Corney was right: PNG drops outcome-based curriculum
Open Equal Free | Education Development Blog IN RESPONSE TO LOW ACADEMIC RATES, the Papua New Guinea government has decided to scrap the outcome-based education (OBE) system and return to the more...
View ArticleBritish Aerospace trains PNGDF pilots in Australia
United Press International | UPI.com BAE SYSTEMS HAS SIGNED a contract to provide advanced flight training to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. The contract builds on a 2011 agreement to provide...
View ArticleLooking for relatives of the formidable Frank Boisen
HARRY COEHN I AM FORMERLY OF RABAUL and was the first Papua New Guinean student that the celebrated PNG colonial educator Frank Boisen took under his wing in the 1950s. Through his efforts I became the...
View ArticleDays of the Kiap: Story of brave Lance Corporal Anis
PHIL FITZPATRICK FOR A LONG TIME the Kukukuku of the Eastern Highlands had the reputation as the most dangerous, aggressive and savage tribe in the whole of Papua New Guinea. The stocky little fighters...
View ArticleDreyfus QC says Namah’s threat 'smacks of politics'
JUDITH IRELAND | Sydney Morning Herald | With AAP A LEGAL CHALLENGE to Australia's asylum seeker processing centre on Manus by the Papua New Guinea opposition leader ''smacks of politics,'' according...
View ArticleShortland islanders concerned over border activity
Radio New Zealand International THERE HAS BEEN A CALL by Solomon Islanders living along the sea border with Papua New Guinea to review security. Leaders in the Shortland Islands want consultations with...
View ArticleRev Threlfall’s Rabaul: The story of a beautiful town
BARBARA SHORT ‘Mangroves, Coconuts and Frangipani – The Story of Rabaul’ by Neville Threlfall. Copies from Rev Neville Thelfall, Unit 91, Nareen Gardens, 19 Bias Avenue, Bateau Bay, NSW 2261 or email...
View ArticlePM on drug suspects’ mystery assignation in Moresby
Radio New Zealand International PAPUA NEW GUINEA’s prime minister Peter O’Neill says the private jet which transited through Port Moresby carrying two controversial Vanuatu diplomatic passport holders...
View ArticleDays of the Kiap: How Papua New Guinea was built
SIR BARRY HOLLOWAY This essay was written by the late Sir Barry Holloway while he was a student at the University of Papua New Guinea in the 1970s. The assignment task was for the, primarily new, UPNG...
View ArticleBHP Billiton’s colonial mentality fuels PNG tensions
Editorial | The Guardian (Communist Party of Australia) BHP BILLITON AND THE AUSTRALIAN federal government have come out swinging in response to suggestions that control of a fund – set up to save face...
View ArticleWorld agrees first global treaty to curb mercury pollution
Russian Television | Additional commentary by Axel Sturm A CONVENTION SIGNED IN GENEVA has legally bound over 140 countries to new laws as part of an attempt to prevent the spread of deadly mercury...
View ArticleFamous Kone Tigers oval is now a sex workers den
KELA KAPKORA SIL BOLKIN THE KONE TIGERS CLUB and its oval was made famous by players like Clarrie Burke, John Kaputin, Bill O’Brien, Sean Dorney, Hugh Davis, Dadi Mahuru Toka and many other tough rugby...
View ArticleFijians: Melanesians like PNGns but a class above
DAVID KITCHNOGE This is an article I wrote way back in 2006 at the waiting lounge at Nadi international airport when I visited Fiji for the first time on a business trip. I shared it with my circle of...
View Article'Gillileaks'& Australia's hypocrisy over Julian Assange
KRISTIAN LASSLETT WHEN JULIAN ASSANGE and Wikileaks released a cache of US government cables in 2010, Australia's prime minister, Julia Gillard, denounced the leak in the strongest terms. She opined,...
View ArticleMelanesian fruit pickers in Australia: the true grim story
PETER KRANZ | In Conjunction with Melanesian Fruit Pickers IT TOOK A LONG, LONG TIME to get off the ground and it was launched with many fine promises. It is the Pacific seasonal worker scheme and it...
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Some PNG Attitude numbers for the statistically inclined. Twitter @PNGAttitude has just passed 600 followers. Google Analytics shows a daily readership for PNG Attitude of 1,200 unique readers who stay...
View ArticlePNG industry earmarked for major reforms in 2013
Oxford Business Group AFTER 12 YEARS OF CONSECUTIVE GROWTH, Papua New Guinea started the new year by focusing its attention on facilitating a broader and more inclusive model for driving the economy...
View ArticleAustralian mining giant ramps up pressure on PNG
MIKE HEAD | World Socialist Website HAVING WALKED AWAY SCOT-FREE from Papua New Guinea a decade ago, after creating a health and environmental disaster, the world’s largest mining company,...
View ArticleGarnaut’s roar a meow; O’Neill unmoved on BHP
KRISTIAN LASSLETT “THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS of the Australian-managed Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea will be felt for hundreds of years”, wrote Greg Roberts back in 2006. By comparison the recent...
View ArticleTaim bilong masta i spak: 3 stories about drinking
KEITH JACKSON THE EARLY 1960S WAS ANOTHER ERA, Papua New Guinea (‘the Territory’) another place and the Highlands still a frontier. In the Chimbu (as we called it then) there were two single white...
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