The message to Alan Jones from PNG: ‘enough is enough’
JO CHANDLER | Crikey.com Shock lock Alan Jones reckons women are “destroying the joint” and money should not be wasted on helping Pacific women. JO CHANDLER invites Jones to come to PNG with her to see...
View ArticleAnnouncing the PNG Attitude writers’ fellowships
KEITH JACKSON IT’S A THOUGHT THAT’S BEEN BUZZING around my mind for some time now. And I believe that, in this case, it’s a good thought. The idea is: how do we (in the PNG Attitude sense of collective...
View ArticleMarcus Bai facing K1 million lawsuit for ‘defamation’
LEAH FINERAN | Gold Coast Bulletin AN OFF-FIELD NRL ROW has exploded in court with fiery former Gold Coast Titans chairman Paul Broughton and wife Beverly launching a $500,000 defamation suit against...
View ArticlePanguna mine not an adequate account of B'ville conflict
SIMON KENEMA | Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies IN 1989 A GROUP OF DISGRUNTLED LANDOWNERS from Panguna hosting the giant Bougainville Copper Mine embarked on a violent...
View ArticleA poet’s journey 3: Inspiration from human experience
MICHAEL DOM ‘A POEM SHOULD BE PALPABLE AND MUTE / As a globed fruit’, says Archibald MacLeish in his poem Ars Poetica [‘The art of poetry’]. Poems are very often inspired by our experiences in life and...
View ArticleFresh efforts to weed out AusAID corruption in PNG
Radio Australia AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA have agreed to step up efforts to fight fraud and corruption in Australia's aid program to PNG. AusAID's director general Peter Baxter [pictured] says he...
View ArticleThe Climate Challenger sets sail for change
LISA HAYDEN | The Nature Conservancy A DREAM THAT TOOK SHAPE over the past two years in the mind of Manuai Matawai, a 43-year-old resident of Pere Village in Papua New Guinea, was realised last month...
View ArticleA poet’s journey 4: Poetic inspiration from nature
MICHAEL DOM NATURE IS A GREAT SOURCE of inspiration for writing poems. By combining nature with ideas from their own experience poets have created great and enduring poetry. An example from William...
View ArticleDense rainforest hides poignant WW2 reminders
MARK STRATTON | The Independent (UK) ANTHROPOLOGISTS ADORE PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Most of this immense country remains blanketed by impenetrable tropical forests while its numerous indigenous tribes pursue...
View ArticlePNG opens its borders to many more Fijian exports
NASIK SWAMI | Fiji Times FIJI'S TRADE WITH PAPUA NEW GUINEA could soon take a new turn following the removal of products listed on PNG's negative list. Fiji’s Attorney-General and Trade Minister Aiyaz...
View ArticleNigel Lalai & the post-war effect: a Bougainville story
LEONARD FONG ROKA The said Bougainville conflict affected us in different ways and at different times as we grew up in the midst of the violence and bloodshed. Here I have a short gossip with first...
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If you are an active Papua New Guinean writer, you may be eligible for one of PNG Attitude's Writers' Fellowships, valued at K1,000. Contact PNG Attitude here for details. And if you are a reader who...
View ArticleWith Australian help, PNG has lost billions to corruption
EOIN BLACKWELL | AAP AS MUCH AS HALF OF Papua New Guinea's A$3.5 billion development budget over three years has been lost to graft or dodgy overseas investments, the head of the Pacific nation's...
View ArticleFirst House of Assembly Election, Yassip Mission, 1964
DAVID WALL THIS PHOTO IS HISTORIC for what it depicts and the memories it conjures up for me. Yassip, and its Catholic Mission, was in the area under the control of the Dreikikir Patrol Post. In 1964...
View ArticleThe chalkie mob that triggered the start of PNG Attitude
KEITH JACKSON THE ASOPA CLASS OF 1962-63 gathers in Canberra today, 50 years on, for three days of reuniting, reminiscence and solidarity. It’s the fifth time in the last 10 years that this group of...
View ArticlePNG Attitude's writing fellowships are off and running
KEITH JACKSON WITH OUR FREELANCE WRITING project in its early days, ten far-sighted and committed readers have already indicated they will sponsor PNG Attitude’s Writing Fellowships for 2012-13. And we...
View ArticleSchools’ crisis: 5,000 extra teachers required in PNG
Radio Australia | ABC SAMSON WANGIHOMIE from PNG’s Teaching Commission Service says there's a nationwide shortage of teachers that urgently needs to be addressed. He estimates that 5,000 teaching jobs...
View ArticleOur most commented upon articles in September
KEITH JACKSON SEPTEMBER WAS THE MONTH when the Crocodile Prize winners were announced (five women emerging as winners in the seven main categories) and when a number of articles by both Leonard Roka...
View ArticleJohn Roka’s sacrifice for the love of his Bougainville family
LEONARD FONG ROKA SINCE 1988 BOUGAINVILLE HAS SEEN many lives lost and much property destroyed in the name of 'freedom'. All the deaths, though unjust, may not be for naught if they result in the...
View ArticleReport dodgy PNG investments says Transparency International
EOIN BLACKWELL | AAP TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL (PNG) HAS JOINED a call for Papua New Guinea's neighbour nations to dob in dodgy financial transactions by PNG officials. The call by TIPNG chairman...
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