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Best of our new years: When comments triumphed over posts
Henry Bodman (1938-2016) - wrote the first comment published in PNG AttitudeKEITH JACKSON (2011)SYDNEY - This is a tribute to all those commenters who make PNG Attitude such a lively internet space....
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Best of our new years: Smokin' Joe's Moresby encounter
RICHARD JONES (2008)BENDIGO - In the mid-1970s Muhammad Ali's greatest opponent, Smokin’ Joe Frazier, and entourage visited Port Moresby. They were in town for a few days and Joe went a few exhibition...
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Best of our new years: Recollections of a kiap
The late Lloyd Hurrell and Kukukuku manLLOYD HURRELL (2007)TWEED HEADS - The Cadet Patrol Officer - who is usually aged between 18 and 25 when he enters the Australian School of Pacific Administration...
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Best of our new years: A serologist reminisces
The late Dr Peter Booth, first director of PNG blood bank with assistant, 1962DR PETER BOOTH (2009)CHRISTCHURCH - The old hospital at Saiho, 18 miles and 18 rivers from Popondetta. Bush materials,...
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Best of our new years: Gorton was packin’ heat in Rabaul
John Gorton at Rabaul airport in 1970 - he was armedKEITH JACKSON (2010)SYDNEY - 1970 was a year of high drama in the Gazelle. There was anger and violence. The Mataungan Association had stepped up its...
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Best of our new years: The end of the pig kill
Bolga Ingu (Simbu pig kill)FRANCIS NII (2013)KUNDIAWA - Simbu’s most celebrated, friendship fostering, peacemaking, wealth and leadership mentoring tradition, the bolga ingu [pig kill], has sadly...
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Here’s an idea: Imagining a Museum of the Pacific
Chambri (middle Sepik) mask from the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. Michael Pascoe comments: "It does a better job of displaying our region's art than anything I've seen [in Australia]"MARTIN...
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The killing of district commissioner Jack Emanuel
Jack Emanuel GCANDREW LESLIE PHILLIPSErrol John (Jack) Emanuel was a district commissioner in East New Britain when he was murdered on 19 August 1971. He was posthumously awarded the George Cross for...
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Despite problems at the top, we value the people of PNG
Keith Jackson & grand-daughter Leilani at the University of Papua New Guinea, from where Keith graduated in 1975KEITH JACKSONNOOSA - That first Independence Day in Papua New Guinea was organised in...
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The cycle of violence in Indonesian Papua
RICHARD CHAUVEL | John Menadue’s Pearls & IrritationsMELBOURNE - The killing of construction workers in Nduga, and the Indonesian security force’s subsequent military operations, impact quite...
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Pig kill & the early ‘religion’ of the Chimbu people
PHILIP KAI MORREKUNDIAWA - The famous Simbu pig kill, 'bugla inngu' in Kuman, was a celebration of fertility rites at a time when the people saw they had plenty of pigs, bountiful gardens, population...
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The curse of territoriality: Human instincts & their consequences
CHRIS OVERLANDADELAIDE - As an enthusiastic amateur historian, I spend far too much time puzzling over why human history has worked out the way it has. Usually, the facts are not in dispute: it is...
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PNG’s new roads: Paths to progress or devastation?
Most skilled work on road upgrades is done by Chinese nationals from China Harbour Engineering Company. Local communities are employed as labourers and sign-holders (Camilo Mejia Giraldo)CAMILO MEJIA...
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Our forefathers did not invite foreigners to divide our island
A terrified Papuan man is tortured with a machete by an Indonesian soldierDANIEL KUMBONWABAG - Just log into any Free West Papua website and you can view graphic videos, pictures and articles on the...
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Simbu ‘Facebook leaders’ should park their egos & listen up
KELA KAPKORA SIL BOLKINPORT MORESBY - Facebook is the most dominant social media and networking site in Papua New Guinea as it is around the world.You can use Facebook to build your profile or destroy...
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New partnership wants to help farmers supply fresh produce
DIEGO FLAMMINI | Farms.comLONDON, CANADA - A new relationship is designed to help reduce the volume of vegetables that Papua New Guinea imports.Papua New Guinea imports most of its vegetables from...
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Bishops want to rid Catholic church of predator priests
Fr Giorgio LiciniSTAFF REPORTER | Radio New ZealandAUCKLAND - Predator priests will face the full force of the law, Catholic bishops in the Pacific say.In Papua New Guinea, Fr Giorgio Licini said any...
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Sustained guerrilla war only way to loosen Indon grip on W Papua
West Papuan Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM) freedom fighters (Rohan RadheyaCHRIS OVERLANDADELAIDE - Of course, Daniel Kumbon is entirely correct that his forefathers did not invite the division of the...
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Problems for Australia if Bougainville aligns with China
The Panguna copper and gold mine at its peakEUAN MOYLE | Foreign BriefMELBOURNE - The autonomous province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea will head to the polls on 15 June to vote on greater...
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Chad Soper an unlikely cricket find as Barramundis rise
Chad Soper made his PNG debut in the baggy black in 2015JOSH SIM | ABC NewcastleNEWCASTLE - An Australia-based member of Papua New Guinea's national cricket team is confident the Pacific nation can...
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