Attacks on patrols: Paul Oates
A very short list of examples to illustrate the working environment of many former kiaps The correspondence on the Kainantu attacks on Burge and Brown is digitalized on the National Archives website. As many...
Category: Political Development
Independence Day reminiscences
(Published in Una Voce, September 2005) Dave Tarrant In 1975 there were many expats leaving PNG and I was one of them. As an Industrial Relations Officer with the Dept of Labour I...
KIAP (DVD)
Some 2000 young Australian men served as Patrol Officers in Papua New Guinea between the end of World War Two and Papua New Guinea Independence in 1975. They were known by Papua New Guinea...
The Kiaps Compendium
Compiled and edited by Nancy Johnston Dedicated to the memory of William James (Bill) Johnston 1 October 1924 – 12 September 2001 A Kiap of the Territory of Papua & New Guinea Bill...
Introduction
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In late 1954, soon after Professor Elkin, the editor of Sydney University’s anthropology journal Oceania told me he wanted to publish my article “AFEK of Telefomin” but was experiencing difficulty getting...
1. Sell-out in Manus, 1946-48
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Paul Quinlivan was prompted to send us the following after reading Brian Jink’s ‘Help Wanted’ notice regarding” an episode in Manus in 1948 when police under Commissioner Grimshaw were sent...
2. Slipshod and you’re in trouble
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Before I went to TPNG I had been Secretary of the Marist College Old Boys Association of WA and, since everyone knew I intended going to PNG for only the one...
3. Rehabilitation, Reichstag Fire Trial and “TDSM” – Traditional Disputes-Settling Machinery
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots This was also written for the Old Boys’ talk and, in March 1955, halfway through the Law Students Project, the jury trial of The Queen v. Harry Vincent Pierce made it...
4. Revolutionary rule to protect the right to silence
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The Queen against KABO, heard at Sohano on 29 February 1952, was my first nolle – that is, the first trial I aborted saying “this trial ceases here”. The Defending Officer,...
8. Speech of Chief Justice Phillips on Tuesday 12 February 1952 at Rabaul
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Snapshot No 3 describes my first day in court in TPNG but, rather than give Monte’s speech then, I preferred to give his performance in two truly remarkable cases. He commenced...
9. “It Is is Not For Anyone to Invent”
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The next two snapshots are for the benefit of younger readers who may sometimes fear that, perhaps, their father or uncle who was in the Admin. may not always have been...
5. Stiffly starched white coats, and other differences
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The coats on all the men in the photo on the middle pages of the last Una Voce remind me of an essential difference between the early 50s and, say, the...
6. Bill Burford and weekends at Brown River
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Everyone agreed that you had to get an outside interest but nobody told you how. Monte Phillips had started the Port Moresby Music Society which put on musical comedies, and Ruth...
7. Wonderful detective work – by various people
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The Queen against Lapae was a wilful murder trial at Rabaul on 4 and 5 March 1952. It was so important that I immediately wrote a full report to Crown Law...
10. Persons in authority must be particularly careful
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Readers who watched the recent BBC TV series Ruling Passions on SBS, and whose father or grandfather served in the Admin., must have been affected by the fact that it depicted...
