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Tokarara is successfully fighting the school fights
GIORGIO LICINIHOW do we stop school fights in cities like Port Moresby and Lae?The Tokarara suburb in the National Capital District has found its own way. On Tuesday the first batch of Grade 8 students...
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BETTY ISIKIELAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryIn the age of smart technology Evil will rise in detailed chronology Inscribed in such anthology How many will fall short on...
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Not a bad set of numbers: analysing PNG Attitude’s readership
KEITH JACKSONHERE in the luxurious silk-lined penthouse of Attitude Central we occasionally lower the golden dipstick into our mighty blog engine to get a fix on how things are travelling for us in...
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Training for innovation & entrepreneurship in Papua New Guinea
DEBORAH STOKES | Australian High Commissioner to PNGTHE Australian Government is very pleased to be supporting the Australia Pacific Technical College (APTC) and technical education in Papua New Guinea...
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Sijo for the Flame of the Forest
MICHAEL DOMA red Flame / hangs from the heights / in your proud green / forest home.Pride you don’t feel / nor care to know, / you love the glow / of city lights;Fell your trees / and kill the Flame, /...
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PNG's youth speaks out at Lowy 'new voices' confab
JENNY HAYWARD-JONES | Lowy InstituteTHE Lowy Institute's Melanesia Program convened its second PNG New Voices conference in Port Moresby on Thursday. We assembled a group of interesting and passionate...
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Bougainville people taking ownership of independence - writer
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONALAN emerging writer from Bougainville says its people are steadily taking ownership of the process towards viable independence.Leonard Rong Foka was one of the speakers at...
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Internet a right for everybody says Pope on Communications Day
FR GIORGIO LICINIA statement for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Papua New Guinea & Solomon Islands Commission on Social Communications to mark the 48th World Communications DayTHE recent...
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IMELDA GRIFFINAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryAmbungke! Ambungke! your feet are like pine strong and sturdy flat and wide to claim your ground each step you take has...
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The corrosive effect of westernisation on nuptial tradition
FRANCIS S NIIAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Cleland Family Award for Heritage LiteratureAMONG the problems that exist in marriage in Papua New Guinea today are the domino effects of disintegration and...
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Crocodile Prize: The wheels that drive the COG – Francis Nii
KEITH JACKSONOF the many luminous people associated with the Crocodile Prize, one of the brightest stars is Francis Sina Anguary Nii, 50, from Yobai village in the Salt Nomane area of Simbu Province.It...
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The Crocodile Prize: aggregating a national identity
MICHAEL DOMAS a writer of poetry I have had the pleasure and privilege of sharing my work through various media, so perhaps I take it for granted why writing is important to me and to the readers who...
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Steamships reneges on its Crocodile Prize short story award
KEITH JACKSONSTEAMSHIPS Trading Company, which describes itself as having a “pre-eminent position in the (PNG) community”, has at the last minute reneged on a commitment to sponsor this year’s...
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Friend of PNG makes good as Steamships abandons Croc Prize
KEITH JACKSONIN the midst of a storm of social media protest, an Australian friend of Papua New Guinea has told PNG Attitude he will “make up the Steamies deficit” to ensure the planned print run of...
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New voices, old questions and the way forward for PNG
MARTYN NAMORONGDURING the final session of the Lowy Institute’s PNG New Voices conference, I was asked what the solutions are to Papua New Guinea’s development challenges.This is not a new question. It...
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Three birds; one stone – taking major initiatives to Simbu schools
FRANCIS S NIITHE newly-formed Simbu Writers Association is making the marketing of the Crocodile Prize, Simbu Writers Association and Simbu Children Foundation to Simbu schools an ongoing activity.Last...
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Did Steamies breach its own values in abandoning Croc Prize
KEITH JACKSONIN an extraordinary turn of events, it seems that Steamships Trading Company may have breached its own corporate value of ‘integrity’ in the manner in which it reneged on its sponsorship...
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Plumes & pearl shells – the art of the New Guinea Highlands
PETER COMERFORDLAST weekend I attended a series of talks at the Art Gallery of NSW followed by a visit to an incredible collection of New Guinea Highland artifacts collected by Stanley Moriarty.From...
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Australia underestimates impacts of Manus refugee settlement
BERNARD YEGIORAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Award for Essays & Journalism“MY father is from Syria and my mother is from Simbu,” was the response from the...
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At Lowy: themes of exploitation, indoctrination & genocide
LEONARD FONG ROKAAFTER being invited by the Lowy Institute to participate in its PNG New Voices Conference in Port Moresby last week, I reached into my writing project, Bougainville Manifesto (being...
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