Fast Track Teacher Training in TPNG: My Experience
In 1953 I started my apprenticeship as a fitter, at the University of NSW, School of Metallurgy. Here I met Jimmy Monteith, who had lived and worked on the Bulolo Gold Fields from the...
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Pilgrimage to Rabaul: Aussie Col’s Legacy
For a Brisbane family, a cruise to Papua New Guinea’s Rabaul was not just a frivolous holiday, but a pilgrimage honouring memory, family and a father’s final wish. Papua New Guinea has always held...
How and When New Guinea was Won – and the Loss of AE1 By GPO HH Kemsley
First published in Una Voce, journal of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Inc, June 2009 page 46 – with thanks to Jim Kemsley These extracts were taken from the diary of Petty...
Coastwatcher talk, Brisbane
A wonderful collaboration between PNGAA, NGVR/PNGVR Ex members Association and the NSAAQ saw close to 140 people attend the talk today by Philip Selth OAM on Coastwatchers JJ Murphy, Jack Read and Paul Mason....
WW1 Memorial Services in Rabaul.
On the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the ANMEF Capture of German New Guinea and the loss of HMAS AE1, the Anzac Centenary was commemorated in Rabaul with almost a week of events...
