The Papua New Guinea Association of Australia (PNGAA) invited Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare GCL GCMG CH CF SSI KSG PC MP to be our guest at the annual Christmas luncheon on Sunday 3...
Time was catching up with us as we dropped off our local guide and sped back to the main river (only getting a little “lost” on the lake once but then back on track)....
In the spirit of his forebears… interview with Will Comiskey and his mother, Pip Comiskey (nee Parer) words by Belinda Macartney www.facebook.com/willcomiskeymongolderby/photos Una Voce regularly reports past stories of adventure, of courage and tenacity....
Goroka Teachers College, Eastern Highlands District 1968 -70 In 1967 I was posted again but this time to the new UNESCO-sponsored Goroka Teachers’ College. The college trained primary and high school teachers who would...
INTRODUCTION Korfball is a handball-type sport a little like netball or basketball. A major difference is that it is a dedicated mixed team sport with an equal number of both genders playing together. The...
Korfball World Championships 1978 Just prior to Independence in 1975 I left the country after 13 wonderful years there. In 1978 the first world championships were organised and Papua New Guinea was invited to...
Madang Teachers’ College, Madang District, 1972-75 A year’s absence from PNG in 1971 was followed by a return to lecture at Madang Teachers’ College. I found that as a result of our Goroka students’...
Notes and photos by Deryck Thompson In the early days after WW2 a road was constructed from Bulolo to Wau and in later years it was known as the Gorge Road, as it closely...
1 October 1960 – I signed off at BAINYIK Agricultural Station having made travel arrangements for a posting to the opposite side of the New Guinea mainland at KEREMA in the Gulf District of...
CONTINUED A warrior named Apio confided in me that the meat of humans tastes like pig, gutpela kaikai tru but sori tumas nau emi tambu, like the playing of cards – thank you, Sinake...
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...
The year 1942 is remembered for many tragic and also heroic events that WWII brought to the (then) Mandated Territory of New Guinea and Australian Territory of Papua. These included the Tol massacre as...
Chris Warrillow’s letter in Una Voce Sept. 2017 regarding Kairuku village in the Upper Purari got me thinking of a series of events over several years from 1950 to 1954 which culminated in a...
During 1954 I travelled with Jack Rice and Kevin Hilliard, who were carrying a load of 44-gallon drums; the convoy had 2 ex-Army Jeeps, plus 2 fully loaded ex-US Army GMC 6×6 trucks, which...
