Category: People & Places
Remembering Prue Clarke OAM
ROBERT PARER Prue Clarke OAM, who passed in August 2022, wrote to me two years earlier about her parents, Agnes and Kendall ‘Ken’ Frank, and other interesting family members. Her mother, Agnes, worked at...
Our Time in PNG: and How I Became a Historian There
Ian Howie-Willis From the time I was five years old, I wanted to go to Papua New Guinea. That was in 1943, the year the Australian Army recaptured Lae, Salamaua and Finschhafen from the...
Planting Memories:A Settler’s Life on the Sogeri Plateau
Anthea Matley At the beginning of September 2018, long after my parents had passed away, I said to my husband, Peter: ‘I want to go back to New Guinea. Do you think we can...
The Strange World of Lae, New Guinea in 1962
Ann Mallard I went to Lae to get married. My new husband, Ken Mallard, was an Australian I met on a ship returning from my first trip abroad. Neither of us had families who...
Taking Muriel Home—a Mother’s Legacy
Part Two: Rosalie Everest During my recent pilgrimage returning the ashes of my mother, Muriel Larner MBE, back to the Eastern Highlands of PNG, the most poignant moment took place around 3 am on...
PNGAA Sunshine Coast – Christmas lunch
Date: Wednesday, 6 November 2024 – from 11:30 am for lunch from midday. Venue: Palmwoods Hotel, 28-34 Main Street, Palmwoods, Queensland. Parking is available behind the hotel or nearby. Close to the...
PNGAA WA Christmas lunch – PERTH
The last PNGAA Perth event hit the news and what a great response! Now, it’s on again and all are welcome! Date: Friday, 15 November 2024 from 11.30am Venue: RAAFA Club, Air Force Memorial...
PNGAA Christmas Lunch – Canberra
The events are always happy gatherings so please come along and share some Christmas spirit! Friends welcome! Date: Saturday, 14 December 2024 Time: Noon for 12.30 pm Venue: Pavilion Hotel, 242 Northbourne Avenue, Canberra...
VALES & TRIBUTES
CLIFFORD | DAVIES | MAYNARD | McCARTHY | MOORE | NEEDHAM | PELIKAN | TAYLOR | WILLIAMS CLIFFORD, Leon Saturday, 18 May 2024 The PNG Forestry mob has lost another Forest icon with the...
30th Anniversary of the Volcanic Destruction of Rabaul
On 19 September 1994, with little warning, two volcanos—Vulcan and Tavurvur—erupted and buried East New Britain’s capital, Rabaul, known as the ‘pearl of the Pacific’ and ‘Frangipani Town’. Almost two decades after PNG achieved...
Remembering Glenys ‘Gleny’ Köhnke
Well-known artist, sculptor and author, Gleny was born in Brisbane, Qld on 23 October 1948, and was drawing and painting for as long as she could remember, deciding at a young age that she...
My PNG Journey
Liz MacKinlay, CEO of Australian Business Volunteers My journey with Papua New Guinea is deeply intertwined with my family’s history and my own love for the country. My family has a long connection to...
Panguna Women After Closure of the Mine
Simon Pentanu I took this shot from a moving vehicle on a visit to Panguna on 15 January 2016. The photo isn’t great resolution-wise, but please read on. As our vehicle descended toward the...
Crossing the Saruwageds, Easter 1976 – Part Three
Ian Howie-Willis Part Two of this three-part series described how the author and his three Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) companions tried to find their way down the northern side of the...
