Category: Political Development

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...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The mention of ‘former British, Spanish, Dutch or French colonies’ is an essential and recurring background theme because, as mentioned in No. 8, the first ‘business’ of my first day in...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots What I am about to quote is actually the passage, in my Letter Recommending Awards and Decorations, headed Tinkukuniming, uncle of Sinoksep, the interpreter trained by Suni. I do, however, believe...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots As mentioned before, the plan to kill all foreigners in the Telefomin area as soon as the signal was given, involved everyone. The concept of someone not obeying simply could not...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In No. 25, and in many other Snapshots, I named kiaps whose ‘notable defences’ had been recorded but the only time that I know of where a kiap had to defend...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The Telefomin Massacres were totally unbelievable, both when they occurred and when the perfection of the planning was discovered. They were the greatest massacre in TPNG history as well as being...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The conference was held in Port Moresby on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 November 1955 and it was one of the most important events in TPNG history. Since 200 copies of...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots We have already asked who trained Bunat, Paheki, Muyei and others; who allowed Sauweni and others to flourish and, since it appears that – with some notable exceptions – modern-day Papua...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Bob Blaikie’s tribute to David Selby in the last issue of Una Voce causes me to mention that, over the years, readers have asked that I include famous trials that I...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Those who were in Port Moresby fifty years ago would remember the wonderful celebrations of the coronation. Villages along the Papua coast had prepared for a whole year – some hiring...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots When I arrived in the Territory I was taken on a long overdue circuit but, instead of starting work as soon as we got to Rabaul, Monte took me to Vunapope...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In previous Snapshots I have tried to take the viewpoint of a fly on the wall – reporting what I saw and heard but playing no part in the event described....

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In late August 1969 and early September my wife’s parents were staying with us because our third child had just been born and because there was a possibility that we would...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots I said, in No. 53 (March 2003 Una Voce), that this was ‘one of the most important events in TPNG history’ and, since there are several reasons why this is so,...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots I have been reading Paul Hasluck’s A Time for Building (Melbourne University Press, 1976) and, for reasons which I will give in a later Snapshot, I am concerned that he says,...