Book Reviews
Book Reviews: Courage In the Skies by Jim Eames; The Northumbrian Kiap by Robert Forster; Solomon Islanders in World War II by Anna Annie Kwai; LIGHT by Anne McCosker; The Volcano’s Wife by Amalia Cowley &...
Book Reviews: Courage In the Skies by Jim Eames; The Northumbrian Kiap by Robert Forster; Solomon Islanders in World War II by Anna Annie Kwai; LIGHT by Anne McCosker; The Volcano’s Wife by Amalia Cowley &...
AURICHT, Dr Clive OAM; COLE, Rob (Bob); DICKSON-WAIKO, Anne; DARCEY, Brian Frank; LAMING, Bruce; LEHMANN, Bruce Victor; MENNIS, Brian; RUTHERFORD, Josephine; SAVAGE, Colin; SWEENEY, Jack. AURICHT, Dr Clive OAM D. 10 March 2018 Dr Clive Auricht sadly passed...
The past year marked 75 years since sadly too many Australian lives were lost during World War II fighting in the South West Pacific Area – on Australian soil. Following Pearl Harbour, Darwin at...
The epicentre of the massive earthquake of 26 February 2018 was near the highland town of Komo, in the Karius Range and about 10 km south of the conditioning plant of the PNG Liquefied...
Here is a letter sent by Don Marshall to Rev. Brawn in 1969. Rev. Brawn is my wife Edna’s father. I would call the letter “Lost at Sea”. I have spoken to Don Marshall...
(submitted by Maurice’s wife, Mrs Elizabeth Meth) Continued from previous issue Chapter Four The trading economy from the eighties has moved on to a far more robust model with the change of supply of...
The Director of the South Australian Museum (SAM) Edgar Ravenswood Waite, in 1918 led an expedition, grandly named the North-West Pacific Expedition, departing Sydney 31st May on SS Marsina, returning Sydney 1st September on...
In April 2010, Joan Stobo had the delight of returning to Rabaul with three of her children, and three grandchildren aboard MV Orion. ‘It had been 42 years since she lived there and her...
One of the five door prizes at the biennial Cairns “X-Kiaps, Families and Friends Reunion” event was a penultimate-draft set of the six-volume history of The Sepik which has been a labour of love...
Maia Awak was one of the few old New Guineans who knew the year of his birth. He was born in 1904 when Madang was part of German New Guinea. It was the year...
A recent ABC TV news item regarding a move to develop Mt. Giluwe as a tourist destination caught my attention; it stirred up memories of my own experience in the early 1960s as a...
There are hundreds of allied aircraft and their crews still missing in the South West Pacific from World War II. Flight Lieutenant Barry Mortimer Cox as well as Sgt Ron Bailey, both of 75...
In May 2018 I was fortunate to go to Townsville to attend a fundraising breakfast for Youth With A Mission (YWAM). While I was pleased to see some faces and places I knew from...
While I had visited Papua New Guinea for short periods over the years I was particularly fortunate to spend a number of years working fulltime there during the late 1990s and early 2000. I...
For centuries, cannibalism was not only part of tribal life in Papua New Guinea but a central part of religion. When European colonialists arrived in the late 19th century, cannibalism was outlawed. The last...