The Free West Papua Movement
‘ PNG Kundu’ readers may remember seeing on the news in October last year graphic pictures of unrest in the now Indonesian controlled province of West Papua. Rampaging groups of Papuans with troops firing...
Issue: 2020 2 June PNG Kundu
LETTERS & ENQUIRIES
Administration Records Recently some colleagues and I, who were veterinary officers in the then Territory of Papua & New Guinea (TP&NG), prepared a paper on the Territory’s veterinary service between the end of World...
PNG IN THE NEWS
Featuring articles and news reports about contemporary Papua New Guinea—also included are the nation’s sporting achievements and events, and stories about young people doing interesting things— we encourage young people to become involved in...
ART & BOOK REVIEWS
Featuring new books about Papua New Guinea and reviews, art and craft exhibitions, interviews of interest to members and information for authors, artists and craftspeople—please send your articles and photos to editor@pngaa.net Playing Their...
Bert Kienzle: The Architect of Kokoda
Captain Herbert Thomson ‘Bert’ Kienzle was born in Fiji in 1905 of Samoan, English, German descent. In WWI he and his family were all imprisoned in internment camps at Bourke and Molonglo because of...
Robinson Sakiki, MM
Increased social media during the lockdown Anzac Day period prompted the emergence of extraordinary ‘lost’ history of Papua New Guineans who fought bravely alongside Australians and Americans in WWII. One captivating post by Kokoda...
Vale – Kundu June 2020
The recent history of Papua New Guinea is intimately bound up with the people who made PNG their home and, in many cases, their life’s work—it is therefore fitting, but also with deep regret,...
MEMORIAL NEWS
The Rabaul & Montevideo Maru Society was established in 2009 and integrated into the PNGAA in 2013. The society encourages students and adults to explore the significance of WWII in the Papua New Guinea...
The Swamp Ghost
The Swamp Ghost was the nickname given to a WWII B17E bomber wreck that was located inland of Dyke Ackland Bay, in the Agaiembo swamp, in today’s Oro Province of PNG. The wreck rested...
The Yonki Dam Project – Education on the Dangers of Deep Water
In Don Wotton’s role as environmental planner for Elcom (PNG Power) during the construction phase of the Yonki Dam project from 1990–1996, he engaged local PNG artists to produce brochures to educate villagers as...
Family Farm to PNG Development Bank – Story of a Didiman – Part Four
February 1968 saw me back in Kundiawa, administrative centre of the Chimbu District, after my first leave of three months. I actually returned about a week earlier than originally planned, constrained by a broken...
Una Voce’s ‘Correspondent from the Northern Territory’: Jim Toner, BEM
James Bernard Toner was born on 7 January 1930 at North Wembley, Middlesex, England and passed away on 6 November 2019, just two months shy of his ninetieth birthday. After completing secondary school, he...
The Royal Australian Navy and the PNGDF Maritime Element – Part 2
Part One of this account of the Navy in PNG in the last PNG Kundu traced the story through to Independence. This part takes up this story of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force...
Misima After Thirty Years
In 2018 I was working in Papua New Guinea and on one of my field breaks, I met my wife, Dympna, in Moresby and we made a short visit to Misima Island, in the...
Gemo Island Hospital: in the Beginning
In 1937, English nurse Constance Fairhall, known to her colleagues as ‘Paul’, started a hospital for tuberculosis and leprosy on an island in Port Moresby harbour called Hanudamava, better known as Gemo. In 1934,...
