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Those PNG colonial conflicts: a short examination of killing
CHRIS OVERLANDADELAIDE - Mathias Kin has written about the killing of Simbu warriors by kiaps in the period from around 1935 to the mid-1950s. He has put forward the claims of various informants about...
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Sorcery: Are education & demonstration parts of the answer?
Dr Betty Etami KokaROSS WILKINSON"Educating people and dispelling the myths around sorcery could prevent further sorcery accusations and result in fewer attacks… I suggested it would be good to do an...
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Fear of change (& China) is driving Australia’s Pacific frenzy
Ed BrumbyED BRUMBYMELBOURNE - The recent brouhaha amongst politicians and the commentariat about the escalation in China’s endeavours to wield influence in Papua New Guinea, the Pacific islands and...
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Seeking the facts of Simbu’s ‘frontier wars’: The Symons Affair
PHIL FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - In early July 1947 the Assistant District Officer for Simbu, Jack Costelloe, received word from Geru, a Karap clan leader from the Kouno area, that Dika men had attacked and...
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Australia frets over the South Pacific. It should play to its strengths
GRAEME DOBELL | The Strategist | Edited extractCANBERRA - In Australia, politicians are keeping up the grand tradition of worrying about foreign intruders, massaging the Oz strategic denial instinct...
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PNG’s informal economy is dreading the Year of the APEC
BUSA JEREMIAH WENOGO | PNG Informal EconomistPORT MORESBY - 2018 looks set to be a make or break year for Papua New Guinea as the country prepares to host the APEC summit in the midst of a looming...
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Australia should not fear Chinese influence, says PNG government
Rimbink PatoERIC TLOZEK | Australian Broadcasting CorporationPORT MORESBY - The Australian Government is becoming increasingly alarmed about Chinese investment and aid — usually in the form of...
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APEC minister Tkatchenko is organising a huge new land grab
EDDIE TANAGO | Act Now! Justin TkatchenkoPORT MORESBY - APEC Minister Justin Tkatchenko’s plan to allow commercial banks to take customary land as security for loans is another huge land grab.The...
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The Kum River massacre - and truth & reconciliation
Kum River battleground not far from present day Mt HagenGARRY ROCHEDUBLIN - After the end of apartheid in South Africa a Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to deal with much of the...
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Insights into dispossession and inequality in PNG
CAMILLA BURKOT | Dev Policy BlogDispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea by Paige West, Columbia University Press, New York, 2016. Paperback, 216 pages, $US36.11....
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Unpaid bills threaten economy as PNG government owes billions
Sir Mekere MorautaSIR MEKERE MORAUTA | Papua New Guinea ObserverPORT MORESBY - The State’s arrears - debts owed to suppliers of goods and services - are a noose around the nation’s financial neck. And...
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Publish and, if you're from PNG, get ready to be damned
John Waiko and Bill Gammage Canberra, 2005PHIL FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - In September 2014, when I was in Port Moresby with Trevor Shearston for the Crocodile Prize awards, we went out to UPNG to have...
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Big Pat – relaxed & offering advice from boroma & fish country
Big Pat Levo & wantok on the Miaru river in the GulfKEITH JACKSONNOOSA - Patrick (Big Pat) Levo – erstwhile features editor and court jester of the PNG Post-Courier (and in retirement back home in...
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Notes on the reliability of hearsay & interpretation of evidence
ROSS WILKINSONMELBOURNE - The discussion on Chimbu pacification has reached an interesting stage through its various manifestations over recent years since Mathias Kin published his initial...
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O’Neill govt plan trashes traditional & colonial land legacies
Rainforest cleared for oil palm in PNGCHRIS OVERLANDADELAIDE - Recently, PNG Attitude has been publishing a discussion on some of the unhappy events that occurred as the colonial regime extended its...
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Some thoughts on writing history the Melanesian way
British troops observed by Motuan people in Port Moresby, 1885PHIL FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - Like a lot of expatriates in Papua New Guinea prior to independence, I commenced a university degree through...
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When Rev Wilhelm Bergmann met Chief Bongere of Kamaneku
Bergmann's "pretty flat space" - the heart of Kundiawa town today showing the infamous 'aircraft carrier' airstripMATHIAS KINAn edited extract from Chapter 3 of ‘A History of Simbu’, a work in...
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A sensible approach is needed to address the ‘betel nut problem’
Governor Powes Parkop addresses the media in front of a sign saying: 'Forbidden: You can't sell betel nut here"BUSA JEREMIAH WENOGOPORT MORESBY - Social media in Papua New Guinea is again raging with...
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The great Ilimo farm mystery. Where are 746 cows & their grass?
Ilimo Farm dairy (thanks to reader for helping out; we hope this is a more recent image!)FRANCIS NIIKUNDIAWA - The announcement by Innovation Agro Industries (IAI) at Ilimo Farm outside Port Moresby...
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LONG DISPELA WIK, MI NAP SALIM SITORI LUSIM IKAM BET LO HAUSIKOver the next few days you may notice a few flutters & stutters with the blog as I spend time in hospital for further surgery on my...
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