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My Dad, My Hero
DOMINICA AREI feel that I haven’t thanked him enough for the many wondrous things and hidden sacrifices he has made whilst he was still alive and so I wanted to write about his memory knowing that he...
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Regrets
LEONIE BAPTISTEThere are two voices Always banging on your temple If you listen carefully, you would hear the two voices Go left! No go right! The two voices are always up for a fight Say yes! Say no!...
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Lost in transition, maybe – but we are not a hopeless case
TANYA ZERIGA-ALONEMOST of us in the current generation are lost in transition - moving from the village to the city we were not prepared for the life we are now living. Our fathers and our grandfathers...
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The Feast of Gloom
IMELDA YABARABreak the moon in half rip down the stars dine with me in this half lit gloomLet’s drink to dejection, bottoms up,relax in the ambiance of hopelessnessbe entertained by the Wails of...
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Two new books from the guy who was PNG's deputy sheriff
KEITH JACKSONCurse of the Lamisi by Baka Barakove Bina, 90pp, $8.50, CreateSpaceHaffies are made; they are not born by Baka Barakove Bina, 38pp, $6, CreateSpaceIT has been a long time between drinks,...
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Floating on the Erap River
SIWIN MIAMIIT was bright and sunny in the middle of the day when the boys and I decided to float down the Erap River on our car tube.We got the tube and followed the river up to Erap Bridge on the...
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At Divine Word University
FELIX BARAKAAt Divine Word University, we meet as friends But you are more like a brother to us When challenges freezes us Your smiling face was our warmth But now we will miss your comfortYou taught...
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The borrower
MARLENE DEE GRAY POTOURAKELVERI checked his bank balance on the Eftpos machine in the main shopping centre at Eriku. There was just a single kina in his account. Payday after payday, it was always the...
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Herstory
PAULINE RIMANUpright sapiens tracing constellations Painting frescoes of migrating ancient quadrupeds Moulting primate kin un‐severs umbilical cord Prostrates before celestial and terrestrial Chanting...
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Life can be cheap & justice hard to come by in remote PNG
PETER KEPASHE was a middle aged woman of about 40, a foster mother of six children, and she was found dead and mutilated in her coffee garden in the remote Mordaula valley of the Simbu Province. Regina...
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Visit Mt Hagen and have lunch with a cannibal
IAN LLOYD NEUBAUER | The New DailyI’VE been in Mt Hagen for only a few minutes and I already feel as though I’ve crossed an imaginary line dividing the modern world from a stone-age one where myth and...
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Major conference will mark PNG-Australia 100 year relationship
KEITH JACKSONThe Papua New Guinea Association of Australia sponsors The Crocodile Prize Publishing ProgramWE have previously reported that, in September, the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia...
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The breath-taking bravado of the BRA's Buin high school raid
LEONARD FONG ROKAIT was during the peak days of the Bougainville crisis in late 1994 that Panguna youngster, Louis Taneavi (pictured), left home to pursue his education at Buin High School, which was...
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CROCODILE PRIZE WRITERS WORKSHOP Register now while limited places are still available. Facilitated by authors Phil Fitzpatrick and Trevor Shearston, this free event is not to be missed if you are an...
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Ku High School prominent in promoting Simbu writing
JIMMY AWAGLKU High School – which will co-host the forthcoming National Literacy Day celebrations in Simbu – is only a recently established lower secondary school.Ku High School is the only school so...
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Simbu gears up for National Literacy Day celebrations
FRANCIS S NIITHE Simbu Writers Association along with Ku High School is gearing up to celebrate National Literacy Day on Monday 8 September when the two entities will host a number of activities...
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Eh, Mr Tkatchenko, why are you knocking your own arts festival?
KEITH JACKSONIF you were to take seriously PNG's Minister for Sports and Having Fun, Justin Tkatchenko, you'd think the Fifth Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture, recently held in Papua New Guinea,...
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We must not ignore the children who are malnourished & dying
FR JOHN GLYNN | We Care FoundationTHE headline on the front page of the Post-Courier last Wednesday, Malnutrition Kills, was accompanied by Unicef statistics which are terrifying in their implications....
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IVY KARUEWhat colour are your eyes? I'm afraid to look, Every time I take a peek They catch me like a hookI feel like you bait me I'm a sucker for that smile, Losing myself in your chocolate brown...
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Those pre-independence years: Revelling in reminiscences
PHIL FITZPATRICKAustralians in Papua New Guinea 1960-1975, edited by C Spark, S Spark and C Twomey, University of Queensland Press, 2014, 339pp, ISBN: 978 1 9219 0243 7, $38.50AS I write this, my son...
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