MEMORIAL NEWS
Silver Muse Cruise to travel close to Montevideo Maru Heard recently—a sea voyage by Silver Muse and part of a long cruise from Auckland to Tokyo, is broken up into various stages one of...
Issue: 2023 3 September PNG Kundu
VALES & TRIBUTES
BEIL | KENNY | OWEN | REDWOOD BEIL, Barry James 14 June 2023 Barry Beil spent 22 years in PNG from 1957 to 1979 and made a significant contribution to its economic development. He...
PNG IN THE NEWS
VIP visitors in PNG Tim Swanston and Stephen Dziedzic of the ABC reported on Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi’s arrival in Port Moresby on 21 May to co-host the third Forum for India-Pacific...
BOOKS & ART REVIEWS
Philip Fitzpatrick The Kiap’s Wife When patrol officer Jack Forrest is transferred from the highlands to the backwaters of a sub-district somewhere on the coast of New Britain in 1965, he wonders what is...
LETTERS & MEMORIES
Gold Coast PNG Club Donation On behalf of the President, Committee and Members of the Gold Coast PNG Club, I want to advise that as one of the recipients of our recent event you...
EVENTS DIARY
A Huge and Very Warm Welcome to Sigrid Yaru! Recently an ask was put on PNGAA’s social media for someone, or a group of friends, to organise the annual Christmas lunch in Sydney this...
PNGAA REPORT
From the Management Committee Hopefully you have all enjoyed the crisp sunny days of winter this year and are now revelling in spring! Our thoughts were with PNGAA President, Chris Pearsall, as he recouped...
48 Years of Independence
On 16 September 1975, the nation of Papua New Guinea achieved its independence from Australia and we, the members of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia, in reflecting on the past forty-eight years,...
Last Post Ceremony
Australian War Memorial Saturday, 1 July 2023 Canberra turned on a beautiful, sunny day for this year’s 1 July 2023 Last Post Ceremony. Held on the 81st anniversary, the Last Post Ceremony remembered all...
My Education Journey from Jiwaka to UPNG
Robert Mek I was born in Gulka (Kimil), one of the remotest villages in Jiwaka Province. Gulka is situated between Jiwaka and Western Highlands Province, so as I grew up, I learned the cultures...
Forest Products Research Centre, Hohola PNG
RB McCARTHY The need for standardisation of PNG woods led to the development of PNG wood science, based on global best practice, following a similar pathway to that of Australia with the establishment of...
A Night Out Beside the Bunga By IAN WILLIS
On one occasion in 1972 I spent an unforeseen night sleeping out in the tangled Rawlinson Range foothills east of Lae. This was after an unplanned stroll with my University of Technology (Unitech) next-door...
Sailing Canoes of Siassi Islands By Peter Worsley
In November 1961 I accompanied Dr Andre Becker of the Department of Public Health of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea on a patrol of the Siassi Islands. The object of the patrol...
What Happened to the People of Papua New Guinea in World War II By John B Quinn
In the Covid-19 lock-down days in Victoria, I spent an interesting time going through some of the volumes of the Official Australian History of World War II, courtesy of the library of the RSL...
A Manitoba Family in Gili Gili: 1925–29 By Katherine Pettipas – Part 1
From 1925 to 1929, Manitoban William McGregor worked on the Gili Gili plantation in the Milne Bay District as the Head Stockman. He was accompanied by his wife, Kate, and his teenaged daughter, Rubina...
