Mary Mennis As head of the Catholic Church worldwide, the Pope visited Papua New Guinea from 6 to 9 September as part of a four-nation Apostolic journey of South-East Asia and Oceania. The Pontiff’s...
Dr. Brent Glass, former Director of the National Museum of American History and senior advisor to the Smithsonian Institute, made a special visit to the Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority (TPA) in September...
The events are always happy gatherings so please come along and share some Christmas spirit! Friends welcome! Date: Saturday, 14 December 2024 Time: Noon for 12.30 pm Venue: Pavilion Hotel, 242 Northbourne Avenue, Canberra...
Art Leven | 17 Thurlow Street, Redfern Sydney Oceanic Art Fair – Sunday 27 October 2024, 9-4.30pm Entry: $5 per person and $2 per student payable at door – 27 October 2024 Gala Preview...
A school visit. by Sandy Miller It was an unexpected privilege to make a school visit during our trip to PNG in April 2024. Andrea Williams, assisted by Dame Sandra Lau, coordinated a visit...
These photographs were taken at the Sharing Histories event at the National Archives of Australia, 20 November 2010.
John F Bent Sixty years ago, I had the privilege of being employed by the Papua New Guinea Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries as an agricultural extension officer. To my local colleagues and...
Michael White I arrived in Rabaul on Christmas Eve 1967, a newly-minted adult at 21, to take up a position as Station Clerk, Rabaul Police Station. I had spent the previous two and a...
Ian Howie-Willis Part One of this three-part series described how the author and his three Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) companions lost their way in dense fog while crossing the broad plateau...
R Wally Johnson & Neville A Threlfall Return to Volcano Town—Reassessing the 1937–1943 Eruptions at Rabaul This is an expanded, more detailed version of the book published by the same authors in 1985—Volcano Town:...
Our plantation, ‘Sum Sum’, is situated on a lonely stretch of the south-east coast of New Britain. Our nearest neighbours live twenty miles in one direction and thirty miles in the other. Native tracks...
From 1925 to 1929, William McGregor, a Canadian farmer/rancher worked on the Gili Gili Plantation in the Milne Bay District as the Head Stockman for Lever Brothers. Accompanying him on this venture were his...
Jim Riley and I wandered about the New Guinea countryside and into the jungle at any opportunity, visiting villages, mission stations, gold sluicing operations, the old gold dredges and anything else that looked interesting....
My introduction to life as a lay-missionary teacher at Wirui Mission station, Wewak, on the North Coast of PNG, could not have been more unique. Dutifully, on the morning of 28 January 1959, I...
