VALES & TRIBUTES – September 2022
ATKINS, Geoffrey Paul | BARTER, Sir Peter Leslie Charles | BAULCH, John Richard | COOTE Eric | DONOVAN, Rod | FAVETTA, Fulvio Sergio Renato (Fif) | FENBURY (nee Sheils), Helen Mary |...
Issue: 2022 3 September PNG Kundu
MEMORIAL NEWS
80th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Montevideo Maru and the Fall of the New Guinea Islands Commemorative Ceremony On 1 July 2022 the 80th Anniversary Commemorative Ceremony was held at the Stone of...
PNG in the News
Women in Politics in PNG Lily, a magazine published by Pacific Islands Publishing, and usually devoted to fashion and other topics of interest principally to women, has, in a recent issue (No. 25), featured...
BOOKS & ART REVIEWS
A Constant Forester Paul Ryan This is the story of Paul Ryan’s forestry career, but it’s not just about trees. It also relates to his growing involvement with the people who, living in or...
Letters & Memories
PNG’s Views on the World At the PNGAA 2022 AGM lunch at the end of April, the presentation on ‘PNG Voices: Perspectives on Australia and the World’ from Drs Andrea Connor and Hannah...
PNGAA REPORT
From the President I hope that everybody is surviving the winter despite the cold and wet weather that those of us in southern parts of Australia have been experiencing. The good news is that...
PNG Voices: Listening to Australia’s Closest Neighbour, Papua New Guinean Perspectives on Australia and the World
The recent security agreements between Pacific Island nations and China has raised concerns about Australia’s relationships with these nations and the changing strategic environment within the region. It also highlights the need for deeper...
Are These PNG’s Oldest Surviving Mission Buildings?
David Wetherell In 1872 the vessel, John Knox, under Carl Thorngren, lost its way and landed in Milne Bay while carrying Lifuans from the Loyalty Islands to the Torres Strait Islands mission of the London...
June Lovina Whittaker AM by Gaynor Kaad
TEACHER, HISTORIAN, AUTHOR, FARMER & FRIEND Part 1 June Whittaker, who died on 8 February 2022, was a long-standing staff member of the Australian School of Pacific Administration/International Training Institute (ASOPA/ITI), a frequent visitor...
Training in Mt Hagen, 1982 by Jenny McDonald
It was a rite of passage to go to Papua New Guinea as a medical student. I went with my husband, Peter Sip, in January 1982. We had just finished our fourth year at...
Astrolabe Bay
Des Pike I was a kiap for ten years (1964–74) in what was then the Madang District of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. District headquarters were at Madang on the northern arm...
Tim & Judy Terrell
A kiap and a secretary —an enduring love HOLLY NORTHAM We are proud to share a little about the lives of our adored parents, Tim and Judy Terrell—and to frame their legacy that is...
The Kina Meets the Tabu: Ancient Kastom and a Safe Passage to the Afterlife
Kalolaine Kalu Imagine being able to pay your parking fine with a string of shells. In Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province, you can do precisely that! The pearl oyster, the cowrie and...
Madang Yacht Club
Ron Austin In 1964 I arrived in the Territory of Papua New Guinea to fly for Trans Australia Airlines (TAA). As I was dual endorsed for flying DC3s and Bristol Freighters and would be...
