The Australian Aid: Friendship Grants were recently launched at Parliament House, Canberra. We thank Stella Conroy for representing the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia at this launch. The Friendship Grants will provide small...
The arts have unique potential to connect people and inspire new interest in a place and its traditions. There are thousands of years of indigenous history and culture in Australia and Papua New Guinea....
DATE: Sunday 27th May, 2018 PANEL PRESENTATION All Welcome. PRESENTERS: Barbara Jennings will be interviewed by Juli Ross-Allcorn about her life on arrival to PNG in 1954. Pat Johnson – How WW2 and the...
BEN BOHANE | Vanuatu Daily Post | 6 May 2018 PORT VILA – China. China. China. All the talk is of increasing Chinese influence in our region. But this is to wilfully see past...
Our fundraising goal is nearly there, but not quite, and we need your support with some more donations to achieve this. For several months now many of you know that the PNGAA has been...
There will be a radio documentary, which can be listened to and downloaded, broadcast at 1pm (each state) on Earshot tomorrow November 11 2017, on ABC Radio National. Today on ABC online (10 November...
At about 0015 in the early morning of Monday the 9th of October, Jim passed away peacefully in his sleep, in hospital on the Sunshine Coast. He had been unwell for some years. There...
The Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Inc is saddened to hear news that Jim Sinclair passed away in hospital at 12:15am on 9 October 2017. Jim was one of the old school of...
History teachers from all over Australia visited the NGVR/PNGVR Museum in Brisbane on 28 September 2017 as an excursion sponsored by the PNGAA (Rabaul and Montevideo Maru Group) and PNGVR. Hearing about what happened...
The returned O’Neill government faces major economic challenges. So what are the problems, and what should the Prime Minister and his new Treasurer do about them? Stephen Howes and Rohan Fox of the ANU...
A wonderful collaboration between PNGAA, NGVR/PNGVR Ex members Association and the NSAAQ saw close to 140 people attend the talk today by Philip Selth OAM on Coastwatchers JJ Murphy, Jack Read and Paul Mason....
Following the successful 75th Anniversary Commemorative events in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, on 22 June 2017 and Canberra on 1 July 2017 where the book “When the War Came: New Guinea Islands 1942”, published...
The unmarked Japanese prison ship Montevideo Maru was sunk by an American submarine off the Philippines on July 1, 1942 and more than 1,000 Australian soldiers and civilians perished. It remains Australia’s worst –...
A unique opportunity to spend a few days in Rabaul and see all the sites – if you are interested you will need to book as soon as possible. Full details are on the...
Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove will lead Anzac Day commemorations in Papua New Guinea to mark the 75th anniversaries of Kokoda and the Battle of Milne Bay. Source: AAP 23 APR 2017 – 9:52 AM UPDATED 23 APR 2017 – 9:52 AM...
