(Published Una Voce, September 1997, Page 27) Jim Toner: Chief Clerk, District Office, Mendi 1957-59; District Office, Rabaul 1960-64; Field Manager, New Guinea Research Unit (ANU), Port Moresby 1965-73 Few readers will be unaware...
One of the world’s most popular collectables is postage stamps. There are, however, many more serious collectors who branch out into other aspects of philately, air mail covers, first day covers, various post office...
On the night leading into Papua New Guinea’s Independence Day, I went to a house on Touaguba Hill to drink SP and watch the flares being fired into the sky over Port Moresby’s Fairfax...
One day, as I was preparing my blackboard towards the end of lunch recess at Nanu River school, some kids came to announce that one of their number had collapsed on the playground. However,...
Address by the Hon. Julie Bishop, MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, officially representing the Hon. Tony Abbott, MP, Prime Minister of Australia, at the PNGAA Symposium Dinner...
This is the text of an address given by Dame Carol Kidu, DBE, at the PNGAA 2012 Christmas Lunch. I acknowledge the traditional elders, past and present, of the land on which we are...
(Published in Una Voce, September 1998, page 18) Adrian Geyle was CPO for two years at Lake Murray, Kiunga, Gaima and Daru, Western District; PO OIC Green River, Sepik District; PO H/Q, Madang District....
(Published in Una Voce, March 1998, p. 7, and in Tales of Papua New Guinea, p. 131) Malcolm (Chips) MacKellar 1953-1955 CPO Daru and Lake Murray (Western District) 1955-1956 P.O. Mount Hagen (Western Highlands...
(Published in Una Voce, June 1998, page 16) Adrian Geyle was CPO for two years at Lake Murray, Kiunga, Gaima and Daru, Western District; PO OIC Green River, Sepik District; PO H/Q, Madang District....
As soon as a girl or boy came into my office and sat down, I would say immediately, either: You will be going on to Year 9 or: You will be a school leaver....
Fear Drive My Feet by Peter Ryan A Game to be Played: The Great War and Australian Football in Sydney by Ian Blackley and Lesley Bryden A History of Contact and Change in the...
A Kiap’s Story: A decade in the life and work of an Australian Patrol Officer in the Kokoda, Madang, New Britain, New Ireland and Sepik Regions of Papua New Guinea 1948-1958 by Graham Taylor...
At the West End: Temlett Conibeer in West Papua by A.C.T. Marke Australia’s Real Baptism of Fire by Greg Raffin Taking to the Skies by Jim Eames Taubada Time: Papua New Guinea by Noel...
Some 2000 young Australian men served as Patrol Officers in Papua New Guinea between the end of World War Two and Papua New Guinea Independence in 1975. They were known by Papua New Guinea...
In my early years in PNG, I had such horrible experiences with crocodiles that, to this day, memories of these experiences still survive to haunt me. And I warn you too, that if horror...
