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2024 1 March PNG Kundu


Matapui Part 1: EKKE BEINSSEN

It is late July 1929. A leaden heat, saturated with moisture, broods over Salamaua, the harbour town of the goldfields of New Guinea. I am waiting on the verandah of the only guesthouse. Like...

Memorial Service in Japan – Peter Ryan

Recently I was invited as a special guest to a moving ceremony in Kochi - on the island of Shikoku, Japan. This ceremony was the Japan/New Guinea War Veterans Memorial Service, conducted by the...

Fireworks at Wau – Ross Lockyer

Jim Riley and I wandered about the New Guinea countryside and into the jungle at any opportunity, visiting villages, mission stations, gold sluicing operations, the old gold dredges and anything else that looked interesting....

Destination PNG 1972 – Deryck Thompson

In late 1971 there was a notice in the Australian press advertising positions available as Assistant Patrol Officers in Papua New Guinea.  I applied, and in my interview in Melbourne, I was told that...

The Skull – Peter Uechtritz

Our plantation, ‘Sum Sum’, is situated on a lonely stretch of the south-east coast of New Britain. Our nearest neighbours live twenty miles in one direction and thirty miles in the other. Native tracks...

CSIRO Surveys in Papua New Guinea – Chris Warrillow

Ken Granger, in his three-part account of the above, described some of the trials and tribulations of providing logistic- and transport-support for a group of scientists and other professionals who spent time in remote...

PNGAA REPORT

Management Committee Update 2024 began at pace for the PNGAA Management Committee which had its inaugural meeting on 10 January with members hooked in from Queensland, NSW, Victoria and Western Australia! The following week...

EVENTS DIARY

Sydney - PNGAA Christmas Lunch A small but joyful group of members attended the Sydney Christmas function on 2 December 2023 at the Waterview function centre at Bicentennial Park. Being a very casual affair...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

PNG’s Constitution Belated congratulations on the article about the PNG Constitution by Judge Kerr in your September 2023 edition. From his tenure as Law Faculty Dean at UPNG up to his current ADF review,...

BOOKS & ART REVIEWS

R Wally Johnson & Neville A Threlfall Return to Volcano Town—Reassessing the 1937–1943 Eruptions at Rabaul This is an expanded, more detailed version of the book published by the same authors in 1985—Volcano Town:...

PNG IN THE NEWS

Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport Papua New Guinea’s second international airport was opened on 2 October 2023 by Prime Minister James Marape. The redevelopment of Nadzab began in November 2019 with the assistance of a...

VALES & TRIBUTES

REGAN | WEBER | YOUNG NELSON, Kieran 7 February 2024 We are sad to advise that Kieran passed away at Greenslopes Hospital in Brisbane on 7 February 2024. He was a wonderful wantok/friend to many...

MEMORIAL NEWS

Silentworld Foundation Commemorative Dinner with the Australian Prime Minister A commemorative dinner was held on Monday 27 November 2023 in the Aircraft Hall at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to honour all those...

A chain of eight cells of the killer alga, highly magnified

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...

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...

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...

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...

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