PNG IN THE NEWS
Death of Founding Father Sir Pita Lus was born on 16 Sept-ember 1935 in Lehinga in the Sepik district and died in Maprik not long after Independence Day in 2021. He was a founding...
Issue: 2022 March PNG Kundu
MEMORIAL NEWS
Commemorating the 80th Anniversary Commemorative Service—1 July 2022 A special service will be held at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on 1 July 2022. A dinner will also be hosted that evening. It...
VALE & TRIBUTES
BOOTH, Nicholas Peter |BURTON, James Frederick | KERLEY, Fr Kevin | RAMPLING, Anita (née Larcher) | STEWART, Michael John | WILSON, Roger | Benjamin J White BOOTH, Nicholas Peter 22 November 2021, aged 76 Nick Booth, who...
BOOKS & ART REVIEWS
Kevin Deutrom When the War Came to Our Ples: Some stories from the Momase Region of PNG When war zones are on the lands of indigenous subsistence farmers, the impact on the inhabitants is...
LETTERS & MEMORIES
Three Degrees of Separation … Congratulations on another excellent edition of PNG Kundu. I found the article by Steve Capelin about his novel based on the ill-fated attempt to colonise New Ireland and his...
EVENTS DIARY
Perth Christmas Lunch, November 2021 The Perth Christmas lunch was held at the RAAF Club on 26 November 2021 and the highlights of the day were the short films of the main towns in...
PNGAA REPORT
From the President The start of 2022 has come and gone again and perhaps, like me, you are in a little trepidation as to how the remainder of the year will unfold with COVID...
Prelude to the Pacific War in New Guinea
The New Guinea Campaign of WWII lasted from early 1942 until the Japanese surrender at Wewak in September 1945. During the initial phase, eighty years ago, Japan invaded the Australian-administered Mandated Territory of New...
Celebrating PNGAA’s 70th Anniversary with a Tropical Christmas Lunch ANDREA WILLIAMS
Fifty guests enjoyed mingling and chatting at PNGAA’s celebration of its seventieth anniversary and its annual Christmas Lunch on Sunday, 5 December 2021. Whilst a smaller number than usual, following months of lockdown in...
A Concrete Legacy DAVID (Dave) KEATING, OAM
After being at ASOPA from 1961–62 I taught at four high schools in Papua New Guinea (PNG)—Malabunga, Goroka, Karkar and Brandi—from 1963 to 1977. It is often hard to judge our impact as teachers....
Traditional Chest Surgery Among the Enga ROBIN COOKE, OBE, OAM
In 1980, while attending a conference on malaria in Sydney, I met Peter Sharp, who was at that time working in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea as a medical officer. He described to...
A Memory Jogged JOHN QUINN
The December 2021 PNG Kundu article, ‘Recollections of a Plantation Manager’, and especially the few paragraphs about the native, indentured workforce, jogged a dozing gene in my intellect about my early days (1960s) as...
Peter Broadhurst’s Donation of Law Notes PAUL R MUNRO
In my extended family, as in so many others I know, advancing years throw up questions about what to do with ‘stuff’ that has been hoarded away for some years. ‘Nobody will want it!’...
Images to Ashes DARYL BINNING
After recently moving into a retirement village, I made a distressing discovery. Amongst the personal items and memorabilia from my old home were thousands of feet of motion picture film, which I shot during...
A Summary: Patrolling in Western Papua CHRIS WARRILLOW
As described in the previous article—in late 1963, in what was probably one of the last great patrols in the Territory of Papua—Patrol Officer Bob Hoad set out to explore the country east of...
