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Broadcasting in tongues: (9) An Australian foothold
KEITH JACKSONARMIDALE 1976-77 – In May 1976, I had no sooner proffered my resignation from the National Broadcasting Commission than an advertisement appeared in The Australian newspaper for a ‘station...
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Trapped by capitalism
PHILIP FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - One of the most significant impacts upon the Australians working in pre-independent Papua New Guinea was exposure to a totally different culture and lifestyle. This was...
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Loggers accused of dudding Manusians
Logging at the Pohowa project (Ed Davey Global Witness)KATE LYONS| Guardian AustraliaSYDNEY - A Malaysian company that won a permit to clear tropical rainforest on Manus Island has been accused of...
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Call for inquiry after police officer killed
Senior Inspector Andrew Tovere (The National)NEWS DESK| Pacific Media Watch | Edited extractAUCKLAND - Former Papua New Guinea Defence Force commander Jerry Singirok has condemned the killing of senior...
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How we became trapped by capitalism
CHRIS OVERLANDADELAIDE - Neo-liberal capitalism has taken over our lives by stealth. I date its rise from the realisation that ordinary citizens could be offered easy access to credit, whereby the...
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Ambunti, Porgera & the need for give & take
Beautiful Ambunti right on the Sepik RiverERIC SCHERINGKALAMAZOO, USA – Along with my wife Penny, I have served with Pacific Island Ministries in East Sepik Province between 1980 and 1985 and from 2005...
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The demise of regional broadcasting
Justin Kili as a young announcer in 1972 - "Who is the Queen of Papua New Guinea?"GRAHAM KINGYUNGABURRA - “And now let’s spin another disc from the Beatle boys” – those were the words I heard from NBC...
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The battle for West Papua
West Papuan independence leader Victor Yeimo is in hiding (Greg Nelson ACS)SALLY SARA, ANNE WORTHINGTON& VICTOR MAMBOR| Foreign Correspondent| Australian Broadcasting Corporation | ExtractsLink...
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We mustn’t lose our literary magazines
ALEXANDRA DANE| Lecturer, University of MelbourneThis article demonstrates that Papua New Guinea is not the only place where the government has a lack of interest in literature. In Australia it is also...
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Broadcasting in tongues: (10) Landfall in the Maldives
KEITH JACKSONMALDIVE ISLANDS 1977 – First came the telegram from UNESCO in Paris then the letter from a Mrs Stevens concerning the vexed subject of toilet paper.I was sitting on the verandah of our...
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Telling a kiap apart from the crowd
Papuan kiap, Geoff SmithPHILIP FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - I served as a kiap in both New Guinea and Papua. In New Guinea the kiap rig generally consisted of a khaki shirt and shorts, shiny RM Williams...
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Vanilla: PNG’s little known world-class industry
AMY TORI| Prague Post | Edited extractPRAGUE –Founded by Dan Edmiston in August 2017, the Native Vanilla company brings top-quality vanilla products to market that are organically farmed and...
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Could China take over Digicel PNG?
ANDREW CLARK & ANGUS GRIGG| Australian Financial Review | ExtractLink to the complete article hereSYDNEY - Mother nature seems to have designed Papua New Guinea for mobile phones.A land of...
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A soldier’ story
Bren gun carrier fitted with Bren light machine gun and Vickers .303 sub-machine gun (Digger History)ROSS WILKINSONMELBOURNE - Recently I have been involved in a project with a Papua New Guinean...
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The real lords of the flies
The Tongan youths who remained united after being stranded for over a year on a desert island in 1966ROBERT FORSTERNORTHUMBRIA UK - William Golding’s deeply pessimistic book ‘Lord of the Flies’ was...
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The white man's ghost
Laurie Meintjes and family, 1988LAURIE MEINTJESLaurie died on 15 July 2019 at his home in Cooranbong NSW. He was a kiap, teacher, writer and poet. This article, taken from his memoir ‘Pretzel Legs’,...
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Call for an apology from Barrick
Hela Governor Philip Undialu - "The international community will soon know who is telling the truth"HON PHILIP AJA UNDIALU MP| Governor of Hela Province | EditedTARI – There was no need for the Papua...
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If in doubt, shoot it
PHILIP FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - If you watch any imported American police program on commercial television you’d be forgiven for assuming that the solution to any problem is a gun.These programs, with...
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Adventures with bows & arrows
A Menyama man and his bow and arrows - deadly at short distancesSCOTT WAIDE| My Land, My CountryLAE - The primary weapon of choice for the tribes spread out over the Upper Watut to Aseki, Menyamya,...
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James Marape - a year in review
James Marape - over the last 12 months Papua New Guineans have witnessed the depth of his visionRAMOI BIAKWEWAK - Twelve months ago who would have predicted the rise of a much under-rated James Marape...
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