Discovering that death & taxes are the only certainties
JOE WASIA | Supported by the Bob Cleland Writing Fellowship I BEGAN MY EDUCATION at age six in the remote Kwia primary school in the Wapenamanda district of Enga Province in 1993 and moved up the...
View ArticleNautilus says it can beat PNG environment activists
Radio Australia | ABC THE CANADIAN COMPANY, Nautilus Minerals, says it is confident it has support at the highest levels of government in Papua New Guinea. The company is hoping to be the first in the...
View ArticleRugby league legend Stanley Gene sets up charity
Hull Daily Mail / UK A RUGBY LEAGUE LEGEND has set up a charitable foundation to tackle deprivation in his native Papua New Guinea. The Stanley Gene Foundation aims to collect donations of clothes,...
View ArticleSepik artists create dazzling cultural display in Brisbane
SEVEN KWOMA ARTISTS from the East Sepik have created a dazzling series of paintings and carvings for the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at Brisbane’s Queensland Gallery of Modern Art....
View ArticleAttitude’s most commented upon articles in November
KEITH JACKSON GOOGLE ANALYTICS HAS PROVIDED some interesting readership results for PNG Attitude in November. On an average weekday we had between 1,100 and 1,200 unique visitors, which dropped to...
View ArticleAustralian advisers to be appointed to 89 PNG districts
PAUL OATES ONE OF THE RESULTS of the recent 21st Australia-Papua New Guinea ministerial forum was an agreement that paves the way for Australian advisers to be appointed to each of the 89 Districts in...
View ArticleMorumbi, Michael Aite & the Avaipa mining story
LEONARD FONG ROKA | Supported by the Jeff Febi Writing Fellowship CANADA-BASED BUSINESSMAN Lindsay Semple (pictured) is no new face on Bougainville. During the formative years of the Autonomous...
View ArticleAustralia must heed PNG plea to realign aid focus
SANJAY BHOSALE | Canberra Times PAPUA NEW GUINEA prime minister Peter O'Neill's call for a thorough rethink of Australia's aid policy towards his country deserves serious consideration. On his first...
View ArticleA need for awareness of our Pacific neighbours
JOHN CONNELL | Fairfax Media LAST MONTH MY Sydney University colleagues un-discovered Sandy Island in the south-western Pacific, in the course of their work to get a better understanding of our...
View ArticleChristina Violaris learning centre opens in Alotau
JULIUS VIOLARIS THE CHRISTINA ALEXANDROU VIOLARIS Learning Centre has been opened in Alotau, the capital of Papua New Guinea’s Milne Bay Province,. The building is named after Christina Violaris and is...
View ArticleThe true story: Slavery and blackbirding in Queensland
JOHN FOWKE ONE WONDERS AT THE VALUE of spending time putting together factual and objective commentary and opinion pieces for PNG Attitude when other contributors seem to be locked into personal...
View ArticleHigh over Madang: the marijuana culture infiltrating PNG
BERNARD YEGIORA | Twitter MARIJUANA IS CHANGING THE FACE of Papua New Guinea society. We now have more red eyed young men and women on the streets who are in a little world of their own. From my...
View ArticlePNG’s 12 turbulent months – what really happened
This is an extract from the Fernbergh Lecture given today by IAN KEMISH, Australia’s high commissioner to Papua New Guinea, at Government House in Brisbane TO UNDERSTAND PAPUA NEW GUINEA – the maturity...
View ArticleHuman rights without morality become human wrongs
GANJIKI D WAYNE | Supported by the Bea Amaya Writing Fellowship BESIDES CORRUPTION, HUMAN RIGHTS in Papua New Guinea is the talk of the town. All PNG laws must include some declaration regarding...
View ArticleWe've the brains; so let’s put idealism & energy to work
JOHN FOWKE THE PNG NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, in cooperation with the Australian National University, has published a very interesting paper, entitled Papua New Guinea’s economic performance between...
View ArticleAustralia’s closest neighbour: a nation in transition
IAN KEMISH PAPUA NEW GUINEA is a country experiencing rapid transition, and the changes underway there have significant implications for both PNG and Australia. PNG was the seventh fastest growing...
View ArticleCanoe of hope: risking the Pacific to bring climate news
MANUAI MATAWAI | Supported by the Chalapi Pomat Writing Fellowship THE DREAM IS NOW REALISED. I had dreamt about this voyage five years ago and started building the beautiful Climate Challenger canoe...
View ArticleKerevat National High set to resume its glory days
KEITH JACKSON IT’S ONLY A COUPLE OF YEARS since the long established and much admired Kerevat National High School in East New Britain was facing doom. This great school, which had educated many of...
View ArticleNGO report warns of corruption potential of LNG project
RICHARD BAKER | Sydney Morning Herald THE ECONOMIC BENEFIT of Papua New Guinea's biggest natural resources project has been questioned, with a report warning that ordinary citizens risk missing out...
View ArticleBeyond the measure of these shackled halls....
MICHAEL DOM AT THIS TIME IN MY LIFE I realise that my peers and my country, this nation, share a common age group; we are all in our thirties; we are all still so young, with much more in store...
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