Today mobile phones, email and internet, make it easy to forget that for almost the first 100 years of New Ireland’s development from the earliest colonial days, it was accomplished without any form...
It was a Saturday in early 1965. I was the Assistant District Commissioner (a Kiap) at Kokoda in the Northern District of Papua New Guinea and as usual on a Saturday I was down...
It was wonderful to see three new nominations for the 2017-2019 PNGAA Management Committee join nominations from former committee members. Welcome to Russell Wade, Yana Di Pietro and Chris Warrilow – joining Doug Wood...
The following is a sequel to the ‘How Australian Coastwatchers turned the tide of the Pacific War’ article printed in the December edition of Una Voce, in which it was told ‘the Japanese...
This is an attempt to write a tribute to a legend, an idol, a visionary, yet one of the most unique humble Yuna men who ever lived. In so doing we ask that ‘Sir’...
CHOW, Sir Henry D. 21 January 2017 aged 83 Sir Henry Chow, born 1933 Rabaul, was patriarch of the Chow family – a long-established and respected line, whose roots in Papua New Guinea go...
THOMAS ARTHUR STEEN 27/06/1932 to 3/11/2015 aged 83 years Tom was born in Leeton, New South Wales the eldest of three children, spending his early years in Yanco where his father was the licensee...
Australian Community Centre for Pacific Nations PNGAA’s proposal for an Australian Community Centre for Pacific Nations, (ACCPN) thus far has been given only support by those most directly responsible. Draft Management Plans for the...
The process of updating the PNGAA Collection register is ongoing and all your donations are welcome. Updated details will be available online and in following issues of Una Voce. In the meantime, PNGAA would...
From 1965 through to 1968 I was the mechanic for Jascar Ltd in Kainantu in the Eastern Highlands. Jascar was a coffee processor and coffee plantation owner and coffee buying company with Mike Collins...
It was a real honour to be selected for the 2016 Australia-Papua New Guinea Emerging Leaders Dialogue. The Dialogue is the flagship event of the Lowy Institute’s Australia-Papua New Guinea Network, which aims to...
In March 1953, a contingent of Royal Papua and New Guinea Constabulary was chosen to attend Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation Parade in London. Approval for the attendance of representatives of the RPNGC was not...
A renowned Brisbane paediatrician whose work led to the fencing of backyard pools to prevent toddler drownings has received the Royal Life Saving Society’s most prestigious award from the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Professor...
IT WAS one of the most callous atrocities of the Pacific war. Seventy-five years ago, 160 Australian prisoners were bayoneted, beheaded, shot or burned alive by Japanese troops – on what was then Australian...
