PART 2 . . . . Part 1 can be found HERE Kundiawa was the administrative centre for the heavily populated Chimbu District. As well as Government offices, stores, post office, a motel, golf...
Part 1: Learning the Ropes In late 1960 I was appointed as a technical assistant in the CSIRO Division of Land Research and Regional Survey, New Guinea Survey Section. My job was to assist...
Ruth Pitt (née Lewis) – PART 1 I grew up in Port Pirie, South Australia. After General Nursing training in Adelaide, as a Registered Nurse (Sister in those days) with two friends I sailed...
It was a rite of passage to go to Papua New Guinea as a medical student. I went with my husband, Peter Sip, in January 1982. We had just finished our fourth year at...
In 1980, while attending a conference on malaria in Sydney, I met Peter Sharp, who was at that time working in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea as a medical officer. He described to...
ROBIN COOKE Pigs are widely distributed throughout PNG, although it is not clear how long they have been in the country. However, they have been there long enough to be incorporated into the social...
A personal recollection of Papua New Guinea medical services PRE-INDEPENDENCE Jack Wall In 1968 I spent two months working for the Public Health Department (PHD) of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea (TPNG)...
The PNG National Department of Health announced this week that Covid-19 vaccines are now available to those over 18 years in PNG. The Australian Government has also said it will roll out 15 million...
Papua New Guinea has been contending with a Covid-19 outbreak that has put its fragile health system under intense pressure. Case numbers have in recent weeks stabilised but there are concerns that vaccine hesitancy...
In July 1946, Sister Constance ‘Paul’ Fairhall returned to Papua and was able to round up patients, old and new, and with some original staff, return to Gemo. It had grown from three to...
The roar of the engine was intense. I was escorting a patient in pain from Kundiawa District Hospital in Chimbu to Goroka General Hospital, and the pilot was trying to gain height to cross...
Medical services in Papua New Guinea were poorly developed until after WWII when the Australian Government established a combined administration of the pre-war Territory of Papua and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea into...
ABC’s Nightlife with Suzanne Hill on 28 December 2020 featured a fascinating interview with Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy – Clinical immunologist (pioneer in a field known as mucosal immunology) and author of the forthcoming...
Gender-based violence (GBV) in PNG Participants recently gathered and danced at the National Summit for Ending GBV. According to Human Rights Watch, nearly seven out ten women in Papua New Guinea experience rape or...
PNG blocks Chinese plane after workers were used in vaccine testing Sourced from the Daily Mail Papua New Guinea has turned around a plane full of Chinese workers after it was revealed a...
Cultural insights / Exhibits / FEATURED / Galleries
Visit to Bilas Exhibition, Australian Museum, Sydney
September 29, 2023
Bush, Brush and Bubbles – with Julianne Ross Allcorn, 3 November 2023
September 26, 2023
