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This section features new books about Papua New Guinea and reviews, art and craft exhibitions, interviews of interest to members and information for authors, artists and craftspeople—please send your articles and photos to editor@pngaa.net...

The exotic and fascinating country — and Australia’s colonial past there — is out of sight and out of mind to most Australians. We should turn that around. Australia never spent a great deal...

Benson Saulo couldn’t be prouder of his Dad. The father of Australia’s next Consul-General to the USA is a Papua New Guinean, born on a remote beach in New Ireland, who came to Australia...

The morning of 12 February 1970 saw Joy and me winging our way from Brisbane to Port Moresby, a three-hour trip that had us scheduled to touch down at midday. We arrived pretty much...

The final Japanese surrender in PNG came one month after VP Day, on 15 August 1945—seventy-five years ago. It marked the end of the war against Japan in the Pacific and the end of...

With specials thanks to Gaynor Kaad, for her major contribution and generous assistance Frederick Peter Christian Kaad, OBE, we salute you with a tribute of admiration and respect from the members on 12 September...

I was born in Toowoomba in 1940 to a farming family. My mother had plans for me, but my father had a practical bent, and after spending time at Toowoomba Grammar I left school...

This is a short, and probably incomplete, history of kiaps and the Antarctic. Around 1975, when Papua New Guinea gained Independence, many kiaps began to consider their future job prospects. Contract kiaps, in particular,...

Featuring commentaries about previously published articles and news items, along with opinions of interest to PNGAA members. Also included are enquiries from those who require assistance with their research or finding someone from the...

The Rabaul & Montevideo Maru Society was  established in 2009 and integrated into the PNGAA  in 2013. The society encourages students and adults to explore the significance of WWII in the Papua New Guinea...

Fred Pratt is a surveyor and engineer who lived and worked in PNG from 1961 to 2014. He worked at Ok Tedi over the period 1969–83, and again briefly in 2014, and tells the...

Notice of Annual General Meeting and of Motion for Special Resolution 29 October 2020 THE 69th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Incorporated will be held in Sydney on...

FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, on 16 September 1975, the nation of Papua New Guinea achieved its independence from Australia and we, the members of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia, are proud of our...

As well as PNGAA events, members of the  Management Committee continue to network on  your behalf, attending a wide range of events and  activities, and encouraging new members and  possible partnerships to keep our...

‘And now let’s spin another disc from the Beatle boys’—those were the words I heard from NBC announcer, Cathy Garoa, when I first tuned in my new radio-cassette player in early 1980. Where I...

‘Karabau em i dai pinis!’ (The buffalo is dead!) the men shouted with great excitement. At the time I was a brand new ‘didiman’ and had been given instructions to shoot a buffalo. We...

My first task this fateful day in September 1964 entailed flying a DCA aerodrome inspector from Goroka to Nondugl in the Cessna 185. Though my intention was to wait at Nondugl while the inspector...

BENJAMIN, Max       -       15 July 2020, aged 72 Max Benjamin trained as an agri-culturalist at Muresk Agricultural College at Northam, east of Perth in Western Australia. He went to West...