Blood on floor in Canberra as Gillard reigns supreme
STATEMENT BY THE HON RICHARD MARLES MP PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY FOR PACIFIC ISLAND AFFAIRS TONIGHT I OFFERED my resignation as the Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs and Parliamentary...
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7 - PETER KRANZ I WAS BORN IN BRISBANE in 1953, at the Women's Hospital. Don't worry - I was a boy. The next year, after a brief time at Strathfield, my Dad was asked to work in England, and...
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LAPIEH LANDU Dedicated to my better half, my mother, Susan I couldn’t put words to describe you I couldn’t compare you to anything in this world The scent of the most beautiful flowers could not equate...
View ArticleAttack at Numbaira: Don’t fight, we have rifles....
BOB CLELAND I HAD BEEN ON A ROUTINE census, health survey and general administration patrol in the Taiora Division south of Kainantu in 1956. We progressed well from village to village and when close...
View ArticleCase study: Big miners’ contribution to development
MARGARET CALLAN | Development Policy Blog | Extracts THE LARGEST CONTRIBUTION to national development by the big four mining companies in Papua New Guinea (Lihir Gold, Oil Search, Ok Tedi Mining and...
View ArticleO’Neill rejects Ok Tedi lease renewal: time for divorce?
LIAM FOX | ABC PAPUA NEW GUINEA's prime minister Peter O’Neill says he won't extend the lease for the Ok Tedi mine unless there is more government oversight of its major shareholder. Mr O'Neill has...
View ArticlePNG develops touch footie on the international stage
BEN HARRIS | Touch Football Australia THERE WAS PLENTY OF FLAIR and lots of smiles when Papua New Guinea played recently in the 2013 Australian National Touch League at Coffs Harbour. This was the...
View ArticleMy Story: from greenhorn planter to a true man of PNG
8 – DAVID WALL “Ah, little woman, you little know the strain it puts upon a man to be an empire builder” - W Somerset Maugham in ‘Before the Party’ THE ACCOUNT OF MY BIRTH in the accompanying image is...
View ArticleOk Tedi: Latest act in a saga of tragedy & generosity
MICHAEL PASCOE | Sydney Morning Herald WHILE THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT was auditioning on Thursday for a minor job with Ashton’s Circus (they were turned down), real news was breaking to our north....
View ArticleWorld Vision PNG pushes fight against tuberculosis
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL WORLD VISION SAYS EVERYONE in Papua New Guinea can do more to limit the spread of tuberculosis. PNG country leader, Curt von Boguslawski (pictured), says World TB Day...
View ArticleIs TB Australia's problem? Maybe not long from now
SUSAN MERRELL TODAY, SUNDAY 24 MARCH, is World Tuberculosis Day. In Australia, tuberculosis (TB) has largely been eradicated and is at a negligible incidence of six cases for every 100,000 of...
View ArticleMy story: No man could, but the Viva led me to PNG
9 - ROBIN LILLICRAPP I WAS THE FIRST-BORN of dairy farming parents and my childhood years were spent in northern Victoria in a generation recovering from the rigours of World War II. From an early age,...
View ArticleA confused world. Can we be happy by playing God?
GANJIKI D WAYNE | Supported by the Bea Amaya Writing Fellowship “You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free” - Jesus WE LIVE IN A MORALLY CONFUSED WORLD where philosophers tell us even...
View ArticlePNGSDP - a clever deception on government & people
PAUL YABOB IN HIS STORY IN the Sydney Morning Herald, republished in PNG Attitude, Michael Pascoe forgets several key facts in his one-eyed and ill-willed article. Such articles do not bode well for...
View ArticleOld Custard Cock – mastarot & bridge-building isolate
JOHN FOWKE THERE HAS BEEN SOME CHAT in PNG Attitude on Ludwig Schmidt of New Guinea. Allow me to cast some additional light on the subject. The Schmidts were father and son, both Ludwig. The first...
View ArticleMy Story: a creative life of teaching, singing & writing
10 - BARBARA SHORT I WAS BORN ON ANZAC DAY 1939, near the start of World War II, in the Poplars Private Hospital Epping, in the northern suburbs of Sydney. If I had been a boy my father said he...
View ArticleThe light upon the far mountain glows at last
PAUL OATES “Our communal existence imposes certain obligations that more often clashes with the demands of the law… The society is conditioned to protect even the worst criminal” – Sam Koim (pictured)...
View ArticleSonet 8: Dispela Nambawan Meri Tru
MICHAEL DOM Hamaspela gutpela man isave bihainim tok win bilong yu? Hamaspela lidaman na hamaspela bikman tu? Hamaspela man isave harim poret stori bilong yu? Hamaspela man bilong tok singsing na...
View ArticleSelf-development: A new direction for Bougainville
LEONARD FONG ROKA | Supported by the Jeff Febi Writing Fellowship AS BOUGAINVILLEANS, WE HAD TO BE INNOVATIVE during the height of the Australia-backed Papua New Guinea blockade of our island. During...
View ArticleIs stupidity a virus? And is ‘public service’ an oxymoron?
PHIL FITZPATRICK AT DIFFERENT POINTS in my working life I’ve been part of both state and federal public service systems. The latter involved the rather unique arm that was the pre-independence...
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