A Daughter’s Tribute by Andrea Williams
Margaret McCausland COOTE, nee Hamilton (14 March 1925 – 7 January 2018, aged 92 years) Margaret was born in the family home at Mascot to Edna and Robert (Bob) Hamilton, spending her early years...
Margaret McCausland COOTE, nee Hamilton (14 March 1925 – 7 January 2018, aged 92 years) Margaret was born in the family home at Mascot to Edna and Robert (Bob) Hamilton, spending her early years...
On the day of the ceremony at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, to mark the 75th Anniversary of the sinking of the Montevideo Maru, after the event, that evening the Last Post Ceremony...
At about 0015 in the early morning of Monday the 9th of October, Jim passed away peacefully in his sleep, in hospital on the Sunshine Coast. He had been unwell for some years. There...
The Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Inc is saddened to hear news that Jim Sinclair passed away in hospital at 12:15am on 9 October 2017. Jim was one of the old school of...
Gordon Dick, PNG agriculturalist with an aversion for authority PETER DANIELS | Port Macquarie News With acknowledgement to: Keith Jackson & Friends: PNG ATTITUDE GORDON Dick, who has died in Port Macquarie aged 82,...
I worked with Gus Smales on and off in Port Moresby and Rabaul right through the 1960s and early 1970s. I was more of a sports writer than a politics scribe but even so...
Early years Peter was born in Samarai, PNG, in 1926 to Rhoda and Philip Coote. After a few years in Samarai the family moved to Rabaul where Philip became Company Manager of Burns Philp....
A note to advise that Angus ‘Gus’ Smales MBE, IMPNG, veteran journalist (PNG/Aust.) has passed away on 10 July 2017, aged 86 years. Gus was the dearly loved husband of Betty (deceased 2015) and...
Our thoughts are with Graham Watts and his family on the loss of his wife Lavah. Lavah Watts died on Sunday 4 June 2017, succumbing to injuries she suffered after being crushed by a...
Whilst on leave as a result of a routine chest x ray for T.B. a heart defect was found. Tom was operated on at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney in March 1964. He was unable...
THOMAS ARTHUR STEEN 27/06/1932 to 3/11/2015 aged 83 years Tom was born in Leeton, New South Wales the eldest of three children, spending his early years in Yanco where his father was the licensee...
This is an attempt to write a tribute to a legend, an idol, a visionary, yet one of the most unique humble Yuna men who ever lived. In so doing we ask that ‘Sir’...