Category: Political Development

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots It is important that we understand that ‘defending’ someone on a criminal charge means ‘doing, for him, what he cannot do himself because he does not have your specialist knowledge’. There...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The Queen against Atemba was one of two cases which caused confusion because, in the Committal Hearing, they were prosecuted by the European Police, giving the impression to the Magistrate, and...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots   This case was about a government patrol being attacked. Ikuar was only charged with ‘unlawful wounding’ but he could easily have killed the policeman he speared and J.K. McCarthy (who...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots It is because of the tendency for false allegations to supplant truth, that I am writing these Snapshots and, in a curious way, an incident on tonight’s SBS typifies what I...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The summaries of Sean Dorney’s excellent Blamey Oration and of the SMH report on the Papua New Guinea Defence Force, which were in the last Una Voce, refer to a period...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots There were many other Father Rays and Don Barretts doing wonderful jobs and, as I have said, I will illustrate what I mean by a couple of quotes from my Letter...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots I forget when I made this precis of Judge Gore’s classic paper (referred to in No. 28 above) but it was circulated several times. I also re-issued the full text on...

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 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 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...