Japanese Memorials & Kokoda – Peter Ryan
Unexpectedly there are two Japanese memorials on the Kokoda Track. The first is that erected in 1979 by the Japanese PNG Goodwill Society with the permission of local authorities after it was agreed that...
Issue: 2024 1 March PNG Kundu
The Life of a Young Geologist in the 1960s – MALCOLM CASTLE
The mining industry was going through a boom cycle worldwide with companies like US-based Kennecott Corporation investing in exploration in Australia and New Guinea in a big way, and the idea of the adventure...
Hidden Hazards – Donald Grant
My introduction to life as a lay-missionary teacher at Wirui Mission station, Wewak, on the North Coast of PNG, could not have been more unique. Dutifully, on the morning of 28 January 1959, I...
Crossing the Saruwageds, Easter 1976 Part 1: IAN HOWIE-WILLIS
I left Papua New Guinea (PNG) in August 1973 after three years at Brandi High School near Wewak, and then almost six years at the University of Technology (Unitech) in Lae. Following some time...
A PNG Music Mix in Queensland – M A Uechtritz
What are the odds of two Papua New Guinea-born creatives meeting by chance in the Highlands of Eudlo in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast hinterland? When Chris Cobb stepped inside the door of Bradley Campbell’s shed...
Finding an Invisible Killer in PNG Waters
Jay Maclean The strange deaths of three young children in a small coastal village in the Territory of Papua New Guinea in 1972 did not rate a mention in the Territory’s annual report to...
