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...
Category: Cultural insights
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...
Walk into Paradise DVD
Available to buy from PNGAA – see below The Committee of the PNGAA is proud to announce the release of the DVD Walk into Paradise, the classic 1950s feature film, directed by Lee Robinson...
Book reviews: March 2014
Fire mountains of the islands: A history of volcanic eruptions and disaster management in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands by Wally Johnson Needed—but not wanted: Chinese in Rabaul 1884-1960 by Peter Cahill...
Book reviews: December 2013
The Backroom Boys by Graeme Sligo Beautiful Tufi: Between the past and the future by Jan Hasselberg Fools’ Gold by David Pye The Backroom Boys by Graeme Sligo ISBN 9781921941122 Big Sky Publishing, PO...
Book reviews: September 2013
From Ballina with love—Up up and away by Gary Faulks Inspector Metau: The Case of the Angry Councillor by Philip Fitzpatrick The Pomong U’tau of Dreams: A Collection of Bougainvillean Poetry by Leonard Fong...
Book Reviews: June 2013
Twixt Semites and swastikas: Temlett Conibeer’s greatest challenge by ACT Marke A Seeker in Papua The Journal of a Young Missionary May 1923-January 1926 Iris Pederick and Phillip Pope (Eds) Twixt Semites and swastikas:...
Book reviews: March 2013
Mangroves, Coconuts and Frangipani: The Story of Rabaul by Neville Threlfall Porton: A Deadly Trap by Audrey Davidson and Battle Survivors Mangroves, Coconuts and Frangipani: The Story of Rabaul by Neville Threlfall ISBN 978-0-646-58310-5...
Book reviews: December 2012
The Flight of the Galkope by Kela Kapkora Sil Bolkin Hell’s battlefield: The Australians in New Guinea in World War II by Phillip Bradley The Kokoda Campaign 1942—Myth and Reality by Dr Peter Williams...
Book reviews: September 2012
Needed but not wanted: Chinese in colonial Rabaul by Peter Cahill Port Moresby: Taim bipo by Stuart Hawthorne Prisoners in Rabaul by Gordon Thomas Stitches in time by David Watters with Anna Koestenbauer Needed...
