A mature response to the rantings of an Australian
MARTYN AWAYANG NAMORONG SOME PAPUA NEW GUINEANS have taken offence to the recent article by Geoffrey Barker in The Australian Financial Review, calling for Australia to intervene in Papua New Guinea....
View ArticleUndersea mining in trouble as PNG queries deal
FRIK ELS | Mining.com SINCE EARLY JUNE the Canadian mine developer Nautilus Minerals has been locked in a dispute with the government of Papua New Guinea over ownership of a seabed mining project...
View ArticleElection: PNG politician nabbed for paying bribes
EOIN BLACKWELL | AAP Papua New Guinea Correspondent NORTH WAGHI MP BENJAMIN MUL [pictured], an independent politician, and some of his supporters have been allegedly caught dishing out funds in the...
View ArticleIndonesians will hunt for fugitive Joko in PNG
THE JAKARTA POST INDONESIAN DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL Darmono has said a team will be sent to Port Moresby to clarify reports that tycoon and fraud fugitive Joko Soegiarto Tjandra [pictured] had been...
View ArticleThe story of the last of the Segera Tutubes
MIRIAM ROKO IN THE OLDEN DAYS Segera Tutubes, or cannibals used to live on the Island of Tatana here in Port Moresby, the nation’s capital. They were violent and aggressive and had no knowledge of the...
View ArticleAt long last, Kiaps to be honoured by their country
IAN McPHEDRAN | The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) HUNDREDS OF FORMER KIAPS who served with the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary between 1949 and 1973 have become eligible to receive the Police Overseas...
View ArticlePolitics without principle; wealth without work....
TREV SHELLEY PAUL OATES’ RECENT ARTICLE, What should Australia do? What can Australia do?, serves to highlight the conundrum faced by Papua New Guinea and Australia. It seems the socio-cultural...
View ArticleMore cut & thrust than you’d get in a typical day
AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSION | Port Moresby TWENTY-FIVE SENIOR KARATE INSTRUCTORS from around Papua New Guinea yesterday completed a two weeks coaching and training camp in Port Moresby. The camp was...
View ArticleIndependents a "powerful force" after election
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of Papua New Guinea’s Institute of National Affairs, Paul Barker, says independent politicians will play an important role in the formation of the...
View ArticleElections: Looking at life through a different prism
PAUL OATES IF ONE STARTS TRYING TO CONNECT the dots, recent articles by various Papua New Guinean writers provide a fresh perspective on PNG electioneering. For outsiders looking in, we ought to try to...
View ArticleThe tyranny of unicameral majoritarianism
NICHOLAS GRUEN | Clubtroppo.com.au AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND HAVE PROPPED UP Pacific countries since their independence. They can go on propping up the micro-states indefinitely but Papua New Guinea,...
View ArticlePNG Attitude's most commented upon articles in June
KEITH JACKSON DON’T ASK ME HOW it happens. I’ve long since stopped worrying how PNG Attitude finds sufficient resources to keep itself going day after day, month after month. But it does. A combination...
View ArticleOh my gourd; guard those jewels with your vegetable
DOUGLAS MARAU | Solomon Star TAKE A WALK TO the Papua New Guinea stall at Honiara’s Pasifika village and you will come across a long unusual men’s traditional underwear. Called a penis guard [sic], the...
View ArticleAdults
JIMMY APIU | Crocodile Prize THE SOUTH EASTERLY WIND left Markham’s vast savannah expanse in its wake as it sped a few kilometres and detoured west, sweeping over the roof of a lone night club before...
View ArticleMilestones flash by as our readership grows
KEITH JACKSON AT SOME POINT IN THE NEXT five days, PNG Attitude’s readership meter will tick over and register that we have had a million page views over the six year life of this blog. We journalists...
View ArticleA secret
BRIGETTE WASE | Crocodile Prize A secret I must keep Within the depths of my mind I bury it deep For if a revelation would cause hurt Tearing a fundamental bond apart A message not to be read A voice...
View ArticleFalse perceptions & the discussion we need to have
JOHN FOWKE THE PUBLISHED COMMENTS of foreign writers and journalists unknown in Papua New Guinea may be annoying to many but are not worth wasting time upon. I refer in particular to Geoffrey Barker's...
View ArticleFalse tears
DOMINICA ARE | Crocodile Prize THE WHOLE VILLAGE WAS FILLED WITH SORROW when their chief suddenly passed away after a long illness. Men and women were forbidden to go out gardening or hunting for a...
View ArticleIn the memory
JEREMIAH TONI | Crocodile Prize This is me It was me and it will be me When I am not here, it will be me; gone This is the rule, it is inevitable That all follow on When their bell...
View ArticleHow the yara siwi got their body decoration
HENRY SAPE | Crocodile Prize A LONG, LONG TIME AGO, when the earth was young and the animals of the world were friendly, there lived two brothers named Hali and Weki in the deep jungles of Sambo valley...
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