MEMORIAL NEWS
2025—50th Anniversary of PNG Independence: How will Australia Acknowledge This? Not many Australians would have a good understanding of Australia’s history in PNG. This is because this history is not taught in schools. Many...
Issue: 2024 December PNG Kundu
PNG IN THE NEWS
PNG’s National Rugby League Bid PNG is reportedly set to join the NRL as its 19th team in 2028, following a $600 million expansion deal backed by the Australian federal government. While not yet...
LETTERS & REVIEWS
Memories of PNG A friend showed me the March 2023 edition of PNG Kundu, and I found it very interesting. Both my uncle, Bob Cole, and brother, Jim Sinclair, happened to be mentioned in...
PNGAA REPORT
Management Committee Update PNGAA 74th Annual General Meeting 2025 The 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia (PNGAA) require elections for the PNGAA Management Committee. Please see the notice to...
From Cannibalism to Crocodiles
Daryl Binning OAM, ACS …. Missionaries to mud men, kudus to Kokoda, lap laps to lakatois—just some of the topics discussed by wantoks at the August luncheon meeting of the Western Australian branch of...
Jumbo on Parade
JOHN BARNES OAM In 1973, the South Pacific Brewery in Lae, where I was working at the time, set about hiring Jumbo, an Asian elephant from an Australian animal park and bringing it to...
Exploring New Guinea in the 1930s
S Warren Carey AO In September 1934, any thought of going to New Guinea had never entered my mind. I was well settled in my geological field work in the Werris Creek region and...
The Saruwageds Revisited
Martin Kerr—Ex-Kiap 1964 Can I offer some clarification about the Saruwageds, and who crossed them and when? The role of New Guinea’s generation of ‘Europeans’ should not be dismissed as pure and destructive colonialism...
Hako Women’s Collective Association Inc. Celebrating 20 Years
Marilyn Havini AM I was virtually dragooned into forming the Hako Women’s Collective (HWC) in 2004. It occurred this way … on holidays in Bougainville for a Christmas break from teaching visual arts at...
Remembering Prue Clarke OAM
ROBERT PARER Prue Clarke OAM, who passed in August 2022, wrote to me two years earlier about her parents, Agnes and Kendall ‘Ken’ Frank, and other interesting family members. Her mother, Agnes, worked at...
Our Time in PNG: and How I Became a Historian There
Ian Howie-Willis From the time I was five years old, I wanted to go to Papua New Guinea. That was in 1943, the year the Australian Army recaptured Lae, Salamaua and Finschhafen from the...
Of Dolphins and Men (and women and children)
Chips Mackellar Ever seen that 1957 movie, Boy on a Dolphin, with Sophia Loren and Alan Ladd? The title song sung by Julie London stated: There’s a tale that they tell of a dolphin...
Planting Memories:A Settler’s Life on the Sogeri Plateau
Anthea Matley At the beginning of September 2018, long after my parents had passed away, I said to my husband, Peter: ‘I want to go back to New Guinea. Do you think we can...
The Story of the Wartime Kokoda Trail: Sorting Fact from Fiction
Part Two: Peter Jesser This article continues from the excerpt published in PNG Kundu, June 2024. The Way North from Port Moresby One of the reasons that there had never been a track across...
