Category: Cultural insights

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...

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....

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....