Early Teaching Postings
Ken McKinnon AO Arriving in Port Moresby in 1954 after three months at the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA), I began my career in the Department of Education of the Territory of Papua...
Category: Education and teaching
Saving Kwato Island
English missionary, Rev. Charles William Abel (1862–1930), began work at Port Moresby in 1890 and in 1891 he joined Rev. FW Walker on the mission station at the island of Kwato, about 3 km...
PNGAA Visit to Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway
PNGAA members and friends have an opportunity to visit the Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway in Concord. It will be a pleasant morning stroll on the Sydney Harbour foreshore at Concorde. We will see their...
The Bilum Story – a virtual premiere screening of the film available to 10 March 2022
Bilum & Bilas are excited to have been included in a new short film celebrating the creative economy for inclusive economic development in PNG. For thousands of years, bilum weaving has been handed down...
Sydney Oceanic Art Fair Lecture by Lesley Wengembo – Saturday 6 November 2021
Lecture by Lesley Wengembo: CULTURAL IDENTITY, OUR GREATEST ASSET, 1pm Due to Covid, numbers are limited and bookings essential. VENUE: Cell Block Theatre | The National Art School (NAS) corner of Forbes & Burton...
SYDNEY OCEANIC ART FAIR + Lecture – 6 November 2021
Date: Saturday 6 November 2021 The PNGAA table at the Sydney Oceanic Art Fair welcomes your contributions for sale (10% to PNGAA; the balance to you!) Please email events@pngaa.net if you’d like to participate....
Life and Times at Talidig School 1961-62 – PNGK Sept 2021
LEN SMITH After six months at Malahang Teachers’ College in Rabaul, in 1961 I was posted to Talidig Continuation School. Talidig was a boarding school in the Madang District and it catered for students...
Tony Friend Scholarship for Telefomin & Oksapmin Students MARIA WRONSKA-FRIEND
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...
Namau Primary T School by Len Smith (PNG KUNDU March 2021)
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...
Fast Track Teacher Training in TPNG: My Experience
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...
From Little things, Bigger Things Grow
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...
Books to PNG’s Milne Bay Schools
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...
Tisa: A Teacher’s Experience in PNG 1962–75 by ROY KIRKBY (Part Three)
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...
Laurie Bragge’s generous donation to James Cook University
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...
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,...
