Misima After Thirty Years
In 2018 I was working in Papua New Guinea and on one of my field breaks, I met my wife, Dympna, in Moresby and we made a short visit to Misima Island, in the...
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PNG in the News
Featuring articles and news reports about contemporary Papua New Guinea—also included are the nation’s sporting achievements and events, and stories about young people doing interesting things— we encourage young people to become involved in...
Sydney Event – Sunday 29 Mar – Women’s Panel
P O S T P O N E D In the interests of the health of possible attendees and the community at large, the Committee has decided to postpone PNGAA Events for the moment....
PNG ‘Chalkies’ Honoured by NSW Department of Education
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,...
Madang Field Trips, 2014 by Mary Mennis, MBE #2: Bilbil Village and Island
The first Madang field trip, to Malmal Village, was featured in the September issue of Una Voce. The second was to Bilbil Village and Island. I first went to there in 1974. I was...
The Human Face of Kokoda by Suellen Holland
Opportunities present themselves all the time and it’s our choice whether we act upon these opportunities or not. Two years ago, I was presented with an opportunity to ‘walk’ the Kokoda Trail. I admit...
Kimbe to Kimbe: PNG Revisited—an epilogue to the 11-part Didiman’s Diary Series by David Montgomery
Ten years had passed since Gillian, myself and the two boys, Scott and Mark, had left Papua New Guinea. A new life and a new career had begun in 1967 on a property at...
New book: “A Short history of the Pacific Islands Monthly Magazine”
The Pacific Islands Monthly Magazine (PIM) was a brave publication started in The Great Depression that over the following 70 years became the ‘Pacific Bible’. Now Bob Lawrence, an ABC News Journalist who was...
Bob Gotts’ Butterfly Collection – 25 November 2019, Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra
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...
See footage on PNG! National Film & Sound Archives, Canberra – Friday 22 November 2019
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...
Disaster Struck the Garden City
It has been twenty-five years since the major eruption on 19 September 1994 of volcanoes Vulcan and Tavurvur, destroyed the once-picturesque coastal town of Rabaul, then the capital of East New Britain Province. THERE...
TISA: A Teacher’s Experience in PNG 1962–75 by Roy Kirkby (Part 1)
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,...
Tour de New Ireland Cycling event – Boluminski Highway
11 April 2019 marked the opening of upgrades to the Boluminski Highway in New Ireland – a project led by the Papua New Guinea Department of Works and funded by the PNG-AusPartnership. As part...
Morning in Goroka by Maj-General John Pearn, AO, RFD
One awakes, the memory of so many similar awakenings afresh, to the sound of rain, rain that is heavy, full and deep-sounding, which itself carries a feeling of timelessness in this mountain place. The...
Lord Forster Visits the Western Islands by Rob Parer
I came across a press report from Rabaul/Kokopo, New Guinea of 4 September 1924, and was amazed to learn that the Governor-General of Australia, Lord Henry Forster, GCMG, PC, came to TPNG and, from...
