Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots BMedical orderlies were trained in many different centres and, since the anti-yaws campaign had caused everyone to believe in the wondrous effectiveness of ‘a shoot’, an essential part of that training...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In the same recommendations I said the following about Constables PaahekiI of Mumuni, Popondetta, and Muyei of Saba, Waria. For a proper understanding of it I should mention that the Telefomins...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The September issue contained the first of what I intended to be three sets of Snapshots about the Telefomin trials but, because of something unforseen (which I will discuss in the...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots I have just described why I feel that this is especially relevant in a sequence about Telefomin but I should also explain how it came to be written. From the...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In the unnumbered Snapshot at the beginning of page 33 of the March 1999 Una Voce, I mentioned that Monte got all the judges to select a ‘notable defence’ for me...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Kuru was a hideous disease unique to the Fore people of the Kainantu subdistrict and research on it led to breakthroughs which solved many medical problems. So much so that the...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Obviously, the reason for the rule was that such people lack immunity to coastal diseases but there is an additional reason which explains why Monte was so adamant that the...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots When I arrived in TPNG, in January 1952, most of the files for the criminal cases I was about to prosecute were missing because a senior law lecturer, resident in Sydney,...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots There are several levels of ‘facts’ in this case. The first is that, on 3 January 1952, Murphy deliberately threw a plate at a Native; the plate hit him in the...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In Snapshot 22 I explained how, just after I arrived back in TPNG in March 1954, I was sent to Samarai. And how, the very day I returned to Moresby from...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots It may sound odd that I, a lawyer who had prosecuted a record number of cases before the Supreme Court and defended over forty there, should say that I was ‘assistant...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots I mentioned in No. 42 that I wrote a lengthy letter to the Crown Law Officer at the end of my second week on this assignment and these passages become important...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots It was not until after Jack Grainger and I had become very interested in Femsep that we located the most important of the police who had brought in the Telefomins convicted...
PNGAA Library: Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots 46. Suni, a fine example of belief in the rule of law From Sauweni’s account it was clear that Suni was not only completely innocent: he had been a...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots It is easy for many kinds of scientists to take a sample which will show precisely what was the current state of affairs at a given moment in the past. But...
