Book Reviews – March Kundu 2020
Books Reviewed: Small steps along the Way – by Paul Oates A Short History of the Pacific Islands Monthly Magazine – by Bob Lawrence Up the Creek – by James Sinclair Right Man, Right Place, Worst...
Category: Books and Art Reviews
Book: Small Steps Along the Way by Paul Oates
Small Steps Along the Way by Paul Oates, independently published, 2019, 241 pages, ISBN: 9781707077939, available from Amazon.com, $AU22.03, including postage Phil Fitzpatrick recently had the pleasure of editing a new book by Paul...
Books and Reviews
GREG GROWDEN The Wallabies at War Aussie heroes have proved themselves on the battlefield as well as on the sporting field. Members of the Wallabies, the national rugby union team, have fought in virtually...
The Wallabies at War and the Hellships by Patrick Bourke
In the book, The Wallabies at War, written by Greg Growden, it is stated that ten Wallabies were killed during World War I and nine died in World War II. MANY STATE RUGBY UNION...
The Bougainville Referendum: Law, Administration and Politics
With the Bougainville referendum on independence due to take place on 23 November 2019, the Australian National University Department of Pacific Affairs has published a new book by Anthony J Regan entitled The Bougainville...
New book: “A Short history of the Pacific Islands Monthly Magazine”
The Pacific Islands Monthly Magazine (PIM) was a brave publication started in The Great Depression that over the following 70 years became the ‘Pacific Bible’. Now Bob Lawrence, an ABC News Journalist who was...
Bob Gotts’ Butterfly Collection – 25 November 2019, Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra
The colourful butterflies of PNG add to this extraordinary country’s beauty and colour. This is a rare opportunity to see Bob Gotts’ amazing collection! Bob Gotts went to PNG to teach and spent 60...
Observations on Mining Capitalism in Papua New Guinea by Martin Kerr
Stuart Kirsch’s book, Mining Capitalism: The Relationship Between Corporations and Their Critics, broke into a memory bank of experiences with a powerful message. Observe and take notes, whether photographically, through reports and correspondence, or...
Art and Books
Nora Heysen, Official War Artist in PNG A recent exhibition was held of the works of Hans and Nora Heysen at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) at Federation Square in Melbourne. Nora Heysen...
Book Reviews
DENIS LONGHURST: Plantation Papua; PHILLIP BRADLEY: D-Day New Guinea DENIS LONGHURST Plantation Papua We rescued them from what we deemed to be a primitive and dysfunctional existence, gave them a system of our own predilection,...
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...
Books and Reviews
RB SHAW: The Cross of Goa BEN PARER: The Parer Tales RB SHAW The Cross of Goa Bob Shaw is an accomplished adventure storyteller. He does this through the prism of a Port Moresby-based...
Memories by Mark Lynch
In August 1959, having just turned eighteen, Mark Lynch was at the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA) in Sydney, undergoing an intense course about a complex and fascinating place, tackling subjects from land...
The National Anthem of Papua New Guinea
The following was prepared for the 30th Anniversary of PNG Independence booklet produced by the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Inc – with special thanks to Ross Johnson. THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF PAPUA...
Captain Jack Radley And The Heyday Of The Fleet. The Story Of The Adventist Mission Boats In The South Seas.
My cousin, Rose-Marie Radley, has written this book about her father and his vital connection with the Seventh-Day Adventist Mission boats. Submitted by Warren Martin The book is soft cover and 402 pages. Available...
