JOE WASIA | Supported by the Bob Cleland Writing Fellowship I BEGAN MY EDUCATION at age six in the remote Kwia primary school in the Wapenamanda district of Enga Province in 1993 and moved up the ladder until I found...
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Discovering that death & taxes are the only certainties
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Nautilus says it can beat PNG environment activists
Radio Australia | ABC THE CANADIAN COMPANY, Nautilus Minerals, says it is confident it has support at the highest levels of government in Papua New Guinea. The company is hoping to be the first in the world to mine the...
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Rugby league legend Stanley Gene sets up charity
Hull Daily Mail / UK A RUGBY LEAGUE LEGEND has set up a charitable foundation to tackle deprivation in his native Papua New Guinea. The Stanley Gene Foundation aims to collect donations of clothes, books, furniture and shoes to help...
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Sepik artists create dazzling cultural display in Brisbane
SEVEN KWOMA ARTISTS from the East Sepik have created a dazzling series of paintings and carvings for the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at Brisbane’s Queensland Gallery of Modern Art. The paintings and carvings have been combined within...
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Attitude’s most commented upon articles in November
KEITH JACKSON GOOGLE ANALYTICS HAS PROVIDED some interesting readership results for PNG Attitude in November. On an average weekday we had between 1,100 and 1,200 unique visitors, which dropped to about 800 unique visitors each Saturday and Sunday when our...
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Australian advisers to be appointed to 89 PNG districts
PAUL OATES ONE OF THE RESULTS of the recent 21st Australia-Papua New Guinea ministerial forum was an agreement that paves the way for Australian advisers to be appointed to each of the 89 Districts in PNG. These advisers are intended...
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Morumbi, Michael Aite & the Avaipa mining story
LEONARD FONG ROKA | Supported by the Jeff Febi Writing Fellowship CANADA-BASED BUSINESSMAN Lindsay Semple (pictured) is no new face on Bougainville. During the formative years of the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) he was in the province with his own...
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Australia must heed PNG plea to realign aid focus
SANJAY BHOSALE | Canberra Times PAPUA NEW GUINEA prime minister Peter O'Neill's call for a thorough rethink of Australia's aid policy towards his country deserves serious consideration. On his first visit to Australia since his re-election in August, O'Neill delivered...
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A need for awareness of our Pacific neighbours
JOHN CONNELL | Fairfax Media LAST MONTH MY Sydney University colleagues un-discovered Sandy Island in the south-western Pacific, in the course of their work to get a better understanding of our regional sea-bed. Their research vessel, the Southern Surveyor, sailed...
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Christina Violaris learning centre opens in Alotau
JULIUS VIOLARIS THE CHRISTINA ALEXANDROU VIOLARIS Learning Centre has been opened in Alotau, the capital of Papua New Guinea’s Milne Bay Province,. The building is named after Christina Violaris and is dedicated to her memory. It incorporates a Buk Bilong...
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The true story: Slavery and blackbirding in Queensland
JOHN FOWKE ONE WONDERS AT THE VALUE of spending time putting together factual and objective commentary and opinion pieces for PNG Attitude when other contributors seem to be locked into personal concepts and prejudices narrow, not necessarily valid and apparently...
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High over Madang: the marijuana culture infiltrating PNG
BERNARD YEGIORA | Twitter MARIJUANA IS CHANGING THE FACE of Papua New Guinea society. We now have more red eyed young men and women on the streets who are in a little world of their own. From my sources on...
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PNG’s 12 turbulent months – what really happened
This is an extract from the Fernbergh Lecture given today by IAN KEMISH, Australia’s high commissioner to Papua New Guinea, at Government House in Brisbane TO UNDERSTAND PAPUA NEW GUINEA – the maturity or otherwise of its institutions, the commitment...
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Human rights without morality become human wrongs
GANJIKI D WAYNE | Supported by the Bea Amaya Writing Fellowship BESIDES CORRUPTION, HUMAN RIGHTS in Papua New Guinea is the talk of the town. All PNG laws must include some declaration regarding possible infringement of constitutional rights—our articulation of...
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We've the brains; so let’s put idealism & energy to work
JOHN FOWKE THE PNG NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, in cooperation with the Australian National University, has published a very interesting paper, entitled Papua New Guinea’s economic performance between 1975 and 2008. In Monograph 41 (available here) these facts about PNG’s development...
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Australia’s closest neighbour: a nation in transition
IAN KEMISH PAPUA NEW GUINEA is a country experiencing rapid transition, and the changes underway there have significant implications for both PNG and Australia. PNG was the seventh fastest growing country in the world in 2011 – a year that...
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Canoe of hope: risking the Pacific to bring climate news
MANUAI MATAWAI | Supported by the Chalapi Pomat Writing Fellowship THE DREAM IS NOW REALISED. I had dreamt about this voyage five years ago and started building the beautiful Climate Challenger canoe two years ago. This was the biggest canoe...
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Kerevat National High set to resume its glory days
KEITH JACKSON IT’S ONLY A COUPLE OF YEARS since the long established and much admired Kerevat National High School in East New Britain was facing doom. This great school, which had educated many of Papua New Guinea’s most prominent leaders,...
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NGO report warns of corruption potential of LNG project
RICHARD BAKER | Sydney Morning Herald THE ECONOMIC BENEFIT of Papua New Guinea's biggest natural resources project has been questioned, with a report warning that ordinary citizens risk missing out because of corruption and contracts that favour the lead proponent,...
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Beyond the measure of these shackled halls....
MICHAEL DOM AT THIS TIME IN MY LIFE I realise that my peers and my country, this nation, share a common age group; we are all in our thirties; we are all still so young, with much more in store...
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