I worked for, as a relieving manager to any one of their 30 copra and cocoa plantations one could...
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...
Cultural insights / Exhibits / FEATURED
The Bilas Exhibition – Australian Museum, 27 September 2023
August 30, 2023
