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More hopeless excuses from the government on SABLs
PNG EXPOSED | Edited extractsPapua New Guinea’s Forestry Minister has defended the government’s handling of the controversial Special Agricultural Business Lease system, saying there will be action to...
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11 prisoners gunned down during mass escape in PNG
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONALELEVEN prisoners have been shot and killed by guards in a severe response to a mass gaol breakout in Papua New Guinea.Seventeen others were wounded, and police estimate...
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My Story: The PNG connection, a benign type of PTSD
16 - CHRIS OVERLANDOn 15 March 2013, PNG Attitude began publishing autobiographical profiles of its leading contributors with ‘Arresting cannibals sure beat banking’ by Phil Fitzpatrick. The series...
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We must confront our internal ‘masta’ head on
JOE HERMANSELF-preservation and self-worth begin when we admit and deal with the overarching presence of the demon “masta” planted in our collective psyche. In every facet of our lives, we are seeking...
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Back to Joeys bearing books – couldn’t have been a better return
LAPIEH LANDUST JOSEPH’S was one of my favourite learning spaces. Many of my most enduring memories were created there. As a child, school plays and sports days, excursions and swimming lessons tickled...
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The creation of a poet: some words in retrospect
MICHAEL DOMA VERY important, and still continuing, experience for me was finding and participating in the PNG Attitude blog and the associated Crocodile Prize national literary contest. It is not...
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PNG's market harassers: ‘Every day we are scared for our lives’
ANNIE KELLY | The GuardianEVERY morning, Serah Thomas gets up early and makes her way to Gordon’s market in Papua New Guinea’s capital, Port Moresby. Like many of the women who make up 80% of the...
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A visit to the clinic
RAYMOND SIGIMETAn entry in the 2016 Crocodile PrizeTHE inside walls of the building were spotlessly clean, as if a new coat of paint had just been applied. A notice in bold print outside the door read,...
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Randolph Stow’s Trobriand Islands
SUZANNE FALKINER | Sydney Review of Books | ExtractIN EARLY March 1959, Randolph—‘Mick’—Stow, with two dozen other young cadet patrol officers, took off from Sydney’s Mascot airport after midnight to...
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PNG attacks Australian ‘threat’ at Pacific free trade talks
STEFAN ARMBRUSTER | SBS | ExtractsTHE signing of a Pacific free trade deal in June has been thrown into doubt after Papua New Guinea has said the agreement favours Australia and will damage local...
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You can help this self-help women’s group survive & flourish
KEITH JACKSONTHE Hako Women’s Collective, working in the north of Buka Island in Bougainville is in urgent need of money to pay for work on their new Resource Centre in Ngalkobul Village.The women have...
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PNG ministers in Canberra for talks – budget woes on the table
AAPPAPUA New Guinea's prime minister Peter O’Neill and five senior ministers are in Canberra today for official talks with their Australian counterparts.Asylum seekers, aid, trade, defence and police...
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The mental health impacts of the Bougainville Crisis
HEALTH MEDICINE NETWORK | Edited extractsESTIMATES of the number of war deaths attributable to the Bougainville civil war vary considerably, but a figure of between 15,000 and 20,000 appears to be most...
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My story: Life as a reflection of our decisions & choices
17 - RAYMOND SIGIMETMY full name is Raymond Muso Sigimet. I am now in my mid-thirties and I grew up away from my province and village. Half of my life was spent in the New Guinea Islands.I am the third...
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O'Neill's Press Club address: More candour was required
JENNY HAYWARD-JONES | The Interpreter, Lowy InstitutePAPUA New Guinea's prime minister, Peter O'Neill, gave an address at the National Press Club in Canberra on Thursday. The address was a great...
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O'Neill says Manus 'damaging'; keen to see camp close
BROOKE BONEY & DANIELA RITORTO | SBS with AAPPAPUA New Guinean prime minister Peter O’Neill has hinted he's keen to see the closure of the Manus Island detention centre.Mr O'Neill says hosting the...
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Great tributes as the last Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel dies
KEITH JACKSONFAOLE Bokoi, the last living Papua New Guinean link with the World War II battles of the Kokoda Track, in the early hours of yesterday morningHe came from Manari village on the Track and...
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Road management set to suffer in Papua New Guinea
MATTHEW DORNAN | PNG National Research Institute | ConclusionTHE challenges faced by Papua New Guinea in managing its road network are shared with many other developing countries.Road management,...
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O’Neill says he will quit if corruption case is proved
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONALPETER O'Neill has declared he will resign immediately as Papua New Guinea's prime minister if evidence shows he has corruptly pocketed just one kina.Papua New Guinea's...
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Governor Juffa says he’ll keep fighting illegal logging
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONALTHE Governor of Papua New Guinea's Oro Province, Gary Juffa MP, has vowed to keep fighting companies conducting illegal logging in his province.Mr Juffa and his Oro...
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