Tuesday, 7 September 2021 – Kokoda Memorial Walkway Event 9.30-12nn Venue: Kokoda Memorial Walkway Killoola Street, Rhodes Park, Concord (Sydney) Registration: collection@pngaa.net or Cheryl Marvell (phone number in PNG Kundu) Join in a walk...
The Australian Curriculum public consultation is open. Please let our Australian educators know that teaching Australian/PNG history is important. The public consultation period on proposed revisions to the Australian Curriculum opened on Thursday 29...
Tony Friend, a kiap who also worked as a development officer and community liaison officer, spent more than thirty years in remote areas of Papua New Guinea. For almost half of the time he...
At the start of 1963 I was transferred to Namau Primary T School. It was only three years old and consisted of a bush material classroom, three concrete and fibro classrooms, a single European...
In 1953 I started my apprenticeship as a fitter, at the University of NSW, School of Metallurgy. Here I met Jimmy Monteith, who had lived and worked on the Bulolo Gold Fields from the...
Pre-Loved Children’s Books for PNG Village Schools In December 2018 we hosted two University students from the PNG Highlands here in Benalla in North East Victoria. These were Gita Korimbo from EHP, and Vivian...
The last article I sent to the PNGAA journal (see June 2019 p28) consisted of tragic conditions at all the schools and hospital in Alotau at Milne Bay. Since then PNG has a new...
Part One of my story told of my years at Kompiam (UV, June 2019, p.15) and Part Two (UV, December 2019, p.37) featured the years at Jimi River School, and Keltiga Primary T School, which...
The Bragge Collection, gifted to James Cook University by Laurie Bragge, features two intimately connected components – more than 600 material culture artifacts collected by Mr Bragge during the time he lived and worked...
The NSW Department of Education has paid tribute to a unique group of former teachers who served our country during the Vietnam War period. (L-R) Christopher Charles, Director, School Operations and Performance, Ken Boston,...
The previous issue featured my training in Rabaul, and then teaching at Kompiam School from 1962 to 1963. One of my most privileged memories was of my departure from Kompiam on being posted to...
The colourful butterflies of PNG add to this extraordinary country’s beauty and colour. This is a rare opportunity to see Bob Gotts’ amazing collection! Bob Gotts went to PNG to teach and spent 60...
PNGAA members have a special opportunity to visit the NFSA and experience film footage on Papua New Guinea including sound and still images. There is a range of fascinating material starting from the 1930s...
I arrived in Rabaul in TPNG at the end of 1963 for the 6th E Course. My future wife, Marg, turned up early in 1964, and we married in August of that year. I...
Like so many expatriates, I was attracted to Papua New Guinea long before I arrived there. My interest began in England as a high school student in the late 1940s through a world map,...
