30. Reality and imagination
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots It is because of the tendency for false allegations to supplant truth, that I am writing these Snapshots and, in a curious way, an incident on tonight’s SBS typifies what I...
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31. Return to reality: The reform in the 50s of the PIR (Pacific Islands Regiment)
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The summaries of Sean Dorney’s excellent Blamey Oration and of the SMH report on the Papua New Guinea Defence Force, which were in the last Una Voce, refer to a period...
32. A short description of the Telefomin attacks
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots There were many other Father Rays and Don Barretts doing wonderful jobs and, as I have said, I will illustrate what I mean by a couple of quotes from my Letter...
33. A Medical orderly who showed that he had been well trained
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots BMedical orderlies were trained in many different centres and, since the anti-yaws campaign had caused everyone to believe in the wondrous effectiveness of ‘a shoot’, an essential part of that training...
34. Two policemen who showed that they had been well trained
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In the same recommendations I said the following about Constables PaahekiI of Mumuni, Popondetta, and Muyei of Saba, Waria. For a proper understanding of it I should mention that the Telefomins...
35. The Telefomin trials: Two points raised by newspaper reports
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The September issue contained the first of what I intended to be three sets of Snapshots about the Telefomin trials but, because of something unforseen (which I will discuss in the...
36. The kiap’s wife says: ‘It happens everywhere!’
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots I have just described why I feel that this is especially relevant in a sequence about Telefomin but I should also explain how it came to be written. From the...
37. The Queen v. Francis Terence Murphy (Rabaul 3-4 March 1952): Part one – The power to prosecute
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots When I arrived in TPNG, in January 1952, most of the files for the criminal cases I was about to prosecute were missing because a senior law lecturer, resident in Sydney,...
38. R. v. Francis T. Murphy: Part two – The facts of the case
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots There are several levels of ‘facts’ in this case. The first is that, on 3 January 1952, Murphy deliberately threw a plate at a Native; the plate hit him in the...
39. Defence by Gerry Szarka of Timio Sioni (Manus, 8 May 1951)
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In the unnumbered Snapshot at the beginning of page 33 of the March 1999 Una Voce, I mentioned that Monte got all the judges to select a ‘notable defence’ for me...
40. A Nobel Prize endangered by our strict rule about Highland prisoners
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Kuru was a hideous disease unique to the Fore people of the Kainantu subdistrict and research on it led to breakthroughs which solved many medical problems. So much so that the...
41. The reason for the Highlands Rule
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Obviously, the reason for the rule was that such people lack immunity to coastal diseases but there is an additional reason which explains why Monte was so adamant that the...
42. The rule and my reaction at Wewak on 8 April 1954
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In Snapshot 22 I explained how, just after I arrived back in TPNG in March 1954, I was sent to Samarai. And how, the very day I returned to Moresby from...
43. My task as assistant to John Grainger, OiC police, Wewak
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots It may sound odd that I, a lawyer who had prosecuted a record number of cases before the Supreme Court and defended over forty there, should say that I was ‘assistant...
44. The early results of our investigations
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots I mentioned in No. 42 that I wrote a lengthy letter to the Crown Law Officer at the end of my second week on this assignment and these passages become important...
