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The Positive Woman
DOMINICA AREAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryYou can call me worthless, But I’ll show you how priceless I am You can call me weak, But I’ll show you how strong I amYou...
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PNG students firm in support for dumped vice chancellor
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONALA STUDENT leader at the University of Technology Unitech) in Lae is adamant that students will not return to classes unless the former vice chancellor, Dr Albert Schram,...
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Distinguished PNG lawyer Sir Colman O’Loghlen dies at 97
KEITH JACKSONSIR Colman Michael O’Loghlen, who had a long association with Papua New Guinea as a soldier and a jurist, will be buried today after dying peacefully in his sleep in southern Queensland...
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Emerging PNG scientists learning their trade in NSW
SOUTHERN WEEKLY (NSW)FOUR emerging Papua New Guinea (PNG) scientists have begun a Charles Sturt University (CSU) training program designed to address a critical shortage of veterinarians in their...
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Balancing Act
GEORGE KUIASAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryIt is the woman Who can deliver justice And then only it is niceWoman can protect herself And it is woman In society Who can...
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Searching for Peace
ISHMAEL PALIPALAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryPeace, Peace, PeaceIf peace is on the worlds’ stock market I can rob all the money in the world just to buy more If peace...
View ArticleSijo on achievement
MICHAEL DOMAn entry in The Crocodile PrizeKina Securities Award for PoetryTo reach the height of achievement, ascend with humilityTo know what you understand, know what you do not understandCasting...
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Students fire back as Minister threatens to shut down Unitech
KEITH JACKSONONE might have thought that Delilah Gore (pictured) - having just replaced the hapless David Arore as Minister for Higher Education, Research Science and Technology - might have taken a...
View ArticleDWU on edge after journalism student killed by settlers
KEITH JACKSON | Twitter reconstructionTENSIONS are running high at Divine Word University in Madang after a journalism student was stabbed and killed last night by inhabitants of the Gav Stoa squatter...
View ArticleThe broader context of the murder of DWU student Nigel Laki
FR GIORGIO LICINI | Catholic Reporter PNGTHE brutal murder of Divine Word University student Nigel Laki on Friday afternoon in the streets of Madang will shock the community and shake the nation. Early...
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Coral triangle countries need Indonesian leadership to get moving
ALAN T WHITE & ABDUL HALIM | Jakarta PostTHE six-country Coral Triangle Initiative created to ensure the survival of one of the most critical coastal and marine habitats on earth is at a decisive...
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Warwick Parer, member of famed family, dies unexpectedly at 77
KEITH JACKSONWARWICK Parer AM, a member of the celebrated family that truly graced Papua New Guinea with its name, died early yesterday morning at the age of 77 while recovering from surgery.He was a...
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Touching fingers across the Torres - Tony Abbott to visit PNG
KEITH JACKSONTHIS week Australian prime minister Tony Abbott will make his first official visit to Papua New Guinea since he was elected last year.Mr Abbott’s trip comes at a time of great turbulence...
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Bougainville writer Ishmael Palipal injured in DWU fighting
LEONARD FONG ROKAA REGULAR contributor of poetry and articles to PNG Attitude and Bougainville 24 websites, Ishmael Palipal from Koromira in Central Bougainville, was amongst the students who were...
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Welcome all to The World of If
MICHAEL DOMAn entry in The Crocodile prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryWelcome all, to The World of If! Where dreams are Butts and but’s What-Ifs.Where everything’s If-possible, All your wishes are...
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Paliau Maloat - how one man changed Manus forever
PHIL FITZPATRICKPRIOR to World War II people in the Admiralty Islands lived in patrilineal societies linked by complex trading relationships. These relationships bred a pervasive and stressful form of...
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We’ve done our best against the enemies honest governance
OPEN LETTER TO COMMITTED COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLDWE, the undergraduate and postgraduate students, academic and non-academic staff of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology call...
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Death penalty “no adequate answer” to violence says UN rapporteur
CHRISTOF HEYNS | UN Special Rapporteur | ExtractDURING my visit [to Papua New Guinea], I was informed about the legislative amendments certified in September last year to the Criminal Code on the death...
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Bougainville students frustrated at lack of a university back home
LEONARD FONG ROKAAS SHOCK and fear at the slaying of the Divine Word University’s Sepik student Nigel Laki and injuries sustained by Ishmael Palipal and others holds every nerve on campus, Bougainville...
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Australia’s blind eye while rule of law under siege in the Pacific
BAL KAMATHE resignation of the Australian born Nauru Supreme Court Chief Justice Geoffrey Eames last week will go down as one of the most disappointing moments in the judicial history of the island...
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