Memorial News
Memorial News Are You Interested in a Trip to Rabaul? A number of people have expressed an interest in returning to Rabaul with a group of interested travellers. The week around Anzac Day 2023...
Issue: 2022 4 December PNG Kundu
VALES & TRIBUTES – December 2022
ASMUSSEN, Alan | MILLS, John | SKINNER, David Ian Scott | Asmussen, Alan (5 July 2022) Alan Asmussen was born in Brisbane in 1938. He went to (then) TPNG in 1960 as a...
PNGAA Report
The next edition of PNG Kundu seems to come around very quickly and, as I write this report, I am reflecting on the state of the PNGAA and what has been achieved so far...
Events Diary
PERTH PNGAA Christmas Lunch Friday, 25 November 2022 Venue: RAAF Memorial Estate, 2 Bull Creek Drive, Bull Creek Time: 11.30 am for 12 noon Contact: Linda Cavanaugh Manning (Mob.) 0429 099 053 or lindam121@bigpond.com CANBERRA...
PNG IN THE NEWS
Two Women Elected to PNG Parliament in 2022 Poll Jo Chandler, supported by the Judith Neilson Institute, and writing in the Guardian, has reported how Rufina Peter, an economist, became just the eighth woman...
Letters & Memories
Airstrips at Lake Kutubu The brief history of the Terrells in the September issue of PNG Kundu is excellent but there is an error in the second paragraph, page 41. The original Lake Kutubu...
Japanese Prison Ships
Readers of PNG Kundu are familiar with the sinking of the Japanese prison ship, Montevideo Maru, on 1 July 1942, and that 20 of the Japanese crew successfully abandoned the ship leaving the prisoners...
Artist from Papua New Guinea has Solo Exhibition in London
An artist, whose making of bark cloth (nioge) and exhibition of examples of it at the Royal Academy of Art in London were described in the September 2022 issue of PNG Kundu, is now...
How Do Papua New Guineans Count? – CA Volker
Professor Volker is a linguist living in New Ireland, and an Adjunct Professor in The Cairns Institute, James Cook University in Australia. He welcomes your language questions for his monthly discussions at http://craig.volker@jcu.edu.au. For...
June Lovina Whittaker AM – Gaynor kaad
The family’s two-year adventure in the early sixties travelling through Europe and working in the UK and Canada had fuelled June’s desire to explore other countries. In 1972 she had an opportunity to visit...
Coca Cola Diplomacy in Papua New Guinea
Deryck Thompson In 2017 I was working for an exploration company in the far west of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Our exploration camp, Kili Teke, was in the middle of nowhere on...
Guam Lakes Patrol – Des Pike
In January 1972, I undertook a brief patrol of the Nodabu region of the Aiome Patrol Post administrative area, which includes villages along the banks of the Ramu River. As this was to be...
Rural Development and Planning — A Case Study – Barry Holloway
This story is about Patrol Post X in Papua New Guinea and how, in the mid-1950s, the Patrol Officer (PO) of the Department of Native Affairs had to manipulate the law, public monies, government...
Plantation Life in the 1960s – Ian Smith
Isolated and remote locations like the New Guinea Islands seemed to attract colourful and interesting people in the 1960s. Some of these characters were involved in the management of copra and cocoa plantations. Many...
Mother’s Love: Meri nambis – Jeffrey
She married a Highlander, was humiliated by her husband and family but bore the pain and raised her kids alone as her husband remarried other wives. She sent her kids to school and, finally,...
