Settling the debt: Graham Egan
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,...
Category: Cultural insights
Looking backward—looking forward: Carol Kidu
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...
Clubs and welcomes: Adrian Geyle
(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....
Crocodiles: Chips MacKellar
(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...
The crocodiles of Lake Murray: Adrian Geyle
(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....
Giving the bad news: Graham Egan
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....
Beyond the call of duty: Paul Dennett
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 to PNGAA Symposium Dinner: Julie Bishop
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...
Book reviews: June 2015
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...
Book reviews: March 2015
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...
Book reviews: December 2014
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...
KIAP (DVD)
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...
Crocodiles
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...
The crocodiles of Lake Murray
Lake Murray is a Shangri-la for crocodiles and water snakes. Fish and freshwater turtles abounded too when I was there in the early 50s, and the local Suki people lived well on fresh food...
A New Guinea Christmas
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...
