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Christmas’s Past: The best choir in history
PETER KRANZ | 25 December 2013MORRISET - My Dad was a musician. More specifically he was a choirmaster. We had an old Ferrograph tape recorder and he had some precious recordings that he held in high...
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Christmas’s Past: Reflection, celebration & commitment
BOMAI D WITNE | 25 December 2014GOROKA - Christmas in Papua New Guinea is a time when many homes, streets, stores and churches are gaily decorated and Christmas songs dominate music on radio stations...
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Christmas’s Past: Christmas at Olsobip
GARRY LUHRS | 25 December 2015EX KIAP WEBSITE - Christmas, and the entire festive season, is always a contentious time at the Gentlemen’s Club.It is the cause of more disharmony than a federal election...
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Christmas’s Past: Christmas for atheists
PHIL FITZPATRICK | 25 December 2016HERVEY BAY - I WAS about eight years old when I realised that organised religion was a giant confidence trick.The thing that made me aware of this was my mother’s...
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Christmas’s Past: Jesus Christ, God’s perfect gift to humanity
PHILIP KAI MORRE | 25 December 2017KUNDIAWA - Many Christians around the world have adopted a material and secular meaning of Christmas: giving and receiving gifts to strengthen social and economic...
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This Christmas rekindles thoughts of a memorable trip
Francis and I sign our books for buyers at the Brisbane Writers FestivalDANIEL KUMBON,WABAG - Two years ago, Francis Nii, Martyn Namorong, Rashmii Bell, my wife Julie and I attended the lively Brisbane...
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....and the very bestest Christmas to all our readers
Cover of the PNG primary school paper for Christmas 1967. It doesn't seem like 51 years ago that I edited that fine publication. But the calendar doesn't lie.KEITH JACKSONNOOSA - Christmas Day has...
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Oh how we miss this feisty, jocular teller of legends
KEITH JACKSONBig Pat Levo with the diminutive Alfred KaninibaNOOSA - You’re leaning back after a few Christmas Day jugs saying to yourself ‘my work here is done, I can skive off for a bit’, when...
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Mountains & rivers: solo adventurer gets set to do PNG
Charlie Walker has chosen PNG for his next big adventureCHARLIE WALKER | Adventurer & WriterLONDON - In March 2019, I will undertake a two-month journey through the interior of Papua New Guinea.The...
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I was in the depths of despair when PNG Attitude came to help
The school finished 2018 with just seven students, the eighth is Marlene’s daughter Darhlia. At right, wearing a cap, is teacher David KatakaMARLENE DEE GRAY POTOURALAE - So many kind hearted PNG...
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Empathy & collaboration key to shared global growth & prosperity
Davis CousarDAVIS COUSAR | Independent MailANDERSON, SOUTH CAROLINA USA - It was 9 pm Monday in Australia’s Brisbane airport, and we were headed to Papua New Guinea for the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic...
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2018: An unsettled year for PNG
Ron MayRONALD MAY | East Asia ForumCANBERRA - It was a year of mixed outcomes for Papua New Guinea.A 7.5 magnitude earthquake in the Highlands caused extensive landslides early in the year, killing...
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Sixty-None
WARDLEY BARRYThere was a time whenmankind, manpower and sportsmanshipwere just words, and you can have agentleman’s agreement with any woman.Black and white were beautiful colours,and blue was the...
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Taking risks, trying the new & some advice about screenwriting
Wendall Thomas - author & screenwriterRASHMII BELL“If what you’re doing does not have the possibility of failing then by definition you’re not doing anything new…. If you know how to do what it is...
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Mountain myths from Papua New Guinea
Mount GiluweRAYMOND SIGIMETDAGUA - In Papua New Guinea, in traditional societies, mountains animate a sense of awe and malevolence. And they are also recognised as a source of life, spirituality and...
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Transparency tells us something of its anti-corruption year
Transparency gave its 2018 Anti-Corruption Award to Daphne Caruana Galizia, Malta’s leading investigative journalist, who was assassinated in October 2017. The last words she wrote: “There are crooks...
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Descendants protest museum's removal of Pacific treasures
Richard Parkinson – descendants of the world-renowned anthropologist warn his ''gift of history'' will be marginalisedLINDA MORRIS | Sydney Morning Herald | ExtractsSYDNEY - The Australian Museum's...
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Some people mock & deride refugees. Here’s why you should not
KEITH JACKSONProfessor Henry LowigNOOSA - On Saturday, Father Bob Maguire [@FatherBob] was attacked on Twitter by journalist Chris Kenny, former politician Alexander Downer and once Labor now Liberal...
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The most venomous snakes in Papua New Guinea
Papuan taipanRAYMOND SIGIMETDAGUA - Most people have an instinctive fear of snakes, which is believed to be evolutionary. Researchers think the fear came about as a prehistoric survival mechanism but...
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Wishing our many readers & contributors all the very best for 2019
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