VALES & TRIBUTES
CLARKE | DWYER JOAN | DWYER PETER | NAMALIU | STENNETT CLARKE, Prue OAM 25 August 2022 Prue was born in Port Moresby on 21 September 1939 and evacuated in 1941 with her mother,...
Issue: 2023 2 June PNG Kundu
PNG IN THE NEWS
Review of PNG Constitution In five years from now, in the next term of parliament, Papua New Guinea will observe its Golden Jubilee as an independent nation. When the country became independent the election...
BOOKS & ART REVIEWS
When the Garamuts Beat Fr Franz Miltrup SM Father Miltrup SM, who died in 1989, was a German national and a Marist priest who lived in Bougainville from early 1938 to 1986, mostly in...
LETTERS & MEMORIES
Teaching at Rabaul Sixty Years Ago This week marks the 60th anniversary of the start of my teaching career in PNG. My first school was Malabunga High School, a one- to two-hour drive from...
EVENTS DIARY
MELBOURNE PNGAA Meeting and Get-Together Saturday, 22 July 2023 Time: 12 noon to 3 pm Venue: East Malvern RSL, Stanley Grose Drive, Malvern East Cost: $34pp—drinks can be purchased at the bar on the...
PNGAA REPORT
From the President The Annual General Meeting of the PNGAA was held on Saturday 29 April at the Hornsby RSL Club. Unfortunately, numbers were a bit down again but, overall, the meeting was constructive....
Papua New Guinea Honours King Charles III and Queen Camilla
Upon independence in 1975, the PNG Constitution granted Queen Elizabeth II the title of Head of State of Papua New Guinea. Upon her death in 2022 and the accession of her son, the Prince...
Anzac Day 2023 Commemorated in PNG
Hon Pat Conroy MP, Australian Federal Minister for Defence Industry and Minister for International Development and the Pacific, attended the Dawn Service in Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea on Anzac Day, 25 April...
A Nurse’s Memories of Her Time in TPNG – by Ruth Pitt (née Lewis)
PART 2 . . . . Part 1 can be found HERE Kundiawa was the administrative centre for the heavily populated Chimbu District. As well as Government offices, stores, post office, a motel, golf...
How I Ended Up at Brandi High School – by Ian Willis
The three years that Margaret (my wife) and I spent at Brandi High School near Wewak began with a newspaper advertisement about August 1964. At the time I was running a one-teacher bush school...
Unsavoury Plantation Owner Perishes on Montevideo Maru – by Michael White
William Martin Wilkin was born in Witchford, Isle of Eley, England on 17 July 1885, the son of Martin and Sarah Jane (Langford). He had two older sisters, Emily and Matilda, and an older...
Distinguished Service Award to Rev. Neville Threlfall – by Steven Gagau
At a recent Logohu Award Investiture Ceremony Rev. Neville Threlfall was honoured by the award of the Companion of the Star of Melanesia (CSM) for his distinguished services to Papua New Guinea (PNG), especially...
Life and Times at Sighere T School 1969 – 70 – by Diana Plowman
After three years at Bowali Peter thought the Highlands might be a pleasant change. At least they would be cooler. So, he put in for a transfer and we were told we were going...
Life in Daru in the Fifties – by Ken McKinnon (part 2)
Part 1 can be found HERE Physically the environment of the Western District was always testing, but ignorance was anything but bliss. The following incident gives a flavour. The engine stopped. Soon the forward...
Soldiers of PNG Fought Many Battles – Gregory J Ivey
PART 2 This part of the story of PNG soldiers maintains the rarely-viewed perspective of a loyal, proud, resourceful, and gritty fighting unit – one that any soldier would feel confident to be part...
