PNG humour: Kon–Templeit; yu yet skelim na tingim
STEVEN ILAVE SR DURING DECEMBER 2011 a few of us contributed the following piece on an online discussion board in what was an extraordinary off-the-cuff fashion. As the main contributor, I decided to...
View ArticleWriters fellowships also provide the magic of connection
KEITH JACKSON OUR WRITERS’ FELLOWSHIP PROJECT is off to a great start (we hope to announce another two tomorrow) and one of the spin-offs is the connection that is created between sponsor and recipient...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea – where there is no word for slavery
PETER KRANZ THIS MAY BE CONTROVERSIAL - but I ask your advice, my friends. Rose - my Papua New Guinean wife - discovered a video of Gone with the Wind and watched it. She asked what it was about. I...
View ArticleA poet’s journey 6: Using poetic intuition
MICHAEL DOM INTUITION OR INSTINCT is difficult to describe. It is a sense or impression based on some indefinable certainty, like some secret knowledge that you can’t quite put your finger on, or like...
View ArticleThrow away your guns & gain your freedom! Oh yeah?
LEONARD FONG ROKA | Supported by the Jeff Febi Writing Fellowship IF WE WANT TO FAST-TRACK the peaceful settlement of the Bougainville issue once and for all, then we ought to do it in a manner that...
View ArticleClimate Challenger epic voyager arriving in Honiara today
JEREMY INIFIRI | Solomon Star THE CLIMATE CHALLENGER expedition super canoe was scheduled to arrive in Honiara today. The traditional-style open canoe set off from Manus Province in late August with 10...
View ArticleUPNG leadership faces a crisis which could be ‘a tragedy’
In PNG Attitude in 2011 and in June this year, academic DR SCOTT MacWILLIAM, wrote that it was unclear “whether increased attention from the relevant PNG institutions and international aid donors is...
View ArticleMale circumcision for AIDS prevention should be prioritised
JOE WASIA | Supported by the Bob Cleland Writing Fellowship LIKE MANY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, Papua New Guinea is greatly susceptible to HIV/AIDS. Research and studies have done by many countries but...
View ArticleA tribute to my dad, the Rev Martin Luther Wayne
GANJIKI D WAYNE | Supported by the Bea Amaya Writing Fellowship To mark the occasion of my recent wedding, I give this tribute to my dad. I write it as a lesson to fellow preachers' kids, and to any...
View ArticleGummi Fridriksson’s PNG past comes under scrutiny
Radio New Zealand International AN ADVOCATE FOR INDIGENOUS Australians has taken extended leave without pay from the Cape York Institute soon after his role in the demolition of Port Moresby’s Paga...
View ArticleWaiting: a poem of dedication to the people of West Papua
ROBIN SUANG THIS POEM IS A SPECIAL dedication to the Melanesians who are still waiting for freedom in West Papua. It has been a long wait and struggle for the West Papuans who have suffered, cried,...
View ArticleOutbreak of deadly tuberculosis strain is a 'disaster'
PETER MICHAEL |The Courier-Mail (Brisbane) A YOUNG WOMAN FROM Daru has become a medical refugee in Cairns after contracting a deadly variant of tuberculosis. Catherina Abraham, 20, is one of six...
View ArticleThe hypocrisy of mateship, fair go & human rights in Oz
ERASMUS BARANIAK I HAVE DISCUSSED PREVIOUSLY and at length the merits of the Australian values of ‘mateship’ and ‘fair go’ from a Melanesian perspective. I described their humble nautical origins and...
View ArticleHead of the Anglican church is visiting Papua New Guinea
Anglican Communion News Service THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, Dr Rowan Williams, is visiting Papua New Guinea. He arrived today and will remain in the country until Wednesday. Archbishop Williams and...
View ArticleOfficials reject claim that killer tuberculosis is a threat
PETER MICHAEL | The Courier-Mail (Brisbane) HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN ACCUSED of not doing enough to prevent an outbreak of a mutant strain of the killer lung disease tuberculosis spreading from Papua...
View ArticleBougainville stories come flooding back in new play
BRIAN KARLOVSKY | Hornsby Advocate (Sydney) IT'S 20 YEARS SINCE former London Times journalist Robert Cockburn, who was covering the Bougainville conflict, reported for his newspaper and the BBC on the...
View ArticleAugustine Karuvi: an epic journey of a Bougainville rebel
LEONARD FONG ROKA | Supported by the Jeff Febi Writing Fellowship WE BOUGAINVILLEANS STARTED the civil war that killed thousands and it is we who must now lead the younger generation to attain a better...
View ArticlePoetry should be elevated in PNG schools, says top writer
KEITH JACKSON MICHAEL DOM, ONE OF Papua New Guinea’s most eminent poets and winner of the 2012 Crocodile Prize for Poetry, says educationists should ensure poetry becomes a serious part of the PNG...
View ArticleUPNG Press & the virtues of charging for publications
ALEX GOLUB | Savage Minds Blog I SPEND A LOT OF TIME on Savage Minds extolling the virtues of open access publishing, so I thought I should take a minute to extol the virtues of for-profit publishing...
View ArticleA poet’s journey 7: Poetry as an educational tool
MICHAEL DOM POETRY INSPIRES AN APPRECIATION of written and recited words; words which convey emotions and experiences, words which provide insights, inspire us and provide cause for introspection –...
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