Category: Cultural insights

Sialum Patrol Post was situated on the north-eastern tip of the Huon Peninsular about 60 miles north of Finschhafen, the sub district headquarters. I say ‘about 60 miles’ because the Lutheran Missionary at Kalasa...

In 1960 I was appointed Principal at Gon Primary (T) School on the outskirts of Kundiawa in the Eastern Highlands after twelve months at Henganofi. Students came from all over the district and slept...

There is a large PNG population of several thousand living in Queensland with the largest communities living in Cairns and Brisbane, and both cities enjoy getting together on a regular basis as well as...

(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...

That so many delightful and interesting stories fill the pages of Una Voce and PNG Attitude convinced me to add my small contribution to the mill. In October 2010, after years of procrastination, I...

It was my first flight ever. In Sydney, just before midnight on 5 December 1966, a TAA Electra lumbered into the air, turned north and flew all night, with a brief stop at Brisbane,...

2014 ANZAC Centenary Commemorative DinnerWednesday 17 September 2014Stranger’s Dining Room, NSW Parliament House, Sydney Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, and friends: Good evening and a very special welcome to: The Hon. Julie Bishop, Minister...

Telemala is in West New Britain. The Rev. AE Brawn was the father of Eda Oakes. We left Malalia (near Cape Hoskins) on 20 December for Walo—a five hour boat trip—and met the carriers...

Many PNGAA members would like to give new life to personal or family archival papers. Here is how to do it! I persuaded my 90 year old mother-in-law, Marjorie, not to throw out a...

Out in the PNG bush well away from the obtrusive light of town supplies, the clear night sky presented a wondrously beautiful spectacle. The stars glittering in their multitudes seemed much closer there than...

In the early 50s Dick Armstrong had a second-hand shop in Cutherbertson Street, Port Moresby, next door to the Police Court. I remember wandering in one morning and looking around. “Dick!  How much is...

Early in my schoolboy days of stamp-collecting I came across Australian stamps overprinted ‘N.W. Pacific Islands. This was a puzzler: what islands did Australia ever administer in the North-West Pacific? It took years to...