Unsuspecting Ipatas earns the title of Grand Chief
DAVID GONOL GRAND CHIEF is a very honourable title. It awarded to anyone who has given all of himself to the course of the nation of Papua New Guinea. He has lived for nothing but Papua New Guinea. He...
View ArticleDays of the Kiap – Sgt Yauwiga, policeman & soldier
PHIL FITZPATRICK ALTHOUGH THEY WOULD BE BAFFLED by modern police methods, it wouldn’t be exaggerating to say that, pound for pound, an old time policeman in Papua New Guinea probably had more balls...
View ArticlePolitical reminiscences: A night with Olowei and Ikini
SINCLAIRE SOLOMON | PNG Post-Courier BARRY BLYTH HOLLOWAY (pictured right late in life) and wife Ikini were with an older, quieter crowd in one section of the Bird of Paradise Hotel, Goroka, but as the...
View ArticleOn a train heading towards Adelaide
MICHAEL DOM Here's a sonnet in acrostic, iambic pentameter, on the run. I like that your cities have garbage bins around so that its easy to dispose of trash. A simple city service that does a heap of...
View ArticleI was the mad, magical school teacher of Watabung
TREVOR FREESTONE DURING MY TERM as a teacher in the Eastern Highlands I gained the reputation of being a little mad. I don’t think I deserved such a title, although maybe I was a little crazy, just...
View ArticleThe many splendid lives of the legendary Frank Alcorta
ROB PARER YESTERDAY'S AUSTRALIA DAY AWARDS made amends for the long overdue recognition of a great Australian. Francis Xavier (Frank) Alcorta has been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for...
View ArticlePNG LNG – tough grinding work with a very big outcome
JOE WASIA | Supported by the Bob Cleland Writing Fellowship THE LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS project in the Hela and Southern Highlands Provinces of Papua New Guinea is one the world class oil and gas...
View ArticleHaikai no renga - memories of Mosbi
MICHAEL DOM Awoken at night; Stray winds bring dirty smells that rain washes away. Daylight is breaking Over the Waigani Swamps; Red hills and gum trees. White curtains billow Bang! Swoosh, bang! Two...
View ArticleOn police brutality & police theft in Papua New Guinea
GANJIKI D WAYNE | Supported by the Bea Amaya Writing Fellowship MULTIPLE REPORTS surface every week of some rogue police activity in our country. Drivers gets ‘accidentally’ shot in the foot. Arbitrary...
View ArticleKevin Murphy, rugby league administrator, dies at 63
MALUM NALU | Malum Nalu Blog WELL-KNOWN PAPUA NEW GUINEA rugby league administrator, Kevin Murphy, died of a heart attack in Orange NSW last Friday aged 63. Murphy, known the length and breadth of PNG...
View ArticleNeocolonialism & the forgotten struggle of West Papua
ANDREAS SCHLÜTER | http://wipokuli.wordpress.com WHEN INDONESIA (under colonialism, Dutch East India) gained independence (declared August 1945, formally recognized December 1949 by the Dutch) under...
View ArticleWake up, PNG, and cast aside frustration & bitterness
GARY JUFFA MP | Facebook PAPUA NEW GUINEA, a land of hope and great potential, of vast resources and opportunities, of an ancient collection of elaborate cultures. The land of a thousand tribes where...
View ArticleDays of the Kiap - Corporal Bosi & the mysterious Mokolkol
PHIL FITZPATRICK THE TOLAI ARE BELIEVED to have originally come from New Ireland. When they settled in the Gazelle Peninsula they pushed out the Baining, who fled to the mountains. Those Baining on the...
View ArticleLiz Holloway pays a loving tribute to the late Sir Barry
KEITH JACKSON IN AN EMOTIONAL NOTE to PNG Attitude, Elizabeth (Liz) Holloway, Sir Barry Holloway’s first wife, has paid a loving tribute to her late husband. “As his first wife and mother of three...
View ArticleThe great Sherlock Holmes New Guinea mystery
ARTHUR CONAN KRANZ Egad! It has been revealed that Sherlock Holmes had an adventure in Papua New Guinea. It has been penned by my redoubtable self after spending many months delving deep into the...
View ArticleBrian Holloway dies: Last expat PNG police commissioner
MAXWELL R HAYES (RPNGC 1959-74) BRIAN HOLLOWAY CBE QPM died in Perth on 23 January after a long illness. He was 85. Holloway joined the South Australia Police as a Cadet in 1943, at age 15, following...
View ArticleMelanesian jurisprudence needed to clarify PNG’s laws
DAVID GONOL THERE IS A DESPERATE and overdue need to develop a Melanesian jurisprudence. Our wise founding fathers saw the need for this, and made provision under sections 20, 21 and Schedule 2 of the...
View ArticleSherlock Holmes in New Guinea: The Preface
ARTHUR CONAN KRANZ IT BEGAN as a fairly ordinary day. Holmes was dozing at the fire. Mrs Hudson was watering the flowers, having cleared the breakfast tray at the great detective’s feet, his Persian...
View ArticleConcern over unsafe abortions in Papua New Guinea
IRIN News | Health & Medicine HEALTH EXPERTS ARE CONCERNED about the number of unsafe abortions taking place in Papua New Guinea. “Nobody knows the actual numbers, but it’s clear the number of...
View ArticleCitizens more scared of police than crims: what’s the answer?
KEITH JACKSON POLICE CORRUPTION AND BRUTALITY has been a hot topic of discussion in Papua New Guinea recently – and PNG Attitude readers have been in the forefront after a hard-hitting article by...
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