Issue: 2022 2 June PNG Kundu

80th Anniversary Events The sinking of Montevideo Maru and Fall of New Guinea Islands will be commemorated on 1 July 2022 in Canberra. There will be an 80th Anniversary Commemorative Ceremony at the Australian...

Solomons Signs Deal with China Kate Lyons and Dorothy Wickham reporting for The Guardian from Honiara on 20 April 2022 revealed that Matthew Wale, the leader of the Solomon Islands Opposition, first learned of...

PNGAA Website Comment A small correction to Chris Sharples’ story, ‘The PNG Star Mountains: Still Wild After All These Years, Part One’. In the third paragraph: The ASME 1965 took a week to walk...

John Brooksbank Eda Moresby: Reflections on the City of Port Moresby This is a lavishly illustrated reference book for all matters concerning Port Moresby—its history, people, languages, villages, streets, suburbs and entrepreneurs, and how...

 PERTH PNGAA Lunch We had a delightful lunch on 25 March 2022 at the RAAF Club. Daryl Binning showed another movie titled, A Flight into Yesterday, made for Department of Civil Aviation in the...

From the President Those members present at last year’s AGM may recall that in my remarks I noted that it was my intention, in conjunction with the committee, to introduce some new initiatives to...

The first intervention into PNG’s Forest Sector was early man who was a hunter and food gatherer. Archaeological evidence indicates that humans arrived on New Guinea perhaps 60,000 years ago. They probably came from...

John Francis Jackson was a father that his two children, Patricia and Arthur, never knew. John was the eldest of six children and purchased a sheep grazing properly at an early age at St...

In Part 1 of this story schoolboys re-enacting an army patrol on the banks of the Buso River had called for a helicopter to evacuate a wounded ‘soldier’. … and as the platoon anxiously...

  In previous issues, Ron Austin related the history of Bristol Freighters in TPNG, and now he tells some of the stories of his time in flying in the Highlands. One afternoon our senior...

When transferred from Kavieng to Kundiawa by the Public Works Department (PWD) in 1970 we were allocated an old administration house. This was not suitable, as a hole had been burnt through the living...

‘Work is rather good now,’ wrote my younger sister, Kate, in May 1972. ‘I am really into a routine … I think they are rather amazed when I get a letter typed with no...

Maurice Wilder-Neligan had a meteoric rise through the ranks from private at Gallipoli to lieutenant-colonel on the Western Front and, when the war ended, he was the second- most decorated soldier in the AIF....